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🟨 SpaceX IPO timeline accelerates SpaceX is reportedly moving up its IPO schedule, with a June 12 Nasdaq debut now targeted after an earlier late June window. The company is reportedly seeking to raise $75B at an implied valuation near $1.75T, with prospectus materials expected in late May and a June 8 roadshow ahead of pricing around June 11. One of the world’s most valuable private companies may now be weeks away from public trading.

🟨 OpenAI closes $122B round at a $852B valuation and opens the door to individual investors The round is the largest private funding event in tech history, repricing OpenAI from a previous $730B valuation just weeks ago to a 17% step-up in a single cycle. As part of the raise, the company sold $3B of shares directly to individual investors through major banks and is now extending access further through ETF inclusion ahead of a widely expected IPO. Private markets are becoming more liquid, narrowing the gap between pre-IPO access and public entry.

🟨 800+ unicorns are now sitting in the pre-IPO backlog There are now more $1B+ companies staying private longer than at any point in the last decade, with the median time to IPO stretching past 10 years. Late-stage secondaries are taking a larger share of liquidity amid selective IPO windows. colb.finance

🟨 Pre-IPO spotlight: Pentagon fallout and trillion-dollar debuts From military AI contract fallout to SpaceX targeting a $1.75T listing, here's what's moving this week across private market leaders.

🟨 $USC exceeds $35M in transaction volume Bringing institutional-grade investments onchain requires an institutional-grade settlement layer. Colb’s $USC is backed 1:1 by USD held in a bankruptcy-remote trust, powering global B2B payment rails and serving as the settlement layer for tokenized assets on the Colb platform. More to come.

🟨 Second Independent Audit completed with Shieldify Colb has completed an independent frontend and web app security audit with Shieldify, reviewing the UI and application surfaces behind the Colb experience. This marks another step forward in our mission to bring real-world finance onchain through secure and transparent infrastructure. Learn more 👇

🟨 SpaceX confirming an employee share buyback at around an $800B valuation is setting the stage for its reported 2026 $1.5T IPO target. At this level, internal transactions would be priced at >2x recent 2025 private market sales. If realized, this could mark the largest IPO in history and act as a catalyst for a highly active 2026 IPO season.

🟨 Your Colb Wrapped 2025 is here: > Integrated with 5 chains > 19.9M B2B transaction volume on USC > CBAL managed strategy token > First tokenized pre-IPO live on Colb – CSPX > Community + followers 93,696 bees strong …and more 🐝

Wild first day since launch. KYC speed absolutely needs an upgrade, we’ll fix it. But the momentum speaks for itself: over $100k in subscriptions in the first 24 hours, even with an 8-hour slowdown as we fixed the wallet connection. The signal is undeniable: crypto holders don’t want just RWA, they want pre-IPOs 🟨

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🟨 The next phase of the Colb Web App is coming soon With it, we’re expanding what’s possible with private market exposure in a way that’s only possible onchain Starting with an asset that’s literally out of this world Link below 👇

Why is SpaceX a multi-hundred-billion private giant? — Founded in 2002 by Elon Musk, in the USA — Today SpaceX is valued at $400–500B (2025) and employs 13,000+ people. Yes, half-a-trillion for a private company — 2025 revenue: ~$13–15B. Most of it comes from Starlink, a broadband network powered by 6,000+ satellites and used by 2.5M+ subscribers, making up ~70% of total revenue — SpaceX builds the world’s most advanced rockets: Falcon 9, Falcon Heavy, Dragon, and now Starship, designed to make humanity multiplanetary This is the company that: — First privately launched, orbited, and docked a spacecraft with the ISS — Flew NASA astronauts on a private spacecraft — Perfected reusable rockets, cutting launch costs by up to 70% Result? — Launched more rockets than the entire rest of the world combined in both 2024 and in the first part of 2025 — SpaceX owns ~80% of the global commercial launch market — The master piece: Starship, a fully reusable mega-rocket engineered for Mars, deep-space logistics, and a new era of space infrastructure SpaceX isn’t just a company. It’s the backbone of the new space economy, and the closest thing we have to expand human consciousness beyond earth.

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Twenty-fifth day of November in the year two thousand and twenty-five Get ready for it 🚀🛰️🟨

🟨 Pre-IPO → IPO Spotlight > OpenAI is reportedly laying groundwork for a potential $1T IPO in late 2026–2027, though its CFO denies active plans. Rising costs and talk of gov-backed financing are drawing some scrutiny > Anthropic is raising $3–4B at a $60B valuation, keeping momentum in frontier-model scaling despite tighter capital > SpaceX has grown Starlink to 8M users in 150 countries, secured $19B+ in spectrum, and partnered with VEON to reach 150M+ mobile users AI & space are driving record valuations, setting up the most anticipated IPOs in modern history

With our new Flash Mint feature, we enabled the acquisition of $1.4M in $USC on Ethereum, instant, seamless, and fully onchain (literally), to complete a cross-border payment. Finance, updated 🟨

🟨 Colb is coming to Ethereum Real-world finance is going onchain. Building a more secure and inclusive financial system starts with open, decentralized infrastructure proven at global scale. Colb assets, from tokenized structured funds and pre-IPOs to managed strategies, will soon be accessible natively on Ethereum mainnet.

🟨2025 YTD performance of leading pre-IPOs vs top crypto assets Private-market leaders like Anthropic, OpenAI, and Anduril have substantially outpaced crypto majors this year, as institutional capital floods into AI and defense innovation. Highlighting how the next phase of onchain growth may be driven by real-world innovation.

Ahead of launch, we’re expanding. @ethereum and @plumenetwork are now part of the Colb ecosystem, more chains, more freedom. Official launch date coming soon.