While crypto VCs chase consumer apps that nobody uses, a16z just wrote a $355 million check for the plumbing. Digital Asset closed $355M at a $2B valuation, led by Andreessen Horowitz, to build blockchain rails for banks and asset managers
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Private equity just called AI's bluff with the biggest check it's ever written to a tech-focused fund. Francisco Partners raised $18 billion across two PE funds, its largest fundraise ever, during what's supposed to be a tough period for buyouts
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The bank is eating its own dog food, and the dog food company is eating the bank's dog food. Citi tokenized stock in Kaleido, a tokenization infrastructure firm that builds the rails banks use for this exact kind of deal
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Solana just built a velvet rope for the asset class Wall Street can't touch yet — pre-IPO equity, on-chain, for firms already moving half a billion in volume. Solana Foundation launched Frontier Traders, an institutional VIP tier requiring $500M in trailing 30-day DEX volume for access
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Wall Street just figured out how to make private equity liquid without an IPO. Citigroup is offering tokenized shares of private companies to wealth management and institutional clients on SIX Digital Exchange, with the first transaction already complete
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The world's biggest IPO is launching a satellite company that wants to train AI in space, but protesters want you to know about the chatbot it already owns.
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The two companies everyone expects to IPO are now locked in a race to the bottom on pricing, and that tells you everything about how commoditized frontier AI has become.
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The man who built the cloud is now building the robots, and he wants Washington to know the difference between regulating a tool and banning progress.
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Retail investors just bet $70 billion that the space economy is real, not science fiction. SpaceX is finalizing IPO pricing today after pulling more than $70 billion in retail orders, making it one of the most oversubscribed public offerings in history.
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The labs aren't building coding agents to sell seats—they're building them to recursively improve themselves toward AGI. OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google are betting heavily on AI coding tools not just for revenue, but as a potential path to artificial general intelligence.
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The engineer who built the chatbot is now suing the company that fired him for saying it was dangerous, and the timing couldn't be worse for Musk's wallet.
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The smart money just bet $355 million that Wall Street's plumbing is about to get a blockchain upgrade. Digital Asset secured $355M in funding led by Andreessen Horowitz to scale its Canton Network, the institutional blockchain connecting traditional finance infrastructure
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SpaceX isn't just going public at a record $1.75 trillion valuation — it's launching a million-satellite constellation to train AI models in orbit, turning space into the new cloud.
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The same week a scooter guy raised $5 million to put servers in orbit, one of the world's biggest data center investors called it a science project—and he's betting gigawatts on Earth instead.
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The AI boom isn't just minting paper wealth — it's turning it into real estate, and the Bay Area's housing stock can't absorb what's coming. San Francisco home prices are surging as AI company employees convert stock wealth into real estate, with OpenAI, Anthropic, and SpaceX IPOs on the horizon
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The world's largest stablecoin issuer just watched its chief business development officer walk after nine months, right when scaling and legitimacy matter most.
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The CEO of a company racing to build AGI just said the quiet part out loud: his product might structurally destroy jobs, and he wants to tax himself to pay for it.
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The same people who taught cars to see are now teaching your office building to think. Coram AI raised $35M Series B, bringing total funding to $66M, to turn existing security cameras into predictive AI systems that spot problems before they happen
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The narrative that retail investors are dumping bitcoin for SpaceX shares just got a lot less sexy—and a lot more technical. Bitcoin ETFs saw $5.5B in outflows while the price dipped to $61,738, but market analysts say this isn't about IPO FOMO—it's arbitrage trades unwinding.
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The stock market is about to get competition from shares that never existed on an exchange in the first place. Citi launched Digital Depositary Receipts (DDRs), tokenized instruments that give institutional investors fractional exposure to private startup equity on blockchain rails
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