ChainCatcher news, the decentralized cloud computing platform Swan Chain recently announced the completion of a new round of financing worth millions of dollars, led by the Optimism Foundation with an investment of $850,000, while early investors such as Waterdrip Capital continued to increase their investments.Swan Chain is an AI DePIN infrastructure project built on the OP Stack, pioneering the integration of Web3 and AI by providing comprehensive solutions covering storage, computing, bandwidth, and payment. Previous rounds of investors include Binance Labs, SNZ, Chain kink, Protocol Labs, and others.It is reported that the Swan Chain mainnet was launched in early July, currently boasting over 150 ecosystem partners and more than 100 AI applications. The project team plans to launch the SWAN token in the second half of this year to further enhance the ecosystem and incentive mechanisms.

ChainCatcher news, May 17, according to The Wall Street Journal, AI cloud computing startup CoreWeave, supported by Nvidia, has raised $7.5 billion from investors including Bain Capital, Carlyle Group, and BlackRock, making this financing one of the largest private debt financings in history.Two weeks ago, CoreWeave had just completed a round of $1.1 billion in equity financing, with a valuation of $19 billion. As of the end of last year, the company had 14 data centers and plans to double that number to 28 data centers by the end of this year.

ChainCatcher news, A-share listed company Zhidu Co., Ltd. (000676) announced that it is expected to turn from profit to loss in 2022, with a loss amounting to 305 million to 395 million yuan, and plans to make a total impairment provision of 560 million yuan. Among them, Zhidu Co., Ltd. stated that its subsidiary Zhidu Investment (Hong Kong) Co., Ltd. has signs of impairment for the Bitcoin generated from purchasing cloud computing power services from Bitmain, and the expected recoverable amount is lower than its book value. Therefore, Zhidu Co., Ltd. has made an impairment provision of 63.1832 million yuan. (Source link)

ChainCatcher news, Binance announced that a new batch of Bitcoin cloud mining products is now online. Users can now purchase computing power by subscribing to cloud computing products and start accumulating mining rewards in their funding accounts. The product is now open for subscription, while supplies last, and mining is expected to start on December 4 at 12:00. (Source link)

链捕手消息，A股上市公司智度股份在近日公布的2021年年度报告中表示，去年其子公司智度香港公司于中国大陆以外地区向向比特大陆公司（BitMaintech）购买比特币云算力服务，相关成本为9,105.88万元，并将其归于无形资产范畴内。据悉，该公司主营业务为移动互联网流量的聚合和经营。（来源链接）

链捕手消息，云算力项目 BEST 宣布完成 100 万美元首轮融资， Infinity Labs、Hotbit Labs、OasisCapital、7 O'Clock Foundation、PolkaFund 等参投。 BEST 是由伟斯矿业、探道矿工等矿业企业联合打造的新型算力通证体系，也是第一个混合算力 Token(BTC +ETH)。BEST 旨在打通整个区块链矿业体系，建立集算力金融、矿业借贷、矿业保险和跨链生态等为一体化的去中化金融生态，是算力币 2.0 赛道将创新金融与矿业生态结合的潜力项目。

链捕手消息，据官方博客，比特币技术公司Blockstream为非美国投资者推出云算力代币Blockstream Mining Note（BMN） 。由BMN开采的比特币在其三年期末交付给最终代币持有者之前会先冻结，通过将可交易的代币打包，与传统的物理采矿基础设施投资相比，BMN为投资者提供了更大的灵活性-投资者可以通过在二级市场上交易BMN（取决于市场流动性）来更轻松地调整其对比特币挖矿的敞口。 官方表示，将于2021年4月7日开始销售，自BMN采矿业务开始起为期36个月，其最低投资额约为20万欧元（约合24万美元），或等值的比特币BTC，L-BTC或USDT。 据悉，Blockstream是业内第一家旨在扩大比特币协议层功能的公司，主导研发侧链的扩展机制，以连通比特币区块链与其它竞争币区块链。Blockstream拥有一支全明星开发团队，包括比特币核心开发者Gregory Maxwell，Jonathan Wilkins等。

链捕手消息，第九城市（Nasdaq: NCTY）今日宣布，已经与运营数字货币挖矿服务平台“算力互联”的杭州酸梨科技有限公司签定具有法律效力的备忘录，九城将以换股方式收购算力互联70%的股份，收购对价相当于700万元美元。算力互联累计管理矿机数量超过40000台，累计算力超过591P，累计管理资产规模超过3亿元人民币。 此前消息，第九城市宣布已和五家比特币矿机所有者签署了具有法律约束力的谅解备忘录（MOU），通过发行 A 类普通股购买比特币矿机，交易完成后九城预计将拥有 2.6 万台比特币矿机，算力约为 549 PH/S，约占全球算力的 0.36%。