Catena Labs has completed a $30 million Series A funding round, led by a16z crypto and Acrew Capital

May 20th: Web3 user-generated content platform Tomoland announced it has closed a $2 million funding round. Sky9 Capital led the investment, with participation from WAGMI Ventures, Aureus Dealers, and angel investors hailing from Meta, Depinx Capital, Netease, and Virtuals. The new funds will be used to build a system that merges user-generated content with Web3 ownership, further advancing the integration of the gaming ecosystem and the broader Web3 economy.

On May 20th, AI startup Viktor announced the close of a $75 million Series A funding round. The round was led by London-based venture capital firm Accel, with participation from Bek Ventures, Kaya VC, Inovo VC, and Tenacity Capital. Angel investors joining the round include Slack co-founders Stewart Butterfield and Cal Henderson, as well as Synthesia’s CEO. Viktor is an AI virtual assistant embedded in Slack and Microsoft Teams, designed to integrate with a range of enterprise tools such as Google Drive, Meta Ads, Notion, and Shopify. It boasts persistent memory, enabling teams to leverage it for tasks like pulling reports, building internal applications, and streamlining their workflows.

**News Brief: ICE, CME Unveil Hash Rate Futures Tied to AI GPU Computing Costs** May 20 – The Intercontinental Exchange Group (ICE), parent company of the New York Stock Exchange, plans to launch a hash rate futures market to address pricing demands driven by artificial intelligence (AI) technology growth. ICE is partnering with financial infrastructure provider Ornn to develop new futures contracts based on Ornn’s index products, which will accurately track real-time Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) computing costs. These contracts are currently awaiting regulatory approval. Earlier, on May 12th, the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) and Silicon Data – a leading player in GPU market intelligence and benchmark data – announced their own plans to roll out a hash rate futures market later this year. That initiative is also pending regulatory review. Wall Street is now classifying AI infrastructure as an emerging tradable asset, with these new markets poised to deliver critical p

May 20 – According to Onchain Lens monitoring, BlackRock has recently deposited 4,986 BTC into Coinbase, valued at approximately $386.2 million, plus 28,081 ETH worth roughly $59.8 million.

As of May 20th, HTX market data shows HYPE surged past $50, climbing 5.1% over the past 24 hours and notching a 96.6% year-to-date gain. Market attention is squarely on its HIP-3 Pre-IPO perpetual contract ecosystem. Hyperliquid has rolled out pre-IPO perpetual contracts tied to top AI firms like SpaceX, Anthropic, and OpenAI. Of these, the Cerebras perpetual contract offered by Trade.xyz has just a ~3% discrepancy relative to its Nasdaq debut opening price, versus a massive 35% deviation seen in traditional secondary markets. Right now, the SpaceX Pre-IPO contract (ticker: SPCX) is live on Hyperliquid, with a reference valuation of roughly $1.78 trillion. Market forecasts project SpaceX’s IPO could raise between $750 billion and $800 billion, while Anthropic and OpenAI are also eyeing $1 trillion valuations. The HIP-3 model marks the first time retail investors can participate in price discovery for major tech firms’ IPOs via on-chain markets, though it could also draw scrutiny fro

SpaceX’s latest IPO prospectus is expected to be filed as early as Wednesday evening Eastern Time, with key highlights from its Starship rocket launch featured prominently—including a photo of the 400-foot-tall booster blasting off, enveloped in bright orange flames and a massive smoke plume, designed to showcase the craft’s breakthrough technology. The prospectus frames Starship as the core engine driving SpaceX’s future growth, positioning it as a key asset investors will use to gauge the company’s long-term value. The document’s release further solidifies Starship’s central narrative for SpaceX, cementing its role as a foundational element of the firm’s deep space transportation and commercial spaceflight goals. Data from pre-IPO trading platform trade.xyz shows SpaceX (ticker: SPCX) is currently trading at $203.13 per share, putting its valuation at $2.42 trillion.