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Metaplanet uses Bitcoin to hold Super League, and Zhibao Technology completed a private placement of 2,380 BTC

Comparative news, according to BBX data, yesterday global listed companies revealed the latest developments in cryptocurrency strategic mergers, acquisitions and financing. The core information is as follows: Meta Planet invests 2,100 BTC holdings in Super League to create a multinational treasury: Super League Enterprise and Meta Planet reached a final agreement. Meta planet will invest 2,100 bitcoins (worth approximately $132.1 million) and $2.5 million in cash through its wholly-owned US subsidiary in exchange for 44,859,400 Super League shares ($3 each), preferred shares, and warrants. After the transaction is completed, Super League will change its name to “Super Planet, Inc.” and become a consolidated subsidiary of Meta Planet holding approximately 95.7% of the shares, thus creating a Bitcoin treasury platform spanning the NASDAQ and Tokyo Stock Exchange. Zhibao Technology completed $154.7 million PIPE financing, fully paid in Bitcoin: NASDAQ listed company Zhibao Technology (ZBAO) announced the completion of a $154.7 million private equity financing (PIPE). The company issued a total of 442 million PIPE units, and investors paid in full with 2,380 bitcoins (calculated at a market price of approximately $65,000 each on July 30). The funds raised will be used to strengthen the financial base, accelerate business growth, and deepen strategic collaboration with the cryptocurrency and Web3 sectors.

3d ago#financing

GD Culture holds 7,500 BTC and lost more than $200 million and maintained operations by diluting its shares 18 times

According to CryptoSlate, according to CryptoSlate, the NASDAQ listed company GD Culture Group revealed in its financial report for the first half of 2026 that the fair value of the 7500 BTC holdings (original cost of US$842 million) fell to US$451.2 million as of June 30, generating US$211.8 million in non-cash unrealized losses, accounting for 97.9% of the company's net loss of US$2162 million in the first half of the year. Notably, the company did not sell its core BTC reserves, but maintained liquidity through large-scale equity financing — after a 1:250 reverse split adjustment, the number of tradable shares surged 18 times from 229,000 shares at the beginning of the year to 4.162,500 shares, an increase of 18 times, of which 99.65% was additional cash. The company raised a total of approximately US$47.5 million through ATM placement and targeted increases, with a working capital of US$36.6 million as of June 30. Management said the current liquidity is sufficient to cover operating obligations for at least the next 12 months.

5d ago

Alphabet considers issuing its first Australian dollar bond, and debt financing becomes a core funding source for AI infrastructure expansion

Comparing news, according to Bloomberg, Google's parent company Alphabet has hired banks to arrange for its possible initial Australian dollar bond issuance. ANZ, one of the appointed banks, confirmed via email that the issuance may cover 4 terms, up to 20 years. This is yet another move by a massive influx of US tech companies into the credit market to raise capital for AI investments. Alphabet issued $25 billion in bonds earlier this month and raised nearly $85 billion through equity financing. Combined with this Australian dollar bond program, its AI capital expenditure financing channel is rapidly expanding from the US dollar market to the global multi-currency market. Previously, Morgan Stanley had predicted that the global AI-related bond issuance scale in 2026 would be close to $570 billion, more than double last year, and Alphabet is one of the most aggressive issuers. Capital support for hyperscale cloud businesses continues to rise, and debt financing has become a core source of funding to support the expansion of AI infrastructure.

5d ago#financing

GSR Market Supervisor: Many tokenized platforms lack real trading volume, and the hype is beyond practical use

Comparative news, according to Cryptonomist reports, Spencer Hallarn, head of the crypto market maker GSR market, said in an interview that the tokenization hype has surpassed the actual use of many platforms. The problem is not the market's demand for tokenized assets, but the platform design itself. He pointed out that many walled garden-style tokenization platforms with strict KYC generally lack meaningful transaction volume, and tedious entry and compliance processes limit activity. Hallarn believes that the real opportunity lies not in tokenizing for the sake of tokenizing, but rather in repairing the underlying conduits of traditional banking and settlement systems, that is, the infrastructure for transferring funds and assets between institutions. This will bring tokenization closer to an infrastructure repair rather than a simple cryptographic product narrative. He also said that the stagnation in the crypto market this year is largely due to capital shifting to artificial intelligence infrastructure. Large technology companies have raised huge amounts of capital for AI infrastructure through equity financing, tightening the liquidity of various types of assets. Crypto is no exception, and its customers are also shifting from chasing short-term momentum to long-term budget planning, OTC hedging, and RWA. If AI investment cools down and the Federal Reserve cuts interest rates, liquidity is expected to improve and support the Bitcoin price.

