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Sources reveal that Goldman Sachs is in discussions with potential investors to participate in Nvidia's $500 billion artificial intelligence financing plan.

According to Finsmes, AI architecture development company Pathway announced the completion of a $30 million seed round financing, with participation from Id4 Ventures, TQ Ventures, Red Bridge Ventures, Kadmos Capital, and WS Investment, an investment institution under Wilson Sonsini. Databricks Chief AI Scientist Jonathan Frankle also joined as an angel investor.Pathway is developing the "Post-Transformer" architecture called BDH (Biologically-inspired Dynamic Hierarchy), aiming to address the limitations of current Transformer models that continuously rely on more data, GPUs, energy, and capital expansion. Unlike traditional large models that require periodic retraining, BDH can continuously learn with less data and achieve ongoing adaptation.It is reported that the company has appointed former Google DeepMind Gemini product head Adam Kurzrok as Chief Product Officer, responsible for the product direction based on the BDH model, including model packaging, evaluation systems, and commercial deployment.

According to on-chain analyst Yu Jin (@EmberCN), an early holder who participated in the Ethereum token issuance transferred all 2,000 ETH to Coinbase about 4 hours ago, valued at approximately $3.77 million at the current price.Based on its participation price of about $0.311 at that time, the initial cost of this asset was approximately $622, and the book return as of this transfer is about 6,060 times.

According to Thrive Holdings, the AI investment platform Thrive Holdings announced the completion of a $2 billion financing round, with the company's valuation reaching $12 billion, with participation from SoftBank, D1 Capital Partners, and Altimeter Capital.Thrive Holdings was founded in 2025 by Thrive Capital founder Joshua Kushner. Unlike traditional investment firms, it does not directly invest in AI large model research and development companies, but primarily acquires traditional service companies and integrates AI technology into business processes to achieve efficiency improvements. Its goal is to build platforms and products that bring cutting-edge artificial intelligence into key industries that millions of businesses and individuals rely on daily. The company had previously secured approximately $1 billion in initial funding.

The largest bank by asset size in Latin America, Itaú, is collaborating with OpenAssets to participate in a tokenized fixed income and investment fund test led by the industry. Brazil has become a testing ground for placing bonds, credit, and other financial assets on the blockchain under a regulatory framework.

According to Hyperbot data, due to a temporary drop in ETH prices, Huang Licheng's 25x leveraged Ethereum long position faced partial liquidation, with approximately 730 ETH being closed.Currently, his position still holds 2920 ETH, with an overall unrealized loss of $101,000.

According to The Information, AI infrastructure startup Trajectory announced the completion of a $40 million financing round, with a post-money valuation of $300 million, co-invested by Sequoia Capital. The specific financing round and other investors have not been disclosed.Trajectory was founded by researchers from tech companies such as Google and Apple, and primarily helps businesses customize open-source AI models for specific business needs, as well as optimize the software toolchain that supports AI Agent operations (referred to as "Agent Harness"). As the costs of using closed-source large models continue to rise, more and more companies are looking for alternatives: on one hand, they are reducing costs by fine-tuning and customizing open-source models, and on the other hand, they are improving the Agent execution framework to enable AI models to more effectively call tools and execute tasks.This trend is driving a new wave of entrepreneurial enthusiasm around model adaptation and Agent infrastructure. Trajectory aims to address key issues faced by enterprises in deploying AI Agents, including model performance optimization, task execution reliability, and adaptation to enterprise scenarios. The company hopes to help businesses build more efficient and cost-effective AI applications by providing model customization and Agent operation infrastructure.Investors believe that as AI evolves from simple chatbots to Agents capable of autonomously executing complex tasks, a new layer of infrastructure around model optimization and Agent engineering will become an important market. In recent years, Sequoia has also continued to increase its investment in the AI infrastructure sector, including investments in AI Agents and enterprise AI applications.

