Anthropic launched a $1.5B JV with Goldman Sachs, Blackstone, and Hellman & Friedman to embed AI inside PE-backed companies. OpenAI announced The Development Company, a $10B JV raising $4B from 19 investors including TPG, Brookfield, and Bain Capital.
Bret Taylor's Sierra raised a $950M Series E led by Tiger Global and Google Ventures, pushing valuation to $15.8B and total capital raised past $1B. Sierra hit $150M ARR in February and counts one in three of the world's largest banks as customers.
DTCC confirmed a July 2026 limited production pilot and October full rollout for its tokenized securities platform, covering Russell 1000 constituents, major index ETFs, and US Treasuries, with BlackRock, Goldman Sachs, Circle, and 50+ firms in the working group.
Haun Ventures has closed a $1 billion fund split evenly between early and later-stage vehicles, targeting next-gen financial infrastructure, tokenized assets, and the emerging agentic economy where AI systems transact on behalf of humans.
DTCC custodies $114 trillion in assets and clears virtually every US stock and bond trade. When it launches its tokenization platform in October 2026, the debate over whether mainstream finance will move on-chain ends — and a harder question begins.
Polymarket + Bitget Wallet Q1 2026 report: $25.7B monthly volume in March, 1.29M active wallets, annualized run-rate $240B. Retail users are returning 4x more often and trading across more categories — the 'casino' label is losing accuracy.
Paradigm GP Dan Robinson published PACTs on May 1 — Provable Address-Control Timestamps — letting Bitcoin holders cryptographically prove key control before quantum computers could derive them, without moving coins. ~1.1M BTC ($75B) in exposed P2PK addresses are at stake.
OpenClaw (323k+ GitHub stars) turned the $599 Mac mini into the default local-AI workstation — and Apple cannot build them fast enough. Tim Cook Q2 2026: Mac revenue $8.4B, up 6% YoY. Supply constraints may last several months.
Solana yield exchange Exponent raised $5 million seed led by Multicoin Capital, with Solana Ventures, RockawayX, L1D and angels Anatoly Yakovenko and Nick Ducoff. Total raised: $7.1M. The platform has cleared $2B+ in yield volume across 35,000+ users since late 2024.
Tether Investments proposed merging Twenty-One Capital (43,514 BTC, $3.3B), Jack Mallers' Strike (operating in 100+ countries) and Raphael Zagury's Elektron Energy (~50 EH/s mining capacity) into a single publicly listed Bitcoin platform. XXI shares jumped 8% in after-hours trading.
MARA Holdings agreed to acquire Long Ridge Energy & Power from FTAI Infrastructure for $1.5 billion, adding a 505-MW Ohio gas plant, 1,600+ acres and a path to 1 gigawatt of HPC, AI and Bitcoin-mining capacity.
Sweden's Legora closed a $50 million Series D extension, bringing the round to $600 million at a $5.6 billion post-money valuation. Nvidia's NVentures, Atlassian, Adams Street and Insight all participated, and ARR has crossed $100 million.