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AlphaTON Strikes $43 Million AI Infrastructure Financing Deal With Vertical Data

The asset-backed deal gives AlphaTON a path to grow private AI compute without heavy upfront costs.

Overview

  • AlphaTON announced a roughly $43 million agreement with Vertical Data to finance and deploy NVIDIA B300 GPU clusters.
  • The transaction is expected to close in Q2 2026 subject to customary closing conditions and disclosed risks.
  • Financing will run through Vertical Data’s GPUfinancing.com as non-recourse, asset-backed funding that reduces balance-sheet strain.
  • Vertical Data will provide managed data-center services to keep the hardware efficient while AlphaTON builds privacy-first AI systems.
  • The buildout aims to deliver sovereign, confidential compute for TON ecosystem apps from partners like Telegram and Animoca Brands.