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Nvidia is making a one point five billion dollar bet on SoftBank's data center development arm, securing a deal that guarantees its chips will power an upcoming OpenAI facility. It's a move that cements the tight triangle between Nvidia, SoftBank, and OpenAI at the very top of the AI infrastructure build-out.
On the crypto side, Tom Lee's firm Bitmine has dropped another nineteen million dollars into Ethereum, putting it ninety-six percent of the way to holding five percent of the coin's total supply. That's a striking concentration of a single asset in private hands, and it raises real questions about what that kind of ownership stake means for a network built around decentralization.
Meanwhile, Compound, the protocol that helped invent decentralized finance lending, is pivoting hard toward institutional clients after a fifty-two million dollar capital raise and a leadership overhaul. Assets locked in the protocol have fallen sharply from their peak five years ago, and the team is betting that Wall Street's growing comfort with crypto can fill the gap left by retail traders who largely moved on.
Three very different stories, one common thread — big money is still moving fast in this space. Keep surfing. Tech Beat out.
