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John Kim
John Kim reports on the digital-asset business for TokenPost. Send corrections or tips to info@tokenpost.com.
Stories by John Kim
- Anthropic IPO Filing Shows $4.59 Billion Revenue and $8 Billion Loss
Revenue surged 1,088% in fiscal 2025, while the company held $20.28 billion in cash and short-term investments at year-end.
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- Strategy Announces 1,665-Bitcoin Purchase Amid Supply Debate
The purchase adds to corporate Bitcoin accumulation, but available disclosures do not show that treasury buyers caused exchange withdrawals or that buying is accelerating marketwide.
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- DTCC Plans Collateral AppChain With Chainlink for 24/7 Operations
The platform is expected to launch in the fourth quarter of 2026 and coordinate collateral eligibility, valuation, margining, optimization and settlement across market participants.
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- Strategy Buys 1,665 Bitcoin, Extending Weekly Accumulation Streak
The company now holds 847,666 BTC after spending $142.7 million at an average price of $85,681 per coin.
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- Modal Labs Nears $750 Million Round at $15.75 Billion Valuation
The proposed financing would more than triple the AI infrastructure company’s valuation four months after its previous fundraise.
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- Galaxy Offers Eight-Lecture Academy on Digital Assets and Finance
The program covers Bitcoin, Ether, stablecoins, tokenization, decentralization and digital assets in investment portfolios through videos, resources and quizzes.
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- Robinhood Crypto Trading Pace Runs 25% Above August Average
Preliminary September volume reached approximately $17 billion through Sept. 24, with $7 billion on the app and $10 billion on Bitstamp.
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- Blockchain.com Plans $500 Million IPO at Up to $6 Billion Valuation
The crypto exchange and wallet provider is targeting a valuation of $4 billion to $6 billion and may reduce the offering size if needed.
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- Blockchain.com Filed Confidential U.S. IPO Documents in May
The crypto exchange and wallet provider is considering a smaller offering if needed, after reaching a $14 billion valuation in 2022.
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- BitMart Develops Restructuring Plan for Phased Operations
The exchange is weighing restructuring as an alternative to a full shutdown and aimed to provide further updates by Sept. 9, 2026.
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- Avalanche Hosts More Than 350 Tokenized U.S. Equities as SECZ Launches
Dinari’s Avalanche C-Chain catalog includes stocks, ETFs and REITs, while Securitize launched its tokenized common stock on Avalanche and Solana.
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- Bitcoin Standard Treasury Ends Cantor SPAC Merger Amid Market Pressure
BSTR intends to withdraw its Form S-4 after ending plans to go public through Cantor Equity Partners I, with a $15 million termination payment due in two installments.
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- Blockchain.com Files Confidential IPO Draft With Terms Undecided
The crypto platform has not disclosed the offering’s timing, share count or price range, while reporting has placed a potential raise at $500 million.
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- Kuaishou’s Kling AI Secures $2.8 Billion in Financing Commitments
Investors committed RMB19.0471 billion to Beijing Kling, the entity expected to hold Kling AI assets after restructuring, while a future IPO remains conditional.
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- Telegram Renames Wallet App to Walt as Gram Wallet Rolls Out
The rebrand leaves user accounts, balances and wallet addresses unchanged, while Gram Wallet adds a separate non-custodial option inside Telegram.
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- Spark, Anchorage Digital Open Bitcoin (BTC)-Backed Lending to Institutions
Three institutional counterparties borrowed $150 million in USDC against $222 million of BTC collateral through the arrangement.
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- Nvidia Agreed to Buy Hugging Face for About $13 Billion
The deal would be Nvidia’s second-largest acquisition and expands its role in open-source artificial intelligence infrastructure.
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- Citi and Coinbase Expand 24/7 Fiat Access for 150M-Plus Users
The partnership will first connect Citi clients to Coinbase’s fiat on- and off-ramps, with stablecoin payments planned as the next phase.
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- Goldman Sachs Connects $100 Billion Treasury Fund to Lynq
FTIXX is the first external fund available on Lynq, giving institutional digital-asset firms access to an existing money-market product without tokenization.
