BlockBeats News, February 27th, AI company OpenAI officially announced the completion of a new round of financing, with a financing amount of up to $110 billion and a pre-money valuation of $730 billion. This round of financing has been confirmed by multiple media outlets as the largest single financing in global corporate history, far exceeding its previous record of $40 billion in 2025.
The main investors in this round include: Amazon: invested $50 billion
Nvidia: invested $30 billion
SoftBank: invested $30 billion
OpenAI officially stated that this massive financing will be mainly used to accelerate AI infrastructure construction, expand computing power, and research and develop next-generation cutting-edge models, promoting the mission of "AI benefiting all of humanity."
After this round is completed, the company's post-money valuation is expected to exceed $840 billion. This milestone financing highlights the unprecedented demand for massive capital in the AI industry and further solidifies OpenAI's leading position in the global AI competition.
BlockBeats News, February 28th: South Korean crypto KOL Joshua (MOZAIK) disclosed the results of a private survey targeting around 120 crypto KOLs, with detailed feedback from 55 participants. The survey was conducted from mid-January to early February.
The data shows that out of the 55 respondents, 50 have actively participated in the stock market, 5 are newcomers, and some are still observing. Overall, there is a trend of fund and attention migration from "Crypto → Equities."
Popular Sectors (based on the number of holders)
AI (11 people)
Metals & Commodities (8 people)
Energy & Power (8 people)
Storage & Semiconductors (7 people)
Robotics & Humanoid Robots (6 people)
Aerospace & Defense (6 people)
Uranium & Nuclear Energy (4 people)
Rare Earth Elements (3 people)
Chinese Stocks (3 people)
Top Individual Stocks (most mentioned)
Intel (4 mentions)
Alphabet (4 mentions)
Rocket Lab (4 mentions)
AST SpaceMobile (4 mentions)
Amazon (4 mentions)
Core Consensus Themes
The "Storage Shortage" logic driven by the AI supercycle has become a high certainty two-year-level bet.
The rotation from "Big Tech → Metals" has become a key macro allocation theme.
Humanoid robots are seen as a long-term opportunity at the level similar to "early-stage Bitcoin."
Aerospace, defense, critical minerals, rare earth elements, and nuclear energy are included as structural opportunities within the supply chain to mitigate risks and geopolitical frameworks.
Regarding brokerage choices, Interactive Brokers have the highest usage proportion (24/55), followed by Robinhood.
Overall, the survey reflects that some native crypto traders are shifting their focus and funds toward the traditional stock market, particularly focusing on AI infrastructure, energy transition, and strategic resource sectors. The initiator of the survey emphasized that these results are not a scientific sample but rather a phased observation of a private community.
BlockBeats News, February 27th, OpenAI founder Sam Altman stated that continues to see rapid demand growth. Will consider going public at the appropriate time. Partnering with Amazon can bring new demand and massive incremental revenue.
Hopes to establish a long-term, deep cooperation with Amazon. Does not believe the U.S. should pose a threat of data protection legislation to AI companies. (Golden Ten)
BlockBeats News, February 27th, according to Bitget market data, pre-market trading of US stocks related to the crypto sector experienced a general decline, including:
· MSTR down 2.10%;
· COIN down 2.14%;
· HOOD down 3.03%;
· SBET down 3.47%;
· BMNR down 2.40%;
· CRCL down 3.35%.
BlockBeats News, February 27th, according to Forbes, stablecoin issuer Tether's recent secondary market trading valuation ranges from 350 billion to 375 billion US dollars. If calculated within this range, the wealth of the company's core shareholders may see a substantial increase.
Forbes currently values Tether at around 200 billion US dollars based on market interviews (higher than 500 billion US dollars a year ago). If calculated based on this valuation:
CFO Giancarlo Devasini (holding approximately 44–45%) has a wealth of around 89 billion US dollars.
CEO Paolo Ardoino and former CEO Jean-Louis van der Velde (each around 19%) have a wealth of around 38 billion US dollars.
Chief Legal Officer Stuart Hoegner (around 12%) has a wealth of around 25 billion US dollars.
If calculated based on a 350 billion US dollar valuation, Devasini's share value would exceed 156 billion US dollars, higher than Warren Buffett's current wealth of around 147.8 billion US dollars. In terms of operational data:
Tether's profit last year (unaudited) was around 10 billion US dollars.
The USDT market cap is around 184 billion US dollars.
Over 80% of the reserve assets are US Treasuries and short-term securities.
Holding around 23 billion US dollars in gold, and 6.4 billion US dollars in Bitcoin.
A venture capital portfolio of over 120 companies, with a scale exceeding 10 billion US dollars.
In addition, Tether is accelerating its expansion into the US market, launching the compliant stablecoin USAT, and appointing former White House crypto czar Bo Hines as the US Business CEO. With the intensifying stablecoin competition and stricter US regulations, this round of financing by Tether is seen as a crucial move to enhance institutional credibility and policy influence.
BlockBeats News, February 27th. According to South Korean media, in the news material released by the South Korean National Tax Service on the results of the "High Amount, Habitual Tax Defaulter On-Site Inspection," the mnemonic phrase of the seized cryptocurrency wallet was mistakenly fully exposed without any mosaic processing, leading to suspected hackers transferring the related assets based on it.
It was reported that on February 26th, the National Tax Service released information stating that during on-site inspections of 124 tax defaulters, approximately 8.1 billion South Korean won in assets were seized in total. Among them, "Case 3" involved the seizure of 4 cryptocurrency hardware wallet USBs from a defaulter's residence drawer. The issue lies in the fact that in the on-site photos released with the press release, a paper with the wallet recovery mnemonic phrase was clearly visible next to the Ledger hardware wallet device.
Blockchain explorer Etherscan's on-chain records show that shortly after the mnemonic phrase was exposed (early on the 27th), around 4 million PRTG tokens were transferred in three transactions to unknown addresses from the wallet. Before the transfers, the related address first received a small amount of ETH as gas fees. The transferred assets were valued at approximately 4.8 million USD (about 640 million South Korean won).
Some scholars criticized this action as equivalent to "publicly revealing the wallet key," exposing the law enforcement's fundamental lack of knowledge in managing digital asset security.