10d ago

From Avenir to UMX, Li Lin's return and new propositions

Author: Eric, Foresight News In the summer of 2026, UMX, which was incubated by Li Lin's Avenir Group, began public testing, which also made outsiders once again set their sights on this group of Chinese entrepreneurs in the crypto industry. Thirteen years have passed since Huobi was founded in 2013. At that time, Li Lin was standing in a market that had just taken shape. The problem he faced was very straightforward: how to make it easier for more people to trade Bitcoin. Thirteen years later, the crypto industry has moved from a relatively independent digital asset market to a new stage of continuous convergence with ETFs, stablecoins, RWA, and traditional securities. Over the past few years, Li Lin's role has also changed. In 2023, he founded Avenir Group in Hong Kong, gradually shifting from a frontline entrepreneur to an investor and asset allocator, continuing to focus on digital assets, securities trading, and financial infrastructure. Today, UMX has emerged as an “Avenir Group Incubator”, giving these seemingly scattered investment leads over the past few years a new perspective. Problems also followed. In the years since Huobi founded Avenir Group, what exactly is Li Lin doing, and what is it that has made him stand back to the stage now? From Beijing to Hong Kong, from athletes to referees, to understand this return, they must first go back to where they left. In September 2013, Huobi went online. It was a crazy year when Bitcoin rushed from 800 yuan to 8,000 yuan. It was also a year on the eve of Mentougou's collapse and the industry grew reckless. A young man from Hengyang, graduated from the Tsinghua Automation Department, wrote code for Oracle, and had started a business twice. Using the “permanent exemption of processing fees,” he cut through the Bitcoin exchange market, which had experienced rough experiences at the time. Half a year after launch, Huobi's daily transaction volume exceeded 1.5 billion yuan. At its peak, it occupied more than half of the global Bitcoin exchange market. Zhenge Fund, Dai Zhikang, and Sequoia Capital followed one after another, and Li Lin became one of the most familiar faces of entrepreneurs in the Chinese crypto world. Over the next decade, Huobi and Li Lin experienced a complete cycle of the crypto industry from early recklessness to global compliance competition. For an entrepreneur, this experience left behind not only how to become a trading platform, but also a complete set of perceptions about trading, liquidity, user needs, account systems, and risks. However, running a platform and allocating a sum of money is not the same way to look at the market. In 2023, Li Lin founded Avenir Group in Hong Kong. The name comes from French and means “better future”. From managing an exchange with your own hands to managing a multi-strategy family office, the roles have changed, and so has the way you look at the market. In the past, he was an athlete on the field, watching user growth, transaction volume, product lines, and liquidity, and was fighting closely with his opponents every minute and every second. Now he is sitting on the sidelines and working as a fund allocator, but what he sees is a different set of problems. Where are funds left idle, where are assets split, why can't accounts be exchanged, and why is risk difficult to be managed uniformly. These issues are hard to see from an operator's perspective, because exchanges naturally only care about matters within their own market. From the perspective of the configurator, they are so dazzling that one cannot ignore them. Avenir's actions over the past few years have vaguely outlined a main line. The list has been drawn up for a long time. It has taken a stake in UP Fintech, the parent company of Tiger Securities, as a core investor, participated in the US$300 million equity financing of the Hong Kong licensed platform OSL, invested in the institutional order routing company CoinRoutes and options derivatives infrastructure SignalPlus, led the AI native quantification platform Inference Research, and signed multiple assets with Tiger Securities and AMINA Bank on Consensus Hong Kong Infrastructure Cooperation Memorandum. According to the 13F filing submitted to the SEC, Avenir ranked first among Asian Bitcoin ETF institutions for eight consecutive quarters, with BlackRock IBIT alone holding more than 18 million shares. In addition, Avenir launched a $500 million quantitative partnership program to provide capital and ecological support to mature quantitative trading teams, and also acquired the Japanese compliant trading platform BitTrade through the Xinhua Group. The investment reach of licensed platforms, brokerage services, transaction execution, quantitative capabilities, and stablecoin payments covers almost every aspect required to connect the two markets. Looking at individual projects, these investments are scattered across different products and markets. When you look at it together, the direction gradually...

10d agoForesight News#web 3.0

Neros raised $250 million, raising valuation to $2.5 billion

Comparatively, the US defense technology startup Neros completed equity financing of 250 million US dollars, and the post-investment valuation rose to 2.5 billion US dollars. The investment was led by Sequoia Capital and the American Strategic Technology Fund, and original investors such as Thiel Capital participated. Neros plans to accelerate the development and mass production of the Archer attack drone and the Bandit interceptor drone, and promote localized manufacturing in allied countries. The company currently has an annual production capacity of approximately 14,000 units, and aims to increase Archer production capacity to 1 million units by 2028. The funding will also be used to expand the workforce from around 200 to 350, and upgrade the handheld terminals and Archer AI models used to control the drone to keep targets locked and collaborate with other drones in a GPS-free environment. This article is sponsored by GENG, Build Your Fortune on GENG (https://geng.one)

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AI computing power financing heats up, Nvidia-backed Lambda plans to buy GPUs through a $917 million loan

Comparatively, Lambda, an AI cloud computing service provider supported by Nvidia, is raising $917 million through the leveraged loan market to purchase AI chips. As AI infrastructure construction accelerates, chip financing is becoming a new way to invest capital in the AI industry. Lambda belongs to the group of “new cloud vendors” that has developed rapidly in recent years. Its main business is to provide GPU computing power and AI infrastructure services to enterprises and developers. The financing plan was completed through a loan based on equity related to GPU assets to support the company's expansion of AI computing resources. According to the report, AI infrastructure companies are actively exploring new financing methods to meet the huge capital investment required to build large-scale computing power clusters. Previously, AI cloud service provider CoreWeave completed the first transaction for chip financing in the institutional leveraged loan market, providing a new financing model for the industry. As demand for generative AI continues to grow, Nvidia's GPU supply has become a core resource for AI enterprise expansion. By using GPU assets as a financing basis, AI cloud service providers can rapidly expand the scale of computing power without fully relying on equity financing, while also allowing traditional credit markets to participate in the AI infrastructure investment wave.

