Augustus raises $180M Series B at $1B valuation
The raise lands at unicorn status for a startup positioning itself as the cross-rail bridge between stablecoins and traditional payment networks like Swift, ACH and SEPA.
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The raise lands at unicorn status for a startup positioning itself as the cross-rail bridge between stablecoins and traditional payment networks like Swift, ACH and SEPA.
Tiger Global led the $1B-valuation round, but the bet is on plumbing, not issuance: a federally chartered book that ties Fedwire settlement to programmable stablecoin rails.
Bitcoin is now trading as a sidecar to the AI cycle: every capability leap for frontier models widens the appeal of chips and model builders over a token whose biggest holders already sell compute.