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ChainCatcher news, Peter Thiel's venture capital firm Founders Fund is investing approximately $624 million in Anduril's latest financing round, becoming one of the largest investors in this round. Reportedly, the scale of Anduril's current financing round is about $4 billion, with an expected valuation reaching $60 billion, led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) and Thrive Capital. Anduril is a US-based AI military startup. The company's founder, Palmer Luckey, once launched the digital bank Erebor together with Peter Thiel, specifically designed for cryptocurrency and tech startups.

Glonghui May 1st｜The Nikkei 225 Index rose on Friday, mainly driven by a few tech stocks including Tokyo Electron. However, gains were limited as the yen's rebound weighed on export stocks. On Friday, Tokyo Electron announced that its net profit for the half-year ending in September is expected to grow by 36%, and its share price subsequently surged 7.9%, becoming the biggest driving force behind the Nikkei's rise. The Nikkei Index jumped 16% in April, marking its largest single-month increase since last October; the TOPIX Index climbed 6.6% over the same month. Masahiro Ishikawa, chief market strategist at Sumitomo Mitsui DS Asset Management, said: "In the short term, due to the uncertainty brought by the Middle East war, investors tend to sell stocks such as automakers. However, in the long term, investors are more willing to bet on the growth of artificial intelligence-related companies."

According to ChainCatcher, on-chain analyst Ai Yi has monitored that a suspected address belonging to Justin Sun has once again withdrawn 3.2 million USDT from Spark, with a cumulative total of 96.62 million USD stablecoins withdrawn. The financial management address 0x939…6A1D1 currently still holds 1.15 billion USD funds on Spark, including 1.02 billion USDS and 131 million USDC. Previously, after an alleged sale of 5.51 million USD in USDS Farming rewards, the new rewards have now accumulated to nearly 600 thousand USD.