This Week Overview (June 30 – July 3, 2026): Joulent secured $1.75 billion from National Grid Ventures, which takes a 35% stake, to build a 2.67-gigawatt gas power plant in West Texas ("Project Kilby"). Together AI closed an $800 million Series C led by Aramco Ventures at an $8.3 billion valuation. Venice AI raised its first-ever outside round: $65 million at a $1 billion valuation. Five federal regulators proposed KYC rules for stablecoin issuers under the GENIUS Act.

This week overview (May 11 - May 15, 2026): BitGo reported $3.8 billion in Q1 revenue, up more than 112% year-over-year. JPMorgan launched JLTXX, a new Ethereum-based tokenized money market fund built around stablecoin reserve requirements under the GENIUS Act. Exodus posted Q1 revenue of $22.7 million, down 37% year-over-year. OKX is reportedly acquiring a 20% stake in South Korean exchange Coinone.

This week overview (May 4 - May 8, 2026): - Bullish has agreed to acquire Equiniti from Siris in a $4.2 billion transaction. - A16z’s new $2.2 billion crypto fund reflects growing conviction. - Bitwise is entering the tokenized fund market through the acquisition of Superstate’s onchain arbitrage fund. - Moonshot AI’s $2 billion raise at a $20 billion valuation shows accelerating investor demand for lower-cost, open-weight AI models.

This week overview: Franklin Templeton is expanding its crypto footprint with the acquisition of 250 Digital, Venture capital hit an all-time high in Q1 2026, with $300 billion deployed, 80% of it into AI frontier labs, Google warned that quantum computers could break existing encryption by 2029.

Institutional capital is concentrating around infrastructure that directly runs financial systems and enterprise workflows.

In a recent conversation with Y Combinator, Max Hodak, co-founder of Neuralink and founder of Science, argues that brain–computer interfaces are crossing from research into real-world impact, driven by compounding advances in hardware, AI, and biology.

Key Deals of March 9 - March 13, 2026

Treating a round as success instead of a tool with a cost.

Key Deals of March 2 - March 6, 2026

Key deals of February 23 - February 27, 2026 Better x Framework: Stablecoins Enter the Mortgage Engine Better is plugging mortgage origination into DeFi liquidity. The lender secured up to $500M in financing from Framework Ventures through the Sky stablecoin ecosystem , a structure rooted in MakerDAO , positioning itself as a designated capital recipient within the system. Better will continue underwriting and originating conforming home loans, while capital generated insi