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- Micron Schedules Fiscal Fourth-Quarter Earnings Call for Sept. 30
Micron reported $41.456 billion in fiscal third-quarter revenue and an 85% gross margin as DRAM and NAND sales surged in the first nine months of fiscal 2026.
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- World Assets Completes $49 Million in OTC WLD Sales With One-Year Lockup
The transactions were completed over the past month. Some have settled, with the remaining WLD deliveries and settlements expected this week.
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- Sei Plans Dinari Integration for Tokenized S&P 500 Equities
The planned rollout would let eligible U.S. investors use USD Coin through self-custody wallets, with Monaco as a launch partner.
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- Saudi Arabia’s Oil Revenue Rises to $210 Billion Amid War
Higher Brent prices have offset sharply lower shipments, while exports through the East-West pipeline to Yanbu resume at about 3.5 million barrels per day.
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- Circle Launches Bitcoin-Backed USDC Borrowing as Morpho Shows $18.86 Million in Borrowings
Eligible Circle Mint institutions can mint cirBTC from deposited Bitcoin and borrow USDC through lending markets on Arc and Ethereum without selling their BTC.
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- HashKey, Aptos and Daya Plan Regulated Africa Payment Corridor
The proposed B2B network would use Gulf fiat on-ramps, stablecoin settlement on Aptos and local-currency withdrawals across African markets.
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- Trump to Announce Planned $15 Billion Iowa Steel Plant
Mesabi Metallics expects production to begin in 2030, with the project potentially creating 1,750 permanent jobs and 6,000 construction positions.
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- Ether.fi Plans to End Final EigenLayer Link, Cut Restaked Share Below 1%
The liquid-staking protocol plans to remove its final structural connection to EigenLayer this quarter, leaving less than 1% of its assets in restaking.
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- Bitmine Surpasses 6 Million Ether After Weekly Purchase
The company held 6,001,302 ETH as of Sept. 27 after acquiring 17,362 ETH during the prior week.
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- Ondo Perps Adds Spot Trading for 12 Tokenized Stocks and ETFs
The spot-trading addition covers tokenized stocks and exchange-traded funds.
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- OKX US to Sell Certain Trading-Bot Positions After Sept. 30 Deadline
Grid and Smart Portfolio positions on affected USD pairs will be sold unless users move the bots to corresponding USDC pairs before the migration.
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- Prediction Markets Put Anthropic’s November IPO Odds at 56%
The company has submitted a confidential draft Form S-1 but has not confirmed a listing date, offering size, share price or valuation.
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- Nansen Adds Search for More Than 200,000 FOMO-Linked Wallets
Users can review holdings, transactions and profit-and-loss data across wallets connected to FOMO on Solana and Base.
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- Baselayer Raises $35 Million to Launch AI Agent Identity Platform
The Series A, led by M13, will support Baselayer’s newly launched tools for verifying AI agents, their business relationships and transaction permissions.
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- QatarEnergy Extends LNG Force Majeure for Five More Italy Cargoes
The extension brings Edison’s affected deliveries to 29 cargoes, totaling about 3.8 billion cubic meters of natural gas.
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- OpenAI Leaves Door Open to an IPO as Early as 2027
The company confidentially submitted a draft S-1 on June 8, 2026, but has not set an offering timetable or date for any public filing.
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- Ethena Ends USDe Incentives as Investor ENA Unlock Moves to Oct. 5
The protocol is expanding into tokenized U.S. stocks while ending ENA issuance tied to USDe growth and accelerating remaining investor allocations.
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- SiMa.ai Raises $150 Million to Expand Physical AI Platform
The Series C lifts SiMa.ai’s total funding to $500 million and values the company at $1.45 billion.
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- Bitmine Acquires $47 Million in ETH, Reaches 4.9% of Supply
The company holds 6,001,302 ETH and has staked 84% of its position, projecting $358 million in annualized staking revenue.
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- MongoDB Shares Plunge After CEO CJ Desai Joins Meta
The database company’s stock fell more than 22% premarket after Desai departed to lead a new enterprise AI business at Meta.
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- Circle, Volante Bring USDC Workflows to Banking Payment Platform
Banks can evaluate USDC minting, redemption, wallet registration, funding, notifications and wallet-to-wallet payments through existing payment infrastructure.
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