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According to Axios, Meta Platforms has acquired the Swedish artificial intelligence startup Stilla.ai.

The social-first on-chain trading platform fomo announced the acquisition of proprietary software and intellectual property developed by the on-chain data aggregation and infrastructure company Mobula. Some members of the Mobula team will join fomo to help build its own data capabilities. At the time of the acquisition, fomo's user count had doubled since early July to over 1.9 million, with more than 30,000 new users added daily. In August, active users exceeded 1.2 million, and the iOS App Store's finance category reached a peak of 3rd place.fomo's trading volume increased from $500 million in June to $1.5 billion in July, and it is on track to exceed $2.8 billion in monthly trading volume and approximately $17 million in monthly revenue in August. Co-founder and CEO Paul Erlanger stated that acquiring these assets gives the company greater control over its infrastructure as it expands. Mobula was founded by Sacha Marcus, who will join the fomo engineering team along with CTO Sacha Delhoux and infrastructure head Cyril Conan.fomo was established in 2025 and is headquartered in New York, supported by Index Ventures, Union Square Ventures, and Benchmark. The platform simplifies on-chain trading through a single account, with fomo Web accounting for about 25% of the total, and has launched social trading features such as Clans.

BitGo announced the completion of its acquisition of NYDIG's institutional trading business, which was completed in a two-step merger, with a total consideration of approximately $42.5 million, including $7 million in cash and about $35.5 million in BitGo stock. About 30 NYDIG employees will transition with the business, and the deal also includes Earnout terms linked to revenue milestones.The business provides derivatives, structured products, financing, and capital market solutions for asset management firms, hedge funds, corporations, and family offices. BitGo CEO Mike Belshe stated that institutional clients are increasingly looking to partner with trusted partners that can support the entire lifecycle of digital assets, covering custody, trading, financing, and settlement.For NYDIG, the sale allows it to focus on power generation, Bitcoin mining, and high-performance computing data center businesses, with the company stating that its development pipeline exceeds 3 gigawatts. BitGo went public on the NYSE this year, with a valuation of approximately $2 billion, and launched the USDS stablecoin.

BitGo announced that it has acquired NYDIG's institutional trading business and related assets, incorporating derivatives, structured products, financing, and capital market capabilities into its institutional platform. Approximately 30 NYDIG employees will join BitGo, and NYDIG's institutional trading client relationships will also transfer to BitGo along with the business.BitGo will integrate the related business with its custody, trading, settlement, and wallet infrastructure. NYDIG will focus its resources on power generation, Bitcoin mining, and high-performance computing data center operations. NYDIG stated that its computing power infrastructure development reserves currently exceed 3 gigawatts, with more than 1 gigawatt expected to be delivery-ready by 2027 and 2028.

Amazon officially announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire the data infrastructure company DuckLabs. The transaction is expected to be completed after meeting customary closing conditions. Upon completion of the acquisition, the DuckLabs team will join Amazon Web Services (AWS). DuckLabs is the development company behind the open-source analytical database DuckDB.AWS stated that both parties have been collaborating since 2024, and this acquisition aims to combine DuckLabs' technical capabilities in database engineering to further enhance the speed, usability, and cost efficiency of AWS data analytics services. DuckDB co-founders Hannes Mühleisen and Mark Raasveldt will continue to lead the team after joining AWS and will be responsible for the technical development direction of the open-source project. Amazon emphasized that this transaction does not include the acquisition of the DuckDB open-source project itself; DuckDB will continue to be maintained by the independent DuckDB Foundation and will remain freely available under the MIT license. Amazon stated that the DuckDB user experience will not change before and after the transaction, and the project will continue to operate as open source. In the future, AWS will further announce specific plans for the integration of DuckLabs with AWS business.

Cryptocurrency investment firm RockawayX announced the acquisition of the crypto hedge fund Relayer Capital to incorporate long-short strategies into its existing platform and expand its business footprint in the United States. RockawayX manages approximately $2 billion in assets, and Relayer will be renamed RockawayX Liquid Opportunities Fund, focusing on uncovering "undervalued liquidity tokens and crypto-related stocks." After the acquisition is completed, Relayer founder Austin Barack will serve as the chief investment officer of the fund, with Forbes citing informed sources that the company plans to raise $150 million for the fund.According to the announcement, Relayer's liquidity strategy has achieved approximately 70% net returns this year, outperforming a weighted basket of Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana by 86% as of August 21. The strategy expresses fundamental views on crypto tokens through long and short positions and pairs trading, while reducing overall market exposure at appropriate times. RockawayX CEO Viktor Fischer stated that now is the "right time" to implement this strategy, as there are crypto companies with real revenue and strong fundamentals emerging in the market, but inefficiencies and mispricing still exist, providing good opportunities for active investors.This transaction occurs amid a recent rebound in the crypto market, with Bitcoin recording its largest weekly dollar gain in history last week, dropping 1.68% to $79,064 in the past 24 hours after briefly reaching a high of around $81,000.

