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According to BBX data, yesterday the global US stock market and companies listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange made significant moves in the accumulation of digital asset reserves. The latest updates from two core companies are as follows:GPUS core treasury breaks the 1,000 mark: Artificial intelligence data center company Hyperscale Data, Inc. (NYSE American: $GPUS) officially announced that the number of bitcoins held in its treasury has officially exceeded 1,000. Management stated that the company will continue to closely align with market conditions and existing capital allocation opportunities, supported by its core data center business, to continuously manage and expand its bitcoin reserve scale.Metaplanet raises $137 million through targeted private placement: Metaplanet Inc. (TSE: $3350) announced that it will issue new shares to specific institutional investors through the Third-Party Allotment mechanism under Japanese securities law, aiming to raise approximately $137 million (equivalent to 21.4 billion yen), with all funds to be used for purchasing bitcoin. The company accumulated 2,823 BTC in Q2 this year, and as of June 30, its total holdings have reached 43,000 BTC (valued at approximately $2.67 billion). Based on the current market price of about $62,000 per coin, this lightning private placement is expected to add approximately 2,210 BTC to its reserves, helping it strive towards its ultimate goal of 100,000 BTC by the end of the year.

According to reports from Jiemian News, Kingsoft Cloud will accelerate the construction of GPU computing clusters in the second half of the year to meet the explosive growth in computing power demand from major clients. Among them, Xiaomi's demand for Kingsoft Cloud's GPU computing power has upgraded from a ten-thousand-card cluster, with the related budget significantly increasing from nearly 4 billion yuan to over 10 billion yuan. In addition, Alibaba's large model team has signed a 5-year computing power leasing contract with Kingsoft Cloud, involving more than 3,000 eight-card GPU servers. Based on the contracted price, the annualized revenue after full delivery will exceed 4 billion yuan.To meet the surging customer demand, Kingsoft Cloud's capital expenditure plan for 2026 has been raised to 15 billion yuan, with an annual revenue target of 12.5 billion to 13.5 billion yuan. It is reported that due to tight upstream supply, Kingsoft Cloud is currently only accepting long-term contracts from clients for 3 to 5 years, and some orders are facing delivery delays. Due to concerns about the risk of impairment of high-level card assets, Kingsoft Cloud is currently pausing aggressive hardware expansion, anticipating that the prices of computing hardware may reach a turning point for decline in the third quarter of this year.

According to a report by the Financial Associated Press, Nvidia announced a new AI infrastructure collaboration model on July 1 local time. Through revenue-sharing and credit-support mechanisms, it will jointly build large-scale, multi-tenant AI factories with AI cloud service providers, helping startups, model developers, enterprises, and research institutions to access AI computing power more quickly, while creating a sustainable revenue stream for Nvidia linked to computing power usage.According to the plan, AI cloud vendors will deploy AI factories based on the Nvidia DSX AI Factory architecture to provide cloud computing services. The first batch of partners includes Sharon AI and Firmus. Among them, Sharon AI plans to deploy up to 40,000 NVIDIA Grace Blackwell GB300 GPUs; Firmus will build a DSX AI factory park on Batam Island, Indonesia, with plans to expand to a power scale of 360 megawatts and deploy up to 170,000 Nvidia GPUs.

According to DataCenterDynamics, Bitcoin mining company and data center Hive Digital Technologies announced that it will raise $100 million by issuing zero-coupon convertible senior notes maturing in 2031 to further expand its computing power infrastructure.In addition, the company has signed a non-binding letter of intent (LOI) with a Swedish sovereign technology company that has an investment-grade credit rating, intending to lease approximately 30MW of computing power resources at its data center for a term of up to 10 years.According to the agreement, Hive will deploy approximately 25MW of IT computing capacity and plans to use up to 10,000 Nvidia GB300 GPUs; however, the letter of intent still requires further negotiation and the signing of a final formal agreement.

According to The Information, cloud computing startup Runpod announced the completion of a $100 million financing round and stated that it has rejected multiple acquisition offers, with specific investor information not yet disclosed.The company focuses on providing GPU computing power rental services for developers, supporting the deployment of open-source models and AI applications. Currently, this sector generally relies on NVIDIA GPU servers for computing resources. As AI applications expand, the market demand for low-cost, highly flexible computing infrastructure continues to rise, driving up the valuations and financing enthusiasm for cloud service providers like Runpod.

According to The Information, informed sources reveal that Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan are exploring trading methods based on the cost of computing power, including futures contracts related to GPU leasing prices.As one of the scarcest resources in the AI boom, related futures are expected to be listed by exchanges later this year. Industry insiders say this initiative demonstrates that hundreds of billions of dollars flowing into data centers and the chip sector are reshaping the financial market landscape. For banks providing financing for AI infrastructure construction, such innovative tools may become new means of managing risk.

The prediction market platform Polymarket has disclosed that it has completed its first institutional-level on-chain block trade, a six-figure dollar transaction executed by digital asset broker FalconX and AI risk clearing infrastructure startup Anera Labs on the Polygon blockchain. The transaction involved contracts related to the Ornn Compute Price Index, which is used to track the rental prices of NVIDIA H100 GPU chips.Polymarket stated that this is the first on-chain block trade involving institutional participation in the prediction market space. In the future, FalconX will also serve as the exclusive market maker for block trades on the Polymarket platform to support the liquidity needs and price discovery for institutional clients.