According to the Financial Times, Erebor Bank, a crypto-friendly bank co-founded by Oculus founder and Anduril founder Palmer Luckey and Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale, is seeking $1.5 billion in funding, with a pre-money valuation target of $8 billion. This valuation is nearly double the company's valuation of $435 million when it completed a $350 million funding round in December 2025.Currently, Erebor has received support from investment firms such as 8VC and Haun Ventures, and the new funding round is expected to attract participation from institutions like Lux Capital, Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), Human Capital, Valor Equity Partners, and SV Angel.As investment in AI infrastructure enters a phase of rapid expansion, Erebor is targeting the financing needs of AI companies. AI firms require substantial funds to procure GPUs, build data centers, and secure energy supplies, while traditional financial institutions are gradually exploring financing models for AI infrastructure assets. However, whether Erebor can maintain rapid growth after the cooling of cycles in the AI and crypto industries remains a key focus for the market. This funding round has not yet been finalized and is expected to be completed in the coming weeks.

According to a report by Fortune, the cybersecurity startup Corma, established in 2025, announced the completion of a $60 million seed round financing, with investors including Sequoia Capital, Khosla Ventures, and Coatue.Corma is headquartered in Tel Aviv and San Francisco, and six weeks ago, it deployed its first AI model to several Fortune 100 and 500 companies across various industries (covering healthcare, financial services, energy, critical infrastructure, and retail).Unlike current cybersecurity models primarily trained by OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, etc., for "offensive" purposes, Corma's trained model focuses on "defensive" strategies, concentrating on log and audit data analysis, identifying threats among massive events, and maintaining consistent strategies across thousands of operations. According to the company, its model has helped clients reduce threat response times by 94%.

According to Jiemian News, the embodied base model company LatentVerse announced the completion of hundreds of millions in seed round financing. Investors include Hillhouse Venture Capital, Qingliu Capital, Inno Fund, Zhiyuan, and Star Motion Era.It is understood that LatentVerse was established in May 2026 by an embodied intelligence research team from the Institute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences at Tsinghua University.

According to on-chain analysts, a certain ancient whale that acquired 40,000 ETH during the 2015 ICO extracted 7,020.84 MKR at an average price of $828.92 between September 2018 and May 2019, worth $5.81 million.After holding for over seven years, the whale transferred 3,510.42 MKR to a new address for the first time 4 hours ago, worth approximately $4.41 million, with an unrealized profit of $1.506 million, and has not yet transferred or sold.

According to monitoring by Lookonchain, an Ethereum ICO participant (0x6a5...5e5) deposited 0.1 ETH into Coinbase after 11 years of silence.The address initially invested only $620 to participate in the ICO and received 2000 ETH, which is currently worth $3.83 million, yielding a return of 6184 times.

According to TheDataNerd monitoring, recently a whale with a 40x leverage short position of 102 million dollars in Bitcoin faced partial liquidation, with a loss of 1.46 million dollars in the past week.Currently, the margin call has reduced the short position to approximately 60,000,000 dollars, with an opening price of 64,212.5 dollars and a liquidation price of 65,310.2 dollars.

RWA e-commerce financing platform Dow Protocol announced the completion of a $10.5 million seed round financing, with participation from MH Ventures, Mapleblock, Animoca Brands, Arcane Group, HSKChain, Essentia Partners, and Quartet Group.According to reports, Dow Protocol builds a PayFi RWA structure for e-commerce operating capital, specifically addressing the working capital needs of e-commerce merchants. Dow Protocol allows merchants to receive funds within seconds by providing loans in advance based on the merchants' accounts receivable and credit risk data through asset service providers. The repayment and risk system is natively integrated into the e-commerce platform, with funds automatically deducted from the merchant's platform balance.

Decentralized stablecoin USDD announced that with the launch of the second season of TRON DeFi Summer, its summer earning program in collaboration with Binance Wallet and JustLend DAO is now live. This event will run from today until October 4th at 07:59 (Singapore time), and participating users can share a total reward of $900,000.Among them, users who complete specified deposits or purchase designated activity treasury assets through Binance Wallet can share a total value of $300,000 TRX exclusive airdrop; by purchasing USDD through JustLend, users can enjoy the basic APR and also participate in sharing a prize pool of 600,000 USDD, with no upper limit on the amount users can participate with.