According to CryptoBriefing, OpenAI has acquired the team behind the real-time database platform InstantDB, which previously served over 17,000 users and 400,000 applications, processing approximately 2.5 billion transactions. InstantDB offers Backend as a Service (BaaS) products that help developers handle real-time data synchronization. Existing users must migrate their cloud-hosted applications by August 31, 2027, and the open-source code will continue to be available for self-deployment.InstantDB is a Y Combinator 2022 incubated project, and the founding team will join OpenAI to strengthen the infrastructure for AI agent applications, as their AI agents require persistent state management, real-time data read/write, and concurrent conflict handling capabilities, aligning with InstantDB's focus on real-time data synchronization infrastructure.

Cypherpunk Mining announced its official launch, and its 4.2 Gsol/s Equihash computing power deployed in the United States has made it the largest Zcash miner in the world.The company has acquired a fleet of Bitmain Z15 Pro miners previously deployed across the United States by signing a $33.33333 million asset acquisition agreement with Winklevoss Capital, currently producing about 7,800 ZEC per month and has achieved cash flow.Cypherpunk stated that the current unit electricity revenue from Zcash mining is about twice that of AI data center hosting and three times that of Bitcoin mining, and the capital expenditure for equipment is far lower than that of AI infrastructure. The company has no debt and plans to gradually vertically integrate into data centers and power assets.

According to Business Insider, Stripe is in talks to acquire the AI model marketplace startup OpenRouter for over $8 billion.If the deal goes through, the more than 17% stake held by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) will be worth nearly $1.5 billion, while it initially invested about $20 million; Menlo Ventures holds over 6% of the stake, having invested less than $50 million, and its current value has exceeded $500 million. The total return for the two institutions is close to $2 billion.

Goldman Sachs announced the acquisition of NEOS Investments, which is an ETF issuer managing assets totaling $30 billion, including the Bitcoin High Income ETF (BTCI), which manages assets of $1.1 billion.

Stablecoin card issuance and payment platform Rain announced the acquisition of the branded stored value and closed-loop payment platform Ansa. The Ansa team will join Rain, and its founder and CEO Sophia Goldberg will serve as the head of payments at Rain.Ansa provides merchants with branded prepaid wallets and incentive tools, supporting the use of stored value balances through Mastercard rails at existing POS terminals. Rain plans to combine its own Visa and Mastercard issuance capabilities to expand stored value balances to more merchant scenarios and integrate with wallets, rewards, and stablecoin functionalities. Ansa previously raised approximately $19.4 million.

According to Bloomberg, Nasdaq has announced that it has reached an agreement to acquire the dark pool trading platform LeveL Markets to further expand its footprint in the stock market trading infrastructure sector.This transaction is also part of Nasdaq's ongoing efforts to extend the boundaries of traditional exchange business. In recent years, Nasdaq has transformed from a single stock trading platform into a comprehensive market infrastructure provider covering trading, market data, indices, clearing, and fintech services.Insiders revealed that Nasdaq will acquire 100% of LeveL Markets. The dark pool trading platform allows institutional investors to conduct large stock trades without disclosing order information, which can reduce market impact and enhance execution efficiency.As institutional trading demand increases and competition in the stock market intensifies, trading platform operators are expanding their influence in capital market infrastructure by acquiring alternative trading systems, data services, and trading technology platforms.

The real-time cross-border capital flow platform OpenFX announced the acquisition of Global Ledger, with its founder Tyler McIntyre appointed as the head of banking. At the same time, it launched a multi-currency account service. McIntyre previously co-founded the new bank Novo, which serves over 300,000 businesses and is valued at over $700 million.The account allows customers to make payments in local currency, and companies can hold received funds directly without the need for immediate conversion. OpenFX has launched the USD account in its first phase, which can receive and send funds to over 100 countries through ACH, Fedwire, and SWIFT, and supports instant connection with stablecoins like USDC.

According to The Information, OpenAI has acquired some patent assets from the AI chip startup Rain AI, after the two parties previously negotiated the acquisition but ultimately failed to complete the deal.Rain AI is a startup focused on the development of AI chips, founded about 8 years ago, with investors including OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. Reports indicate that due to the failure of the acquisition plan, Rain AI has nearly ceased operations recently, and most employees have left the company.This patent acquisition shows that although some companies personally invested in by Altman may have commercial collaborations with OpenAI, this does not mean that all invested enterprises will receive direct support from OpenAI.Rain AI was previously dedicated to developing specialized chips for artificial intelligence computing, hoping to reduce the operating costs of AI models through customized hardware and enhance edge computing capabilities. As competition in AI infrastructure intensifies, chips, computing power, and energy have become core strategic resources for large AI companies.Industry insiders believe that OpenAI's acquisition of Rain AI's related patents may be aimed at absorbing its technological assets and strengthening its layout in the field of AI hardware and computing infrastructure.