Bitcoin mining company IREN announced the completion of an investment-grade GPU financing totaling $3.65 billion to support its AI cloud contract signed with Microsoft.The financing includes $2.1 billion in U.S. private placement bonds and $1.55 billion in delayed draw term loans, with a combined debt cost of 6%.It is reported that this financing received an A rating from Fitch and an A (low) rating from DBRS, making it the highest-rated investment-grade GPU financing project currently publicly disclosed, and also the first GPU financing case in the U.S. private placement market.IREN stated that the financing is secured by GPU assets and related contract cash flows, which helps optimize the capital structure and supports the company in expanding AI Cloud capacity to 480MW by the end of 2026.

Morgan Stanley pointed out that by 2030, the global semiconductor industry market size could reach $1.5 trillion, with AI-related semiconductor products contributing a significant share. The capital expenditure of major cloud service providers remains strong.Morgan Stanley's cloud capital expenditure tracker estimates that by 2026, cloud capital expenditure will approach $811 billion. Research suggests that agent-based artificial intelligence has generated a growing opportunity for CPU applications. As AI shifts from reasoning to execution, GPU computing intensity increases. The agency has raised the total addressable market (TAM) for orchestration CPU in the baseline scenario to $79 billion, with the market added value (TAM) forecast for CPU orchestration technology reaching $238 billion.

According to Bloomberg, the parent company of the New York Stock Exchange, Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), announced plans to launch futures contracts based on "computing power" to track changes in the costs of computing power such as GPUs that support the AI industry. This product still requires regulatory approval.It is reported that ICE will collaborate with financial infrastructure company Ornn to develop a pricing system for related derivatives based on its GPU cost index. This index will be used to support computing power futures contracts.

According to GlobeNewswire, Nasdaq-listed Bitcoin treasury company K Wave Media announced the launch of a series of strategic transformation initiatives, including securing up to $485 million in capital support for building an AI infrastructure platform, focusing on data center investments, GPU computing power leasing, and mergers and collaborations in key AI infrastructure.In addition, the company has approved the sale of its wholly-owned subsidiary Play Co., Ltd. to the original shareholders, a transaction expected to reduce debt by approximately $48 million, which still requires shareholder approval at the annual meeting in July 2026.

The decentralized GPU computing infrastructure Aethir officially launched its managed Kubernetes service today, strategically extending into the enterprise AI infrastructure market.Kubernetes (K8s), as the "gold standard" in the open-source container orchestration field, can automate the management of large-scale server clusters. Aethir's move aims to provide global AI teams with a high-performance development environment that is ready to use without the hassle of managing underlying hardware.The core features of Aethir's managed Kubernetes service include: minute-level cluster deployment: enterprises can launch GPU-supported Kubernetes clusters in minutes through a self-service API; high-end GPU support: offering the latest generation of GPUs such as NVIDIA H100, H200, B200; transparent pricing: starting at $1.45/hour with no outbound data transfer fees; enterprise-grade security: zero-trust access control, RBAC, and complete audit logs.Aethir offers a pricing model that is lower than traditional centralized cloud providers. By eliminating redundant intermediary premiums and high virtualization taxes, Aethir has reduced overall computing costs by 60% to 80%. Aethir's decentralized infrastructure spans 95 countries and regions globally, with 435,000 GPU containers providing low-latency computing access across more than 200 physical nodes, serving over 150 enterprise clients.

Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino revealed that the Tether AI team has released a new version of QVAC Fabric, which integrates the cross-platform BitNet LoRA framework, enabling the training and inference of billion-parameter large models on consumer-grade GPUs and smartphones.The new version of QVAC Fabric LLM has achieved cross-platform operation of BitNet LoRA fine-tuning and inference on AMD, Intel, Apple Metal, and mobile GPUs for the first time. On flagship devices, GPU inference speed is improved by 2 to 11 times compared to CPU, and memory usage is reduced by up to 90% compared to full precision models. The Tether team has completed fine-tuning of models with up to 3.8 billion parameters on flagship smartphones such as Pixel 9, S25, and iPhone 16, and has achieved fine-tuning of models with up to 13 billion parameters on the iPhone 16. The related code has been open-sourced to GitHub.

According to market news, Nasdaq-listed company Rumble disclosed in its latest annual financial report that it currently holds 210.82 bitcoins, as well as cash and cash equivalents worth $237.9 million, bringing total liquidity to approximately $256.4 million.In addition, Rumble also revealed that the previous $100 million advertising investment from stablecoin issuer Tether will be paid over two years, with $50 million each year, and the first payment will be made in the first quarter of this year. Furthermore, Tether will provide Rumble with a commitment to procure up to $150 million in GPU services over two years and strengthen strategic cooperation to expand AI infrastructure and high-performance computing capabilities.

The Nasdaq-listed company Rumble disclosed in its latest annual financial report that it currently holds 210.82 bitcoins, as well as cash and cash equivalents worth $237.9 million, bringing total liquidity to approximately $256.4 million. In addition, Rumble revealed that the $100 million advertising investment from the stablecoin issuer Tether will be paid over two years, with $50 million each year, with the first payment scheduled for this quarter. Furthermore, Tether will provide Rumble with a commitment to procure GPU services of up to $150 million over two years and strengthen strategic cooperation to expand AI infrastructure and high-performance computing capabilities.