ChainCatcher news, cloud service provider and Ethereum mining company CoreWeave announced the completion of a $221 million Series B funding round, led by Magnetar Capital, with participation from Nvidia, former GitHub CEO Nat Friedman, and former Apple executive Daniel Gross. Magnetar contributed $111 million, with the remaining investment shared among Nvidia, Friedman, and Gross. A spokesperson for Nvidia stated that this investment represents a "deepening" of its partnership with CoreWeave.CoreWeave CEO Mike Intrator stated that this funding round gives CoreWeave a pre-money valuation of $2 billion, bringing the company's total funding to $371 million, which will be used to support CoreWeave's expansion of data centers in the U.S., with two new centers set to open this year. CoreWeave currently operates 5 data centers in North America. (source link)

Chain Catcher news, The Block data shows that with the completion of the Ethereum merge, the income of Ethereum miners and staking validators in September was approximately $406.86 million, a month-on-month decrease of 51.7%. Most of the income came from miner subsidies ($298.5 million), with a small portion from staking income ($72.02 million), transaction fees ($22.28 million), and block rewards ($12.7 million). (Source link)