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Nature Select completed its A+ round of financing, raising over 100 million dollars in total. The new round was jointly invested by Five Sources Capital, Qiming Venture Partners, Matrix Partners, and Huaye Tiancheng.Currently, the company's AI-native social application Elys is still in invitation-only beta testing, with the official version expected to be released in November.

Solana hardware wallet and accompanying application Unruggable has completed a $500,000 strategic round of financing, led by Colosseum, with participation from some Solana ecosystem investors. Unruggable is an award-winning project from the Solana Cypherpunk Hackathon.

According to PR Newswire, the Latin American stablecoin financial platform Takenos has completed an additional $7 million in seed funding, led by North Island Ventures and Road Capital Management, with participation from existing investors Variant, Lattice, and Reverie. This round of financing brings Takenos' total funding to $12 million.Founded in 2022, Takenos currently operates in six countries in Latin America, processing over $5 billion in transactions annually, with clients including global companies such as LATAM Airlines. The platform has developed a complete technology stack covering local payment rails, consumer applications, enterprise APIs, and institutional trading desks, with partners including Stripe, Mastercard, and Visa. The new funds will be used to expand services to more than 15 countries by 2027.

The video generation foundational model company Sand.ai has completed a $200 million Series A+ financing round, bringing the total financing to $300 million over 10 months. This round of financing was co-led by Cornerstone Capital and Wangsu Science & Technology, with participation from Times Capital, Panlin Capital, Dongzheng Capital, and others.Tianchuang Capital, along with Shandong Iron Investment and Shandong Railway Fund, strategically participated, while Pudong Venture Capital, Shanghai Guofang, and other state-owned institutions from Shanghai joined in, with existing shareholders such as Jingwei Venture Capital, Huaye Tiancheng, and Zhongke Chuangxing continuing to increase their investments.

According to official news, the tokenized securities financing infrastructure Lombard Systems (formerly SemiLiquid) has completed a $4 million seed round financing, led by Ethereal Ventures, with participation from ALPS Capital, First Commit, Veris Ventures, and ATKA.Lombard Systems provides financing infrastructure for tokenized securities and maintains the "Delivery versus Lock" (DvL) standard. This standard allows banks, brokers, and transfer agents to accept tokenized and digital assets as collateral without moving the assets out of their original securities accounts, with the assets still locked in the owner's name. Lenders obtain enforceable secured interests evidenced by cryptographic signature credit certificates.

Meta Platforms issued $4 billion of senior notes maturing in 2036 with a coupon rate of 6.55%, $1.75 billion of senior notes maturing in 2046 with a coupon rate of 7.35%, and $2.75 billion of senior notes maturing in 2056 with a coupon rate of 7.5%.

According to Bloomberg, drone delivery company Zipline has completed a new round of financing of $1.5 billion, with a post-money valuation of $21.5 billion, approximately 2.8 times the valuation of $7.6 billion in January of this year. This round was led by Paradigm, WCM Investment Management, and Layer Global, with participation from Valor Equity Partners, Fidelity Management & Research Company, Uber, Tiger Global, JPMorgan Chase, ARK Invest, Salesforce Ventures, and others. The funds will be used for domestic manufacturing and hiring in the United States.In addition, Walmart has signed a national multi-year agreement with Zipline to add 300 new drone delivery sites.

According to CoinDesk, SC Ventures, a subsidiary of Standard Chartered, has invested in the cryptocurrency insurer Soter Insure alongside Japan's SBI Group, joining a Series B funding round led by Galaxy. Based on the current prices of Bitcoin and Ethereum, the total amount raised in this round is approximately $66 million.Reports indicate that Soter has secured around $23 million in funding, along with over 500 BTC and 2,000 ETH. Previous investors include Coinbase Ventures, Franklin Templeton, and Brevan Howard Digital.Soter provides insurance for cryptocurrency asset losses due to hacking, theft, and software failures, offering policies that pay out in BTC or ETH. The company plans to use the investment to expand its underwriting capacity and grow its business in Asia, Europe, and the United States.

