AI Infrastructure: $638 Billion Order Book, 18-Month Low Prices - The Cycle Discount
The AI paradox: the companies building tomorrow's data centers see their stocks decline while their order books overflow.
Jul 2, 2026 at 16:36 9 9
Starwood Invests $10 Billion in Real Estate in the AI Era: PE and REITs Accelerate the Pivot
The largest independent real estate PE fund redirects $10B toward data centers and compute infrastructure. After the Digital Realty/Blackstone deal, all institutional capital is shifting.
Jul 2, 2026 at 10:19 9 11
Mei-Ling Chen
Visa, BlackRock and 138 Others: The Coalition Aiming to Dethrone Circle
A stablecoin network with 140 players has just been launched, Circle collapses on the stock market. The digital dollar infrastructure war has been declared.
Jul 2, 2026 at 10:17 8 9
Elena Fischer
Robinhood Launches a Public Blockchain: The Retail Broker Enters the Crypto Infrastructure Era
Robinhood no longer just wants to provide access to crypto—it wants to become its infrastructure. A proprietary public blockchain is a category shift.
Jul 1, 2026 at 22:49 7 8
Lars Eriksson
Together AI Raises $800M at $8.3B Valuation: The Race for GPU Neoclouds Enters a New Phase
When compute is scarce, whoever controls it sets the rules. Together AI has just proven this with an $800 million funding round.
Jul 1, 2026 at 22:49 8 8
Arjun Mehta
BlackRock Integrates USDe into Aladdin, Spiko Ties Its T-Bills to Coinbase Rails: The DeFi/TradFi Boundary Dissolves
In 48 hours, two signals confirm the same trend: tokenized data and instruments are entering the traditional institutional infrastructure.
Jul 1, 2026 at 09:38 9 9
Elena Fischer
Nasdaq Brings Its Market Data On-Chain via Pyth: Institutional Data Enters the DeFi Layer
For the first time, Nasdaq's proprietary data feeds are circulating natively on public blockchains—a further piece in the infrastructure of a hybrid TradFi/DeFi finance system.
Jun 30, 2026 at 23:26 5 9
Elena Fischer
ASML outperforms in tech sell-off: memory supercycle confirms resilience of upstream AI chain
While the Mag7 lose $2.3 trillion in June, ASML shows notable relative outperformance and Micron confirms the HBM memory supercycle. The contrarian angle of the tech sell-off: upstream infrastructure holds up better than platforms.
Jun 30, 2026 at 16:48 9 10
Arjun Mehta
Spiko links its EU-regulated T-bills to Coinbase's stablecoin rails: tokenization shifts to payment mode
A lock has just been broken: Spiko connects its regulated money market funds (European T-bills, AMF-approved) to Coinbase's stablecoin infrastructure - first T+0 on-chain settlement for a regulated European fund, the day after MiCA comes into force.
Jun 30, 2026 at 16:47 12 11
Elena Fischer
Digital Realty acquires Blackstone's data centers in Virginia for $3.5 billion: the major consolidation of AI real estate
The most significant transaction of the year in digital real estate: Digital Realty acquires three Blackstone data centers in Virginia for $3.5 billion, setting a benchmark at $1.17 billion per site in a market with frozen permits and GPUs at 85% utilization.
Jun 30, 2026 at 16:47 9 8
Arjun Mehta
Air Products cancels its clean energy project in Louisiana and takes a $2.9B charge: a warning signal for clean hydrogen
One of America's largest clean hydrogen projects is being scrapped. Air Products records up to $2.9 billion in pre-tax charges—a strong signal about the economic limits of high-cost energy transition.
Jun 30, 2026 at 16:47 6 8
Lucia Ferraz
Lawsuit Against Eagan (Minnesota) Data Center Moratorium: The Legal Front of the AI Battle Opens
A real estate developer is suing the city of Eagan (Minnesota) to lift its moratorium on AI data centers. A new legal front that complicates the deployment of hyperscalers, while a 900-acre project is announced in Iowa.
Jun 29, 2026 at 20:49 10 12