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The tokenized financial market infrastructure Digital Asset Clearing Center (DACC) announced the completion of a $10 million strategic financing, with participation from Conflux, Global InfoTech, Fosun International, Blockstone, Avior Capital, Fintech World, Satoshi Ventures, and BridgeTower. DACC currently provides end-to-end "Clearing-as-a-Service" for financial institutions, and the new funds will support its construction of compliant financial settlement and clearing infrastructure.

According to Aastocks, the tokenized financial market infrastructure Digital Asset Clearing Center (DACC) announced the completion of a $10 million strategic financing, with participation from Conflux, Global InfoTech, Fosun International, Blockstone, Avior Capital, Fintech World, Satoshi Ventures, and BridgeTower.DACC currently provides end-to-end "Clearing-as-a-Service" for financial institutions, and the new funds will support its construction of compliant financial settlement and clearing infrastructure.

According to a report by the Wall Street Journal cited by Jinshi, Anthropic is seeking to raise $30 billion in refinancing, with the artificial intelligence lab absorbing most of the venture capital funds.

The BNB ecosystem decentralized finance platform Eleutheria announced the completion of a $5 million strategic round of financing, with participation from Alpha Capital, and valuation information has not yet been disclosed.The new funds will support its development of on-chain financial services through trustless code-driven DeFi and immutable smart contracts.

According to CoinDesk, Nasdaq-listed company SUI Group and London hedge fund Karatage jointly led a $15 million financing round for Nof1, an AI research lab focused on financial markets. The two previously also partnered with TwinPath Ventures to invest in Recursive Superintelligence, a self-evolving AI startup valued at over $4 billion.Both investments are based on the same core judgment: autonomous AI agents will become the core infrastructure of the investment field in the future, and companies that establish training environments today may dominate the future financial landscape.

Strategy's preferred stock STRC recorded a record trading volume on Thursday, with a transaction amount reaching $1.53 billion, more than quadrupling the average over the past 30 days. Reports indicate that this peak in trading mainly occurred on the eve of the ex-dividend date, with a large number of trades priced at or above the $100 par value level. STRC currently offers an annualized cash dividend of approximately 11.5%, paid monthly.The high trading volume propelled Strategy to complete a new round of Bitcoin accumulation through its ATM (at-the-market) financing mechanism, purchasing approximately 11,707 BTC, allowing the company to continue expanding its position as the largest publicly traded Bitcoin holder in the world. Market data shows that STRC slightly retreated by about 1% in pre-market trading after entering ex-dividend trading, approaching the trading range just below $100, consistent with the usual price adjustment pattern for dividend-paying assets after the ex-dividend date. During the same period, the price of Bitcoin slightly weakened to around $80,500, and Strategy's common stock also fell by about 2%, reflecting the continued significant correlation between cryptocurrency assets and the company's stock price.

According to the Financial Times, several large technology companies, including Alphabet and Amazon, are accelerating their entry into the global bond market, raising funds through large-scale overseas bond issuance to support the expansion of artificial intelligence infrastructure and computing power.The report states that this round of financing activities has reached a new high in recent years, reflecting the increasing demand for long-term capital expenditures among tech giants in the AI race, particularly focused on data centers, computing clusters, and cloud infrastructure construction.Analysts believe that against the backdrop of high interest rates, companies are choosing to optimize their financing structure globally, diversifying funding costs and term risks through multi-currency debt markets, further strengthening their capacity for investment in AI infrastructure.

According to the Financial Times, Anthropic has reached a term sheet agreement for a $30 billion financing round, which will bring the company's valuation to $900 billion, with the deal expected to close as early as this month.

According to CoinDesk, crypto wallet infrastructure Turnkey has completed a $12.5 million strategic financing, bringing the total funding to over $65 million. Major investors include Archetype, Circle Ventures, and Sequoia Capital.The new funds will primarily be used for the development and release of the digital asset security computing product Turnkey Verifiable Cloud.

According to CoinDesk, Los Angeles-based stablecoin-driven digital bank Fasset announced the completion of a $51 million Series B financing round, with investors including Japan's SBI Group, Investcorp, and Turkish asset management company Arz Portföy. The valuation for this round has not been disclosed.Fasset covers over 50 payment channels across Asia, Africa, and the Middle East through stablecoin technology, serving over 1,000 small and medium-sized enterprises in 125 countries, with an annual transaction volume exceeding $32 billion. The company plans to use the funds from this round to expand into new markets, develop loan and trade financing products, and expand its proprietary stablecoin payment and custody infrastructure "Own Network." Additionally, Fasset has recently partnered with Tether, the issuer of USDT, to launch a gold-backed digital bank card.

According to CoinDesk, hardware wallet manufacturer Ledger has suspended its plans to go public in the U.S. due to unfavorable market conditions. Sources say that Ledger had discussions with investment banks such as Goldman Sachs, Jefferies, and Barclays about an IPO in the U.S. this year, with a potential valuation of around $4 billion, but has not yet submitted an S-1 registration document to the SEC. The company is evaluating other options, including private financing.The report points out that after several crypto companies go public in 2025, many institutions, including Kraken, have postponed their IPOs due to weakening token prices, declining trading volumes, and stock market volatility. Additionally, the only crypto-native company that went public in 2026, BitGo, has seen its stock price drop about 36% below its offering price.

According to The Block, Bitwise Chief Investment Officer Matt Hougan pointed out that Circle's Arc, Canton Network, and Stripe's Tempo have recently completed over one billion dollars in financing collectively, with all three financings occurring after the signing of the GENIUS Act in July 2025. Hougan believes that this act has broken the regulatory deadlock that previously suppressed institutional capital entry.Hougan summarized three major signals: first, all three chains have made native privacy transactions a core design to meet institutions' needs for transaction confidentiality; second, the implementation of the GENIUS Act has significantly reduced regulatory uncertainty, with the next key variable being the ongoing Clarity Act, which is expected to benefit stablecoins and tokenized infrastructure; third, the backing of top institutions such as Goldman Sachs, Citadel, BlackRock, Stripe, and Visa behind these three chains stands in stark contrast to the grassroots paths of Ethereum and Solana.Hougan stated that his funds are still primarily betting on native crypto projects and believes that emerging enterprise chains will raise overall competitive standards and attract more capital inflow.

ARK Invest CEO Cathie Wood stated that ARK is pleased to participate in Kalshi's latest round of financing. It believes that prediction markets are becoming a powerful new type of financial infrastructure that enables real-time price discovery around events, probabilities, and changes in the state of the world.Cathie Wood mentioned that Kalshi is at the forefront of this innovation, and ARK is excited to support a team that continually pushes the boundaries of how markets aggregate and express information, congratulating them on achieving this important milestone.Previously reported, Kalshi announced the completion of a new round of $1 billion financing, led by Coatue Management, with participation from ARK Invest and others, resulting in a post-money valuation of $22 billion. This is the company's third round of financing in the past 7 months, with the valuation roughly doubling after each new funding round. Currently, Kalshi has approximately 2 million monthly active users, with an annual trading volume reaching $178 billion and annual revenue exceeding $1.5 billion.

According to market news, Anthropic is in preliminary talks with investors to raise at least $30 billion in new funding, which could become the largest round of financing for the company to date. Anthropic is raising a new round of funding at a valuation of over $900 billion.