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Jump Trading is a global proprietary trading firm using quantitative strategies and high-frequency trading across equities, futures, and crypto markets.
Jump Trading and DRW are putting traders and capital into GPU compute contracts, starting with private 3-to-5-year bilateral deals. The exchange-listed layer that would open the market to more hedgers still waits on a CFTC decision.
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Sequoia led a $30 million seed round in Catalyst, a startup founded in 2025 to build AI trading agents for retail investors. How closely users check each agent-built trade before it runs will decide how much of the investing judgement sits with software.
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Securitize is bringing tokens of 12 US stocks, including Apple and Nvidia, to Solana, each backed one-for-one by a share. Its NYSE and OKXICE listings wait on venues that have yet to launch, so for now the tokens trade on Securitize's own Solana platform.
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The first customer is also the lead investor, which blunts the validation. What is left is a non-Nvidia inference system buyers can benchmark instead of read about.
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The $375m Series C priced Positron at $3.5bn before the money, and the up-to-$500m follow-on has to be sitting at $4.5bn pre-money to reach the $5bn headline, which only holds if every dollar of it is drawn.
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A former quant put $538.6m of 24-hour volume beside $3.1m of open interest on Kalshi's ether perpetual and called it proof of wash trading. Kalshi's crypto lead answered that the dollar sign means notional payout.
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The $875 million round prices an inference chip whose performance figures come from cycle-accurate simulations and whose production date has moved from early 2027 into the second half. The system Positron ships today runs on HBM.
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Hong Kong is legislating tax breaks for fund and private equity managers while Singapore markets access to US and Chinese AI models. According to AIMA, both are selling the same product: certainty.
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