According to Fortune magazine, the on-chain uranium spot trading platform Uranium Digital announced the completion of a $16.5 million Series A financing round, led by Blockchain Capital, with existing investors Portal Ventures and Apeiron Investment Group participating. This round of financing was completed last month, and the funds will be used to expand its electronic trading platform.Uranium Digital was established in 2024, aiming to track the ownership of physical uranium in storage facilities through blockchain technology and provide a trading platform for institutions to buy and sell uranium. The company hopes to shift uranium trading from the traditional model of broker inquiries, email contracts, and offline storage and delivery to electronic trading.Previously, the company completed a $6.1 million seed round financing in 2025. With the growth of energy demand driven by AI data centers, the nuclear power and uranium fuel markets have received more attention.

According to TNW, the Barcelona startup Kabilio has completed a €10 million financing round, led by Picus Capital and Visionaries, with participation from the Spanish public agency for technology and innovation CDTI.The two leading investors also participated in the company's €4 million pre-seed financing round a year ago. Kabilio aims to replace processes such as debt collection in accounting firms with AI agents.

On November 5, the video large model company Sand.ai announced the completion of a $200 million Series A+ financing round, led jointly by Cornerstone Capital and Wangsu Technology, with participation from Shanghai State-owned Assets and Times Capital, among others, while existing shareholders such as Matrix Partners continued to increase their investment. This is the company's third round of financing completed in 2026, with a total financing amount reaching $300 million within 10 months, officially entering the unicorn ranks after this round of financing.Sand.ai was founded by former Microsoft Research Asia senior researcher Cao Yue, and its core product is the video generation foundational model MAGI series. The company open-sourced the video generation model MAGI-2 Preview with a trillion-parameter MoE architecture in August 2026, with a total parameter count of 114 billion, activating about 6 billion parameters in a single generation. According to official information, a larger parameter version of MAGI-2 will be officially released soon, and the funds from this round of financing will mainly be used for the research and development of video foundational models, construction of training and inference infrastructure, product iteration, and global market expansion.

According to the "Science and Technology Innovation Board Daily," Shanghai Bangxin Semiconductor Technology Co., Ltd. recently completed a B+ round of financing, with a total scale exceeding 600 million yuan. This round was led by Jiangxia Ke Investment Group, with follow-on investments from Bank of China Capital, Changjiang Venture Capital, and other institutions. The funds will mainly be used for the research and development of advanced process equipment, capacity construction, and the establishment of a delivery system in the Central China region.Bangxin Semiconductor was established in 2020 and is headquartered in the Shanghai Lingang New Area. It mainly provides front-end process equipment such as etching, photoresist stripping, and thin film deposition for wafer manufacturing companies. The company's chairman, Wang Zhaoxiang, holds a Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from the University of Science and Technology of China, and the core team comes from leading domestic semiconductor equipment companies. The company has entered the supply chain of leading domestic memory chip and wafer manufacturing enterprises, with multiple equipment validated by customers and achieving mass installation, with over 100 units expected to be delivered by 2025.Jiangxia Ke Investment Group is also the project initiator for Bangxin's Wuhan project. On April 22 of this year, Bangxin's Central China production base located in the Jiangxia Intelligent Manufacturing Industrial Park in Wuhan commenced construction; on October 28, the first phase of this base officially went into production. The first phase covers an area of over 4,500 square meters and is responsible for assembly, testing, process validation, and delivery. After reaching full production capacity, it is planned to produce 100 semiconductor equipment units annually, with an annual output value of 600 million yuan. The Hubei Provincial Economic and Information Technology Department referred to this project as the first core equipment project for the front-end of the semiconductor industry chain in the Jiangxia District.

