AI Tokens & Computing Infrastructure

Soluna Holdings acquired full ownership of Project Dorothy 1A for $16.5 million and completed a $53 million acquisition of the Briscoe wind farm, aiming to enhance its green data centers for AI computing and Bitcoin mining.

Quantitative AI trading platform AlphaNet secures $10 million in seed funding, preparing for a public launch with over 30 high-performing strategies. Plans include an Open Platform for strategy integration by 2026, aiming for 100+ strategies.

Worldcoin, Sam Altman's identity verification project, saw a significant success in Argentina, registering over 9,500 users in a day, while facing privacy concerns and regulatory scrutiny in other markets.

Quantitative trading giant Jane Street Group announced an investment of $1 billion in AI cloud service provider CoreWeave. Its planned total spending is set to reach $6 billion, and it will obtain rights to use NVIDIA Vera Rubin chips. This move is intended to accelerate the development of its AI software. CoreWeave is working to reduce reliance on a single customer and to pivot into an integrated AI infrastructure platform. This investment shows Jane Street strengthening its positioning in the AI space and improving its trading edge with efficient computing power.

Gate News update: On April 16, according to Gate market data, as of the time of publication, OORT (Oort) is trading at $0.01195. Over the past 24 hours, it is up 49.67%, with a high of $0.015 and a low of $0.00792. Its current market cap is about $8.8926 million. OORT is a decentralized AI infrastructure that protects data privacy and saves costs. By integrating global computing and storage resources, OORT can support trusted AI applications. OORT DataHub is a decentralized cloud platform where users can collect and preprocess data, including images, audio, or video, to improve AI and machine learning models. Users can earn OORT tokens by completing micro-tasks, verifying data, and inviting friends, among other ways.

Gate News message, according to Gate official announcements. Gate Yu Ebao is now live with AIA fixed-income wealth management products, offering three lock-up periods: 7 days, 14 days, and 30 days. The annualized return rate can be as high as 25%, and the minimum initial investment is 10 AIA. DeAgentAI is an AI agent infrastructure that covers the Sui, BSC, and BTC ecosystems, providing trustless autonomous decision-making capabilities for AI agents on-chain. Interest will be paid out in the form of AIA to participating users.

OpenGradient has launched its OPG airdrop registration, allowing users to connect wallets and verify eligibility from April 15 to April 20, 2026. Airdrop claims start on April 21, focusing on users engaged in on-chain verifiable AI.

Jane Street has invested around $6 billion in CoreWeave's AI cloud platform and an additional $1 billion in equity to enhance machine learning capabilities, gaining access to advanced computing infrastructure and support for its research in global financial markets.

Hannam University has launched a GPU data center project in Daejeon, South Korea, set to house over 62,500 GPUs at a cost of $1.9 billion. Supermicro is in charge of GPU procurement, and the facility aims to support up to 320,000 GPUs with advanced cooling systems.

Allbirds announced its transition into an AI compute power supplier, “NewBird AI,” with its stock price jumping 582% overnight. However, experts are skeptical that this is merely a reshuffled shell company, similar to what happened with past digital asset vaults. After the company sold off its footwear business, it has continued to incur losses and faces market risk. The market’s reaction to the “new narrative” is still playing out again.

0G Labs launched the 0G App, a no-code platform enabling users to create AI applications through natural language. It combines decentralized computing and AI capabilities, addressing centralization issues while enhancing privacy. This launch aims to boost AI Agent adoption and integrates with 0G's broader AI economy.

Kevin Warsh, nominated by Trump for Federal Reserve chair, is the wealthiest candidate in recent history, with a net worth up to $209 million. His diverse investments include Silicon Valley, fintech, and AI. Despite potential conflicts, he has a modern view on digital assets.

Elice Group, a South Korean AI firm, plans to IPO this year to fund next-gen portable modular data centers. With a revenue increase and a focus on cloud services over education, they aim to expand AI solutions and secure GPU procurement projects.

Gate News message. On April 15, according to Gate market data, as of the time of writing, COAI (ChainOpera) is trading at $0.42. In the past 24 hours, it is up 35.67%, with a highest of $0.58 and a low of $0.31. The 24-hour trading volume is $15.01 million. Its current market cap is approximately $82.91 million. ChainOpera AI is a blockchain-based full-stack AI platform committed to enabling collaborative intelligence through a network of AI agents and models that are jointly created and owned by the community. It integrates three core functions: AI applications for end users, a developer platform for creating agents, and a decentralized infrastructure layer for models and GPU resources—everything built on a unified protocol. The platform is

Bittensor's TAO token fell 6.9% to $238.91 amid a week-long decline linked to Covenant AI's exit due to centralized control concerns. Competing AI tokens had smaller declines. Despite the downturn, TAO remains the top AI token by market cap, with Grayscale increasing its allocation.

Nava, a blockchain startup, raised $8.3 million in seed funding to create a custody and verification framework that prevents unauthorized transactions by AI financial agents, enhancing asset security and transparency.

Gate News, according to Gate’s official announcement Gate’s initial listing of Sentio (ST) includes spot trading and instant exchange, and it has launched the 339th HODLer Airdrop campaign. Users holding 1GT or more can participate for free and share 750,000 ST tokens. This airdrop will end at 2026-04-15 17:00 (UTC+8). Spot trading will open at 18:00 on the same day, instant exchange trading will open at 19:00, and withdrawals are expected to open at 2026-04-16 18:00. Sentio is a decentralized, AI-agent-ready blockchain data network that provides unified Web3 observability and a data platform, integrating indexing, querying, visualization, and alerting features. The project has been adopted by 70,000 users and 24 billion in customer TVL. ST is a BEP-20 standard token with a total supply of 1,000,000,000. The contract address is 0x70be40667385500c5da7f108a022e21b606045dd. In this campaign, the participation cap for VIP 0–VIP 4 users is 2,000 GT. VIP 5–VIP 9 users receive different amount bonuses based on their tier, and VIP 10 and above users have no participation cap. All airdrop rewards are 100% immediately unlocked.

Const, co‑founder of Bittensor, has officially addressed the Samuel Dare (Covenant) betrayal that rocked the TAO community. In a lengthy X post, he apologized to every holder who lost money in the Covenant subnets (3, 39, and 81). He called Samuel a person he once considered a brother,

The latest survey shows that the AI industry is facing a computing power supply crisis, with Blackwell GPU rental prices up 48% within two months. Anthropic’s Claude API has a normal operating success rate below corporate standards, causing customers like Retool to switch to OpenAI. As demand for computing power surges, data centers are facing a power bottleneck, and the ongoing shortage situation will continue to affect the market.