According to a report by Fortune, stablecoin issuer Circle announced the acquisition of nearly 1,000 blockchain-related patents from IBM. Circle officially characterized this acquisition as an important measure to "advance the global internet-native financial infrastructure." Following the announcement, the company's stock price rose by about 2%.However, analysts are cautious about this acquisition—IBM's own blockchain business has essentially declared failure, and its patent portfolio reflects more of a patent application technique rather than true technological innovation.There are concerns that Circle may use this batch of patents to initiate lawsuits against competitors, collect patent licensing fees, or pressure startups, and it is also possible that they could transfer them to patent troll companies for extortion-style protection.

According to The Block, cryptocurrency financial company Galaxy Digital announced that it has acquired approximately 500 acres of land in McGregor, Texas, for the construction of its second large AI and high-performance computing (HPC) data center campus in the state. The project will be advanced in collaboration with the city of McGregor and local partners, with an initial planned capacity of 74 MW, expected to receive power supply by 2028, and plans to expand to hundreds of megawatts by 2030.Galaxy expects that the project will increase the local tax base in McGregor by at least $130 million. Galaxy CEO Mike Novogratz stated that the company has validated the model of long-term cooperation between private data centers and rural communities at the Helios data center in Dickens County, Texas over the past few years, and the new campus will be the next step in Galaxy's strategy to build a multi-campus data center business. Previously, Galaxy acquired the Helios Bitcoin mining campus in West Texas in 2022 and gradually shifted towards AI and high-performance computing business. Currently, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) has approved Galaxy to expand Helios to a capacity of 1.63 GW, which has been leased by AI cloud computing company CoreWeave for 15 years.

According to BBX data, yesterday global publicly listed companies in the U.S. disclosed the latest real data on digital asset treasury construction, technology patent acquisitions, and on-chain ecological positioning. The core dynamics are as follows:Strive's total Bitcoin holdings officially surpassed 20,000 coins: According to Strive (NASDAQ: $ASST)'s latest 8-K filing submitted to the U.S. SEC, the company purchased 79 Bitcoins at an average price of approximately $65,723 between July 20 and July 24, 2026. As of July 24, Strive's total Bitcoin holdings officially reached 20,000 coins. In addition, the company's balance sheet also holds 505,000 shares of Strategy STRC preferred stock (fair value approximately $43.88 million) and about $154 million in cash, ensuring ample liquidity.Circle (NYSE: $CRCL) acquires IBM's core blockchain patent portfolio: Circle Internet Group officially announced the completion of its acquisition of the core assets of IBM's blockchain patent portfolio, covering over 680 patent families and nearly 1,000 granted patents across fields such as blockchain infrastructure, financial services, supply chain, and secure cloud operations. This acquisition makes Circle the company with the most blockchain patents in the U.S., and the patent library will fully empower the construction of on-chain infrastructures such as USDC, Circle Payments Network, and Arc. The two parties will also engage in deep commercial cooperation in the future.BitMine increased its holdings by nearly 10,000 ETH last week, with treasury staking revenue reaching $254 million: Bitmine Immersion Technologies (NYSE: $BMNR) disclosed that it increased its holdings by 9,946 Ethereum last week. As of July 26, 2026, its Ethereum holdings rose to 5,787,414 ETH (approximately 4.8% of the total circulating supply). Currently, the total value of the cryptocurrencies, cash, and equity held by the company is approximately $11.8 billion (including $268 million in cash/securities, 208 BTC, and equity in Beast Industries). Among them, staked ETH reached 4,917,189 coins (85% of the total, valued at approximately $9.6 billion), with annualized staking revenue reaching $254 million.The9 maintains a holding of 1,686 BTC and advances its AI strategy: Nasdaq-listed internet company The9 Limited (NASDAQ: $NCTY) officially stated that its total Bitcoin holdings are currently 1,686.39 coins. The company will continue to steadily promote its digital asset treasury strategy while leveraging its existing computing power and capital base to accelerate the business growth of its AI-driven platform.

According to The Block, the Japanese listed company Metaplanet has acquired Siiibo Securities, which holds a type of financial product business license, and is authorized to design and sell securities in Japan.Research firm Benchmark pointed out that the market generally views this acquisition of approximately 2.1 billion yen (about 13 million USD) as a small-scale expansion. However, Metaplanet actually plans to use this as a basis to issue Bitcoin collateralized bonds called "Bitbonds" with an annualized interest rate of about 4% to 6%, and subsequently migrate to the blockchain and settle through stablecoins, gradually forming a secondary market. Metaplanet aims to allow companies wishing to adopt a Bitcoin balance sheet strategy to issue bonds on its platform to purchase BTC, and under the "Project Nova" roadmap, to create a new type of financial institution centered around Bitcoin. Currently, the company holds approximately 43,000 BTC, making it the third largest Bitcoin treasury among publicly listed companies globally.

Circle announced the acquisition of IBM's blockchain patent portfolio, which includes over 680 patent families and nearly 1000 granted patents, covering areas such as underlying blockchain technology, banking, financial services, insurance, enterprise infrastructure, supply chain verification, and secure cloud operations.After this acquisition, Circle stated that it has become a leading company in the United States for blockchain patent holdings and will further support USDC, Circle Payments Network, Arc, and other on-chain financial products and infrastructure development. Both parties also expressed their intention to explore more business cooperation opportunities in the future.