BlockBeats News, February 28th. According to market sources, OpenAI is expected to raise about $10 billion from investors again before March. This additional funding will bring OpenAI's valuation to $850 billion.

Yesterday, 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, making it the largest single financing in global corporate history. Major investors include: Amazon, investing $50 billion; Nvidia, investing $30 billion; SoftBank, investing $30 billion.

OpenAI stated that the primary use of this massive funding will be to accelerate AI infrastructure construction, expand computing power, and develop next-generation cutting-edge models to promote the mission of "AI benefiting all of humanity."

BlockBeats News, February 28, according to Ledger Insights, the Japanese yen stablecoin issuer JPYC has completed a approximately $12 million Series B funding round, led by Asteria Corporation.

JPYC officially launched in October 2025 under Japan's Fund Settlement Service Provider regulatory framework, positioned as an onshore yen stablecoin. It has partnered with Densan Systems, which covers approximately 65,000 convenience stores in Japan, to explore domestic payments, cross-border remittances, and tourist payment applications in convenience store scenarios. In addition, JPYC has also participated in Circle's StableFX stablecoin foreign exchange quoting system for cross-border settlement.

BlockBeats News, February 27th, OpenAI announced a new investment of $11 billion at a valuation of $730 billion. (Golden Ten)

BlockBeats News, February 26th, according to The Block, cryptocurrency disclosure company Bluprynt raised $4.25 million in oversubscribed seed funding, led by Valor Capital Group, with participation from Coinbase Ventures, Robinhood, Selah Ventures, Quona Capital, and individual investors including Nubank co-founder Edward Wible.

Bluprynt, founded and led by financial policy expert Dr. Christopher J. Brummer, aims to streamline the global digital asset compliance process.

BlockBeats News, February 26th, According to Fortune, crypto startup STS Digital has completed a $30 million financing round. The round was led by CMT Digital, with participation from Kraken, Arrington Capital, and an investment firm affiliated with Fidelity.

STS Digital's co-founder and CEO, Maxime Seiler, declined to disclose the company's valuation for this round of financing.

STS Digital focuses on serving institutional investors, enabling deep-pocketed traders to buy and sell cryptocurrency options. The company also functions as an options market maker.

BlockBeats News, February 26th, according to Bloomberg, Malaysian-listed digital infrastructure provider Zetrix AI Bhd. has secured around $40 million in funding from the World Bank's investment arm, and plans to list its artificial intelligence subsidiary on Nasdaq by the end of this year.

Zetrix stated that this equity injection from the International Finance Corporation (IFC) will be used to expand digital infrastructure coverage in Malaysia, Southeast Asia, and other emerging markets.

IFC is a member of the World Bank Group specialized in investing in and providing financing to the private sector, primarily supporting enterprise development and infrastructure construction in emerging markets.

BlockBeats News, February 26th, according to Fortune report, AI startup Callosum has completed a $10.25 million financing. Callosum is developing software that can coordinate AI workloads across various types of chips, challenging the industry's reliance on running increasingly large models on a large number of identical NVIDIA GPUs.

This round of financing was led by Plural, a European early-stage venture capital fund, with participation from angel investors including Charlie Songhurst, Stan Boland of FiveAI, and John Lazar of the Royal Academy of Engineering.

BlockBeats News, February 26, t54 Labs announced the completion of a $5 million seed round of financing, co-led by Anagram, PL Capital, and Franklin Templeton, with participation from Ripple and other institutions. Primarily providing infrastructure for self-sovereign AI agents to enable identity verification (“know your agent”), real-time risk control, compliance, and settlement integration, and planning to offer credit limits to agents based on identity and risk scores.

The protocol is currently deployed on the XRP Ledger, Solana, and Base, and has launched the open-source component x402-secure built on the x402 payment protocol, which was developed based on Coinbase incubation. (The Block)

BlockBeats News, February 25th, the Solana-based prediction market protocol TBD completed a $3 million seed round of financing, led by CMT Digital and ParaFi, with participation from Jump Crypto. Prior to this, TBD had completed an $800,000 angel round of financing, with participants including Slow Ventures General Partner Sam Lessin, Solana co-founder Raj Gokal, Polygon Labs CEO Mark Boiron, Wintermute founder Evgeny Gaevoy, and dYdX founder Antonio Juliano.

TBD was co-founded by former dYdX team members and will launch officially after completing its beta testing.

BlockBeats News, February 25th, according to Globenewswire, AI-driven financial and cryptocurrency market research platform Finrob announced the completion of a $3.9 million seed round, with participation from Maven 11, Placeholder VC, Node Capital, Archetype, Dispersion Capital, and Fabric Ventures.

The company provides real-time on-chain analysis, market intelligence, and in-depth research through a unified conversational interface by connecting platforms such as Glassnode, CoinGecko, DefiLlama, etc. The new funding will be used to accelerate product development, expand data integration, and enhance platform research capabilities.