The research organization SemiAnalysis released an analysis indicating that Google DeepMind is no longer among the leading AI laboratories. A week prior, DeepMind co-founder Demis Hassabis stepped back from daily operations, and key members such as Google Chief Scientist Jeff Dean and Gemini co-lead Oriol Vinyals left to establish a new lab called Discovery Loop. The analysis suggests that the long-term struggle within Google over computing power allocation between Gemini and GCP has concluded with GCP emerging victorious.SemiAnalysis stated that Gemini 3.5 Pro has been canceled, and Gemini 3.6 Flash's performance is inferior to that of leading Chinese open-source models and Grok 4.5. Currently, Gemini has fallen to the 8th or 9th position in the large model rankings. Meanwhile, GCP is selling a large number of TPUs to competitors like Anthropic, having secured long-term leasing and sales contracts for hundreds of thousands of TPUs over the past nine months. The Tokenomics model estimates that Gemini's own ARR is about $12 billion, while GCP's third-party AI cloud service revenue is expected to exceed $73 billion by the end of 2027, with TPU system sales contributing an additional over $120 billion. GCP's latest quarterly growth rate is 82%, and it is expected to accelerate to over 100% by 2027 due to TPU system sales, contributing approximately $3 to Google's earnings per share.

AI infrastructure company Firmus announced on August 7 that it has completed a $2 billion equity financing, with a post-money valuation exceeding $10.5 billion, nearly doubling the $5.5 billion valuation from the previous round in April. This round of financing saw additional investments from NVIDIA and Coatue Management, with funds from Blackstone and Jane Street also participating.Firmus is building its infrastructure based on the NVIDIA DSX AI Factory reference architecture, with an agreement reached at the end of June for Firmus to purchase NVIDIA equipment and sell its supported cloud services. The funds from this round will be used to accelerate the Project Southgate initiative in Australia and expand in the Asia-Pacific region, including the recently announced project in Indonesia. Firmus co-CEO Oliver Curtis stated that the new funds will support the company's simultaneous advancement in the Australian and Asia-Pacific markets.

According to Bloomberg, to advance the landmark cryptocurrency legislation "Clarity Act," bipartisan senators have proposed an ethical provision to Trump that may include a clause allowing the president to defer capital gains tax on his cryptocurrency assets. The proposal requires the president to divest from cryptocurrency-related businesses, and the relevant terms are still being negotiated between the White House and lawmakers. In June 2025, Trump reported that his family's cryptocurrency business generated over $1.4 billion in revenue, indicating that most of his income has come from digital assets benefiting from his own policies. Democratic senators have made strong ethical provisions a condition for supporting the bill, which aims to clarify the regulatory authority over the cryptocurrency industry.

Vangrid announced the completion of a $9 million seed round financing, with participation from HashKey, Borderless, Crypto.com Capital, Animoca Brands, Gate Labs, and Mapleblock Capital.The main business of the project is to collect spatial data, where users collect geographic location data through smartphones and receive rewards. The data is sold to Physical AI developers, including robotics, autonomous agents, and digital model developers, after being 3D modeled and verified on-chain. Vangrid stated that its network is built on Base and uses Ethereum proof services to verify data batches, with public browsers showing that it has completed nearly 100,000 verification collections and over 1,300 batches of proof.

According to Dealstreetasia, Singapore-based AI infrastructure startup Acrab announced the completion of a $130 million Series B funding round, with participation from Vertex Growth and others. To date, the total funding raised has exceeded $480 million.The company has built a full-stack AI computing platform that includes self-developed chips, edge AI models, and software orchestration to support the real-time operation and task execution of AI Agents. The new funds will be used to expand product capacity, enhance the technology ecosystem, and accelerate the development of the next-generation AI computing platform.