According to Bloomberg, AI infrastructure company Verda completed a US$189 million financing round led by Emergence Capital, with participation from Super Micro Computer and others, at a post-financing valuation of at least US$1 billion.
On-chain lending protocol USD.AI announced a USD 128.9 million GPU financing facility to support an undisclosed borrower in deploying 32 NVIDIA GB200 NVL72 systems in Canada.
AI agent startup Ema announced the completion of 77000000 USD Series B financing round, led by Creaegis, with Accel and Section 32 and Prosus participating in the follow-on investment.
According to reports, Chicago-based AI startup Go.AI completed 85 million USD in Series A financing, bringing its cumulative financing to 90 million USD. The funds are intended to expand the engineering team and develop the market among compliance-focused institutions.
Atum announced the completion of 13.5 million USD in financing led by Variant, with participation from institutions including PayPal Ventures; the valuation and use of funds were not disclosed.
Justin Sun stated on social media that HTX has listed a batch of new perpetual contracts for traditional financial assets, but did not disclose the specific underlying assets or contract parameters.
SoftBank has begun marketing a bond transaction exceeding 11000000000 USD, comprising USD and EUR tranches, to fund its commitment to OpenAI and additional AI M&A.
Jefferson said the Federal Reserve's discount window can lend to banks when needed and, together with standing repo operations, ease pressure in funding markets.
China Asset Management (Hong Kong) said that it and Standard Chartered Bank and others completed Hong Kong's first digital-asset investment use case using HKDAP, exploring coordination between Hong Kong dollar stablecoins and digital financial assets within a regulatory framework.