Kalshi completes new round of financing exceeding $10 billion at $220 billion valuation

2026-03-20 by admin

BlockBeats news, March 20th, according to a Bloomberg report citing informed sources, prediction market platform Kalshi raised over $1 billion in a new round of financing, with the company’s valuation reaching $22 billion. This transaction roughly doubled Kalshi’s valuation from its previous round in December last year, which was $11 billion.

PANews reported on March 20th that, according to The Block, US digital asset bank Anchorage Digital announced the launch of a collateral management service on its institutional platform, Atlas, offering institutional lenders and credit providers 24/7 real-time collateral monitoring, automatic margin calls, and other services. The service holds collateral assets in Anchorage's regulated, segregated, and bankruptcy-separated escrow service. Anchorage stated that the service aims to support the transformation of the institutional credit market, helping lenders manage risk and scale.

BlockBeats News, March 20th, according to The Block, Anchorage Digital stated that its Atlas platform for institutional clients is expanding into collateral management and oversight services, targeting institutional lenders and credit providers.The service will offer features such as 24/7 real-time collateral monitoring and automated margin calls, applicable to a wide range of digital asset collateralized transactions, including: secured loans, convertible bonds, warehouse financing, structured products, over-the-counter derivatives, equipment procurement, PIPE financing, and various other scenarios.

BlockBeats News, March 19th, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has officially approved Nasdaq's rule amendment, allowing a pilot program for trading securities in a "tokenized form" on its exchange, marking a key step for traditional capital markets toward blockchain.According to the plan, eligible stocks and ETFs can be cleared and settled in the form of on-chain tokens within the existing trading system, sharing the same order book, identical trading priority, and fully consistent shareholder rights with traditional stocks.The pilot is advancing based on the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation's (DTC) tokenization initiative, allowing investors to choose whether to settle in token form when placing orders, with the system completing on-chain processing post-trade.Nasdaq stated that, aside from the settlement method, trading rules, market data, fee structures, and regulatory monitoring remain unchanged, with tokenized securities still fully integrated into the current securities law framework.The industry views this move as signifying that "tokenization of U.S. stocks" has officially entered the regulatory implementation phase, potentially reshaping the securities issuance, trading, and settlement systems.

BlockBeats News, March 19, Visa's Crypto Labs has released a command-line tool (CLI) that allows AI agents to initiate automated payments directly in the terminal, enabling "no human intervention" programmatic trading.This tool supports providing payment capabilities for automated processes such as bots and scripts, without the need to manage API keys, and can be directly used for purchasing cloud resources, calling API services, and executing machine-to-machine payments. The product is currently in the testing phase and requires a GitHub account to apply for use.Visa stated that as AI moves from "answering questions" to "executing tasks," including automatic procurement of computing power, service calls, and micro-payments, payment infrastructure also needs to be upgraded to support "command-line commerce."In addition, Visa has integrated the Machine Payment Protocol (MPP) and synergized with AI payment standards promoted by industry players such as Coinbase and Cloudflare, accelerating the development of the AI-native payment ecosystem.