12d ago

Intel fell 4.62% before the market, and the company plans to raise $15 billion to expand AI investment and join the AI infrastructure financing wave

Comparatively, Intel (Intel) announced plans to raise approximately $15 billion through a public offering of common shares to enhance its balance sheet and support investment in AI computing, self-developed chips, advanced packaging, external foundry services, and physical AI related businesses. The company said the proceeds from this fundraising will be used for general corporate purposes, including capital expenditure and working capital, to support future growth opportunities while maintaining an investment-grade credit rating. The offering is led by underwriters and is not an ATM program that sells shares at any time. Currently, shares have not been priced or sold. Underwriters are also expected to receive 30-day overallocation rights to purchase up to $2.25 billion in additional shares, bringing the capital raised to a maximum of $17.25 billion. J.P. Morgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, and Citibank act as joint bookkeepers. Intel's stock price has accumulated a cumulative increase of more than 175% since this year, but due to fund-raising news, it fell 4.62% before the market on Monday. The financing comes at a time when global AI infrastructure investment is entering a phase of rapid expansion. According to reports, AI capital expenditure is expected to reach 1 trillion US dollars this year, and hyperscale cloud computing companies are gradually shifting from relying on free cash flow and debt financing to equity financing. Previously, Google's parent company Alphabet had already entered the equity market on a large scale to raise capital, while Microsoft, Amazon, and Meta still mainly relied on cash flow, debt, leases, and structured financing to support AI expansion. Goldman Sachs anticipates that capital expenditure for hyperscale cloud vendors may rise further to $1.4 trillion in 2027. Intel's current fund-raising is viewed as another example of the AI infrastructure investment wave, showing that as demand for AI computing power continues to expand, related companies are seeking more capital channels to support long-term expansion. This article is sponsored by GENG, Build Your Fortune on GENG (https://geng.one)

12d agoburnking#financing

Goldman Sachs: The S&P 500 is expected to reach 8,000 points, and demand for stocks will continue to overwhelm supply

Comparatively, Goldman Sachs partner John Flood said that although the US equity issuance scale is expected to reach a record high in 2026, demand for stocks will continue to overwhelm supply, and the S&P 500 index is expected to rise further to 8,000 points. The S&P 500 closed at a record high of 7,757 points last Friday, reaching a record high for the 26th time since this year. Goldman Sachs expects the total amount of shares issued in the US to reach about 700 billion US dollars in 2026, of which the number of IPOs issued slightly exceeds 225 billion US dollars, and other issuances of about 450 billion US dollars. Despite the record overall size, the proportion equivalent to the market value of the Russell 3000 Index is only about 1%, which is basically the same as the historical average from 2015 to 2019. The current distribution scale is closer to market normalization rather than excessive prosperity. At the same time, share buybacks are still an important force supporting market demand. Since the beginning of the year, US companies have authorized purchases of $989 billion, a record high; Goldman Sachs expects the full year of 2026 to reach 1.4 trillion US dollars in open market share repurchases, which is significantly higher than the primary market issuance scale of about 700 billion US dollars. Even considering the potential additional supply brought about by the lifting of the lockdown period after the IPO, demand will still exceed supply. The current increase in equity issuance is mainly driven by AI investment demand, and AI-related issuances account for about 40% of the additional issuance and follow-up issuance volume in the US. As hyperscale technology companies expect to spend more than $1 trillion a year in capital spending over the next few years, other businesses may also support AI investment plans through financing. However, Goldman Sachs expects that external financing for hyperscale technology companies will still be dominated by debt, and equity financing will play a more complementary role.

12d ago

Firmus raised $2 billion and valued at over $10.5 billion, with Nvidia and Coatue participating

On August 7, AI infrastructure company Firmus announced the completion of equity financing of 2 billion US dollars, and the post-investment valuation exceeded 10.5 billion US dollars, almost double the previous round of 5.5 billion US dollars in April. This round of financing received additional investment from Nvidia and Coatue Management, and Blackstone's funds and Jane Street also participated. Firmus is building infrastructure based on Nvidia's DSX AI Factory reference architecture. The two parties reached an agreement at the end of June. Firmus will purchase Nvidia equipment and sell cloud services supported by it. This round of funding will be used to accelerate Project Southgate in Australia and the Asia-Pacific region, including the recently announced project in Indonesia. Firmus Co-CEO Oliver Curtis said the new capital will support the company to advance simultaneously in the Australian and Asia-Pacific markets.    

15d ago#financing