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According to Reuters, artificial intelligence chip design company Velaura AI announced the completion of a $110 million Series A financing round, with a valuation exceeding $1 billion. Seligman Ventures led the investment, with participation from Capricorn Investment Group, Samsung Catalyst Fund, StepStone Group, and Maverick Silicon.The company primarily develops low-power chips and software technologies for data centers and physical AI applications, including robotics and autonomous systems. The new funds will be used to accelerate the development and deployment of its AI products and to hire engineers and customer service personnel. It is reported that the company is in talks with three of the four major cloud service providers and hopes to develop them into potential clients, but declined to disclose which three they are.

Ant Group's three independent sectors, Ant International, OceanBase, and Ant Technology, have recently launched intensive external financing. Among them, Ant International completed approximately $1.2 billion in Series A financing in July, OceanBase is seeking about 2 to 3 billion yuan in Series A financing, and Ant Technology is preparing for Pre-IPO financing. All three companies will operate independently starting in March 2024. Sources close to Ant indicate that this round of financing is more of a phased test of the effectiveness of the three companies' independent operations, and they have not yet entered the preparation stage for an IPO.OceanBase's annual revenue has exceeded 1.4 billion yuan, with a year-on-year growth of about 70%; Ant Technology's revenue is expected to be around 5 billion yuan in 2025, with a target of about 8 billion yuan in 2026. Ant International's revenue is projected to be around $3.75 billion in 2025. Since 2023, Ant Group has invested nearly 80 billion yuan in technology, shifting its strategic focus from fintech to AI and data elements, with its financial business humorously referred to internally as the department that "earns living expenses" for the AI business.Currently, Ant's overall valuation is approximately 592 billion yuan, a reduction of more than 70% from 2.1 trillion yuan on the eve of its IPO in 2020. The market believes that a spin-off listing is a more realistic path than an overall listing for the group, but each sector still needs to prove its independent customer acquisition capabilities to open the doors to the capital market.

According to BBX data, yesterday global listed companies disclosed the latest developments in cryptocurrency strategic mergers and acquisitions and financing, with the core information as follows:Meta planet invests 2,100 BTC to control Super League and create a multinational treasury: Super League Enterprise has reached a final agreement with Meta planet. Meta planet will invest 2,100 bitcoins (worth approximately $132.1 million) and $2.5 million in cash through its wholly-owned U.S. subsidiary in exchange for 44,859,400 shares of common stock (at $3 per share), preferred stock, and warrants. After the transaction is completed, Super League will be renamed "Super planet, Inc." and become a merged subsidiary with approximately 95.7% ownership by Meta planet, thus creating a bitcoin treasury platform spanning Nasdaq and the Tokyo Stock Exchange.Zhibao Technology completes $154.7 million PIPE financing, fully paid in bitcoin: Nasdaq-listed Zhibao Technology (stock code: ZBAO) announced the completion of a $154.7 million private equity financing (PIPE). The company issued a total of 442 million PIPE units, with investors fully paying with 2,380 bitcoins (calculated at approximately $65,000 per bitcoin as of July 30). The funds raised will be used to strengthen the financial foundation, accelerate business growth, and deepen strategic synergies with the cryptocurrency and Web3 fields.

According to Bloomberg, AI startup Temporal Technologies Inc. is in negotiations for a new round of financing, with a pre-financing valuation of at least $12 billion and a financing scale of approximately $500 million.The company primarily offers an open-source orchestration platform that helps developers prevent failures in complex code. The financing round has not yet been completed, and specific details may still change.

According to The Block, Ripple has completed a private placement of senior unsecured notes expanded to $275 million. The notes were issued by its non-bank prime broker Ripple Prime, and the funds raised will be used for working capital and expansion of its business in the United States.This issuance received a BBB investment-grade rating from KBRA, and Ripple Prime plans to further expand multi-asset clearing, financing, and prime brokerage services.

Artificial intelligence chip startup Etched raised $700 million in a funding round led by Jane Street, bringing the company's valuation to $21 billion.Etched has signed Jane Street as its first customer and has begun shipping chips.

Zhibao Technology, a Nasdaq-listed company (Ticker: ZBAO), has completed a $154.7 million PIPE financing, with investors fully paying in 2,380 bitcoins (valued at $65,000 each based on the July 30 benchmark price).The financing issued 442 million PIPE units at a price of $0.35 per unit, each unit consisting of one share of Class A common stock and a two-year warrant with an exercise price of $0.35 per share. At closing, 395.6 million units were delivered, with the remaining 46.32 million units to be delivered pending shareholder approval, with no additional consideration required.

According to official news, the credit delegation layer project Twyne announced the completion of its seed round financing, which was co-led by Cyber Fund and Ethereal Ventures. Twyne aims to build a Credit Delegation Layer that connects idle credit in the lending market with parties in need of credit, addressing the issue of collateral depositors' credit being locked and half of the market's credit being idle while the other half urgently needs credit.Twyne stated that in the current lending market, credit often remains with the party depositing collateral, leading to a mismatch between supply and demand. The project will promote the flow and efficient allocation of credit through the credit delegation layer.