According to Bloomberg, Tenspresso, an AI chip startup founded by former Google AI chip engineers and established just three months ago, is in talks for a new round of financing, with a valuation potentially reaching $500 million, according to sources.A few weeks ago, the company secured $20 million in investment from Striker Venture Partners and completed several key talent recruitments. Since then, Altimeter Capital Management has proactively approached the company to discuss additional investment. The specific amount and terms of the financing have not yet been disclosed, and it is still uncertain whether the deal will be finalized.

According to a report by Bloomberg citing informed sources, Alphabet's AI drug development company Isomorphic Labs is in talks to raise approximately $5 billion in new funding, which would bring its valuation to around $50 billion. The sources stated that the financing has not yet been completed and details may change.Isomorphic Labs was spun off from Google's DeepMind in 2021 and conducts drug development based on the AlphaFold protein structure prediction model. In May of this year, it completed a $2.1 billion funding round led by Thrive Capital, with participation from Alphabet and others.

MetaDAO has launched a financing plan for founders of consumer applications, with the first project 1609SAT aiming to raise $100,000, and MetaDAO will contribute $50,000.

Goldman Sachs Group and Apollo Global Management are in talks with Wall Street investors to begin selling a portion of a roughly $40 billion SpaceX (SPCX.O) chip financing deal.

According to Pliant's announcement, the company has completed a $80 million Series C financing round, led by Seaya Nova and Speedinvest, with participation from Illuminate Financial, Motive Ventures, and Molten. The funds will be used for expansion in the United States and Canada, entering more international markets, and accelerating the AI payment roadmap.The company stated that it has doubled its business for three consecutive years, with annual recurring revenue exceeding $100 million, and can open its B2B payment infrastructure to external AI entities such as Claude and ChatGPT through the Model Context Protocol (MCP).

The U.S. Treasury Department announced that the quarterly refinancing scale is set at 125 billion dollars, in line with expectations.The Treasury will auction 42 billion dollars in ten-year Treasury bonds and will offer 25 billion dollars in thirty-year Treasury bonds.

TeraWulf announced that it has signed a credit support agreement with Google to provide financing support for its Justified data center campus project in Hawesville, Kentucky, USA, which corresponds to a long-term lease commitment of approximately $19 billion signed with Anthropic. Google will provide contractual credit support for the expected debt financing, and Alphabet's senior unsecured debt currently holds a rating of AA+ from S&P and Aa2 from Moody's.According to the project schedule, the relevant data centers are expected to begin phased delivery by the end of 2027 and continue into the second quarter of 2028. TeraWulf stated that this agreement will further enhance the project's financing framework and strengthen construction execution capabilities, driving its long-term AI and high-performance computing (HPC) leasing demand into sustainable cash flow.

AI-driven custom manufacturing and real-world asset project RWAI announced the completion of $8 million in financing, with investment institutions including Amber, UOB Venture, Arkstream Capital, Web3Lab, Waterdrip, Moonhill, Basics Capital, Anti Capital, Everwood Capital, and Solarium Investment.RWAI is a custom manufacturing platform that transforms product ideas into physical goods, integrating AI-assisted product planning and design, manufacturer matching, production, quality control, and delivery into a unified process. The platform aims to simplify complex manufacturing processes, helping brands, creators, and individual users turn product concepts into reality. Leveraging existing manufacturing operations and experience, RWAI has launched related services on its mainnet, enabling users to conveniently place manufacturing orders and make on-chain payments in a Web3 environment.Its RWA service also introduces tokenized goods NFTs related to physical products, linking digital transactions with physical delivery. Additionally, RWAI is preparing an airdrop event for community participants. Users can participate by adding "RWAI" to their display names on Telegram and engaging in official community activities. Reward distribution will comprehensively consider user participation, including the duration of retaining "RWAI" in their display names and contributions to discussions related to RWAI. More information regarding the airdrop schedule, participation methods, and reward details will be gradually announced through RWAI's official website and community channels.