{"id":95768,"date":"2026-09-11T06:07:23","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T10:07:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/09\/2026\/nasdaq-ventures-agreed-a-100-million-investment-in-payward-at-21-billion.html"},"modified":"2026-09-11T06:07:23","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T10:07:23","slug":"nasdaq-ventures-agreed-a-100-million-investment-in-payward-at-21-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/09\/2026\/nasdaq-ventures-agreed-a-100-million-investment-in-payward-at-21-billion.html","title":{"rendered":"Nasdaq Ventures Agreed a $100 Million Investment in Payward at $21 Billion:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/2026-09-11-payward-hero.jpg\" alt=\"Nasdaq Ventures Agreed a $100 Million Investment in Payward at $21 Billion:\" \/><\/p>\n<p>HedgeCo.Net \u2014 Nasdaq Ventures agreed on September 10 to invest $100 million in Payward, the parent of Kraken, at a $21 billion valuation, according to Bloomberg and CNBC, with Payward\u2019s own press release confirming the $100 million agreement. The partnership advances Nasdaq\u2019s Equity Tokens (NETs) framework and includes a new market-surveillance agreement, expanding a March 2026 collaboration, with tokenized equities expected to launch in the second quarter of 2027. Bloomberg, CNBC, and Payward independently printed the same $100 million check size; Bloomberg and CNBC both carried the $21 billion valuation.<\/p>\n<p>The print is framed as a strategic investment agreement tied to tokenized-equity infrastructure rather than a completed IPO. Coverage does not state that an IPO closed.<\/p>\n<p>This is an agreed strategic investment and product roadmap, not a public listing close. Mark the $100 million Nasdaq Ventures check, $21 billion valuation from Bloomberg\/CNBC, NETs \/ surveillance expansion, and Q2 2027 tokenized-equities launch target as announced. Do not invent that an IPO priced or closed, a fully diluted share count, or secondary liquidity terms. The allocator object is exchange\u2013crypto infrastructure equity at a late-stage private mark.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HedgeCo.Net \u2014 Nasdaq Ventures agreed on September 10 to invest $100 million in Payward, the parent of Kraken, at a $21 billion valuation, according to Bloomberg and CNBC, with Payw\u2026 <a class=\"continue_reading_link btn btn-mini\" href=\"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/09\/2026\/nasdaq-ventures-agreed-a-100-million-investment-in-payward-at-21-billion.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":95767,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16282],"tags":[19432,19434,19430,19431,19433],"class_list":["post-95768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crypto","tag-kraken","tag-nasdaq-equity-tokens","tag-nasdaq-ventures","tag-payward","tag-tokenized-equities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95768\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}