According to Cointelegraph, the cryptocurrency exchange Binance provided customer trading records and identity information to Russian authorities, which were subsequently used in a terrorism financing case against IT specialist Yuri Belenkiy.Yuri Belenkiy was detained in September 2025 and is currently awaiting trial in Russia. The Russian Investigative Committee accuses Yuri Belenkiy of donating over $700 in cryptocurrency to the Ukrainian military and banned organizations between January 2023 and March 2024.The information obtained by Russian authorities includes his transaction history, date of birth, address, phone number, Russian passport, and Bulgarian residence permit. Binance announced its complete withdrawal from Russia in September 2023 and sold its local business to CommEX.Binance stated that the company is not responsible for making or enforcing the laws of any jurisdiction, nor does it determine the content of charges or how governments use information in legal proceedings; the company will cooperate with legitimate information requests from global law enforcement agencies in accordance with applicable laws, privacy, and regulatory requirements.

UK agricultural robotics startup Versatile RobotX has completed over €1.17 million (approximately £1 million) in funding, with sources including the British Design Fund (BDF), the second round of the Innovate UK Growth Catalyst investor collaboration program, and grants from the Defra Agricultural Innovation Scheme.The company was co-founded in July 2024 by Professor Klaus McDonald-Maier from the University of Essex and Dr. Vishwanathan Mohan. Its two core products—the automated fruit and vegetable picking robot and the hydroponic harvesting robot—have completed field validation at well-known UK farms such as Wilkin & Sons.

AI company Higgsfield completed a $400 million financing round with a valuation of $5.4 billion, supported jointly by Goldman Sachs and Intel.

According to CoinDesk, the crypto startup raised $11.2 billion in funding in the first half of 2026, with all disclosed funds directed towards regulated and licensed enterprises. The most funding was received by payment and stablecoin companies, prediction markets, exchanges, and trading platforms.Major investors include Wall Street and large global financial institutions, focusing their investments on licensed and compliant companies. Investors and founders increasingly view regulatory licenses as scarce and defensive assets, while retail investors still primarily trade on unlicensed or other alternative platforms.

According to the official announcement from Bitget, the platform has officially launched Stock+ US stock margin trading services. Users only need to open a Bitget Stock+ account to use this feature. The first batch supports margin trading for over 3,800 underlying stocks and short selling for over 2,300 underlying stocks (currently only supporting short selling ETB), with a maximum leverage of 3 times. Among them, the annual interest rate for margin trading is 5%; during the promotional period for short selling, the annual interest rate is as low as 0%.The launch of this product further enriches the trading scenarios for US stocks in Stock+. Users can use margin trading to borrow funds to buy securities by using securities or assets in their accounts as collateral; they can also borrow securities to sell through short selling, and buy them back to return after the stock price drops, in order to meet the needs of both long and short trading and improve capital efficiency.

Broadcom fell nearly 7% during Friday's trading, as the market expressed concerns about the financing model behind its AI infrastructure expansion. Bank of America analysts estimate that the financing platform built by Broadcom for AI chip customers could accumulate up to $370 billion in preferred debt by mid-2029. Broadcom has provided guarantees for lease payments for some customers, with the first transaction guarantee amounting to approximately $29 billion.

According to Fintechnews, Malaysian stablecoin company BLOX announced the completion of a $1 million seed round financing, led by the technology investment division of Singapore's venture capital fund Kivo Technology. The new funds will be used to expand the development of its Malaysia Ringgit (MYR) backed stablecoin MYRC.It is reported that BLOX has participated in a domestic blockchain payment proof-of-concept project in Malaysia, exploring blockchain-based local payment scenarios through MYRC.

According to Pulse2, the AI agent platform Moss announced its entry into the "unicorn club" after completing a €30 million Series C funding round, led by Portage and Cherry Ventures.The new funding will support its expansion into a broader Finance AI product system, creating AI agent workflows aimed at corporate finance departments. Users can configure AI agents based on different financial functions, retaining visibility and control over the agent's operational steps and decision-making processes while automating tasks.

According to Bloomberg, EdgeConneX Inc., a data center operator supported by EQT, is seeking banks to provide a power cost guarantee of up to $2.5 billion to support its global data center expansion plans.EdgeConneX is negotiating a letter of credit financing arrangement with several banks, including France's Natixis and Spain's BBVA. This arrangement will help the company lock in power supply costs for its data center projects.With the rapid growth in demand for artificial intelligence training and inference, global data center construction has entered an accelerated phase, and operators are exploring new financing tools to cope with rising power procurement costs and infrastructure investment needs. EdgeConneX's request for bank support reflects that AI infrastructure companies are shifting from traditional real estate and equipment financing models to establishing new financing structures around energy supply, long-term power contracts, and other assets.In recent years, major cloud computing companies and AI infrastructure firms have increased their investments in data centers, while power supply has become a significant bottleneck constraining the expansion of AI computing power. Securing future power costs through bank credit support is becoming a new way for data center operators to obtain expansion funding.

Sources reveal that Goldman Sachs is in discussions with potential investors to participate in Nvidia's $500 billion artificial intelligence financing plan.

Investment firm Neoclassic Capital announced on X that it will co-lead the seed round financing for the tokenized real-world asset (RWA) data platform RWA.xyz. RWA.xyz has not yet disclosed further details about this round of financing.RWA.xyz is building an industry-standard data platform and real data source for tokenized real-world assets. According to RootData, previous investors in RWA.xyz also include Nascent, Archetype, The Venture Dept., and others.