finance
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Citi and Coinbase are connecting bank-grade fiat infrastructure directly to stablecoin payment rails, giving businesses virtual accounts and merchant settlement without requiring separate crypto systems.
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Fiserv’s Roughrider Coin banking use case entered production on October 1. The next test is measurable adoption, access and reliable settlement.
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The SEC’s Innovation Exemption creates a five-year conditional pathway for qualifying venues to trade tokenized U.S.-listed stocks using onchain market infrastructure.
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Grayscale has turned its Bitcoin Miners ETF into an AI infrastructure fund, changing the ticker from MNRS to GCPU and replacing a Bitcoin-miner index with one built around high-performance computing. The firm’s September 22 announcement says the Grayscale AI Compute ETF now tracks the Indxx High Performance Computing Index, targeting companies that own or operate…
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Grayscale has turned a Bitcoin-miner equity fund into an AI-infrastructure fund, formally renaming the Grayscale Bitcoin Miners ETF (MNRS) as the Grayscale AI Compute ETF (GCPU). The September 22 announcement says GCPU now tracks the Indxx High Performance Computing Index and targets companies operating the physical infrastructure behind AI, including data centers, GPU cloud capacity…
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A BlackRock-backed AI infrastructure consortium and IFM are reportedly in exclusive talks for STACK Infrastructure’s Asia-Pacific data-center portfolio, potentially valuing the assets at $20–25 billion.
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Accelevation is targeting a valuation of up to $5.37 billion in its U.S. IPO as demand rises for AI data center power, cooling and modular infrastructure.
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SK Hynix’s Solidigm is considering a 2027 IPO that could value the enterprise SSD and NAND storage company at up to $150 billion, Reuters reports.
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Nscale, an AI infrastructure company that emerged from Bitcoin miner Arkon Energy, has filed for a New York Stock Exchange IPO after rapidly expanding its compute, data-center and power footprint.
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SoftBank has raised $11.1 billion through dollar- and euro-denominated bonds as the technology conglomerate dramatically expands its investments across artificial intelligence infrastructure. The transaction is the largest high-yield corporate bond sale globally on record, according to Reuters and LSEG data. A major purpose of the financing is funding the final $10 billion tranche of SoftBank’s…
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AMD crossed a $1 trillion market capitalization for the first time as renewed AI-hardware demand lifted semiconductor stocks.
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The ECB has launched Pontes, connecting tokenized financial markets with settlement in central-bank money.
