AlphaTON Capital Corp Announces Closing of $15 Million Registered Direct Offering of Ordinary Shares
Rhea-AI Summary
AlphaTON Capital Corp (NASDAQ: ATON) closed a registered direct offering on Jan 15, 2026, selling 15,000,000 ordinary shares (or pre-funded warrants) at $1.00 per share for aggregate gross proceeds of $15 million before placement agent fees and offering expenses. H.C. Wainwright & Co. served as exclusive placement agent. The company intends to use net proceeds to scale GPU deployments for Cocoon AI, for working capital and general corporate purposes. The securities were offered under a shelf registration statement (File No. 333-291921) declared effective Dec 11, 2025.
Positive
- $15.0M gross proceeds raised
- Proceeds earmarked to scale GPU deployments for Cocoon AI
- Exclusive placement agent H.C. Wainwright & Co. secured
Negative
- Issuance of 15,000,000 shares (or pre-funded warrants) may cause shareholder dilution
- Gross proceeds are before placement agent fees and offering expenses, reducing net proceeds
News Market Reaction
On the day this news was published, DPZ declined 2.15%, reflecting a moderate negative market reaction.
Data tracked by StockTitan Argus on the day of publication.
Key Figures
Market Reality Check
Peers on Argus
ATON fell 29.47% while sector peers showed mixed moves (e.g., BCG +8.86%, CUBA -1.18%). No broad asset management sector pattern explains ATON’s decline.
Historical Context
| Date | Event | Sentiment | Move | Catalyst |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 13 | Registered direct offering | Positive | +42.9% | Announced $15M offering to fund Cocoon AI GPU deployment. |
| Jan 12 | AI infra expansion | Positive | +1.0% | $46M AI compute build-out with detailed return projections. |
| Dec 17 | Program clarification | Negative | -14.0% | Cancelled tokenized Anduril program due to transfer restrictions. |
| Dec 17 | Biotech AI platform | Positive | -14.0% | Announced decentralized AI-native biotech platform for rare cancers. |
| Dec 16 | Strategic investment | Positive | -3.6% | Investment in Alpha Liquid Terminal for Telegram-focused financial stack. |
News tends to move the stock sharply, with both strong rallies on financings/AI expansion and notable selloffs on strategic shifts or complex initiatives.
Over the last months, AlphaTON announced multiple strategic shifts and financing steps. On Dec 16–17, 2025, it detailed investments in Alpha Liquid Terminal and a tokenized Anduril program, later clarified and partly canceled, with negative price reactions. In Jan 2026, it unveiled a large $46M AI infrastructure expansion and a $15M registered direct offering to fund GPU deployments, with the prior offering headline seeing a 42.86% gain. Today’s closing of that offering fits into this rapid capital-raising and AI build-out narrative.
Regulatory & Risk Context
An effective Form F-3 shelf dated Nov 6, 2025 registers the resale of up to 189,719 ordinary shares by a selling shareholder. The company is not selling these shares and will not receive proceeds, but the registration enables secondary sales into the market.
Market Pulse Summary
This announcement confirms closing of a previously disclosed $15M registered direct offering of ordinary shares. It follows recent SEC filings describing an effective Form F-3 shelf supporting secondary sales and an at-the-market program. Together with earlier news on AI infrastructure expansion and Telegram ecosystem investments, the financing underscores AlphaTON’s capital-intensive strategy. Investors may monitor future use of the shelf, additional offerings, and execution on AI and digital-asset initiatives.
AI-generated analysis. Not financial advice.
New York, NY, Jan. 15, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- AlphaTON Capital Corp (NASDAQ: ATON) (“AlphaTON” or the “Company”), the world’s leading public technology company scaling the Telegram super app, with an addressable market of 1 billion monthly active users, today announced the closing of its previously announced registered direct for the purchase of an aggregate of 15,000,000 of its ordinary shares (or pre-funded warrants in lieu thereof), at a purchase price of
H.C. Wainwright & Co. acted as the exclusive placement agent for the offering.
The aggregate gross proceeds to the Company from the offering were
The securities described above were offered pursuant to a “shelf” registration statement (File No. 333-291921) filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) on December 3, 2025 and declared effective on December 11, 2025. The offering was made only by means of a prospectus, including a prospectus supplement, forming a part of the effective registration statement. The prospectus supplement and the accompanying prospectus relating to the securities being offered were filed with the SEC and are available at the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov. Electronic copies of the prospectus supplement and the accompanying prospectus relating to the securities being offered may also be obtained by contacting H.C. Wainwright & Co., LLC at 430 Park Avenue, 3rd Floor, New York, NY 10022, by telephone at (212) 856-5711 or e-mail at placements@hcwco.com.
This press release shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy any of the securities described herein, nor shall there be any sale of these securities in any state or jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to the registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such state or jurisdiction.
About AlphaTON Capital Corp. (Nasdaq: ATON)
AlphaTON Capital Corp (NASDAQ: ATON) is the world’s leading technology public company scaling the Telegram super app, with an addressable market of 1 billion monthly active users while managing a strategic reserve of digital assets. The Company implements a comprehensive M&A and treasury strategy that combines direct token acquisition, validator operations, and strategic ecosystem investments to generate sustainable returns for shareholders. Through its operations, AlphaTON provides public market investors with institutional-grade exposure to the TON ecosystem and Telegram’s billion-user platform while maintaining the governance standards and reporting transparency of a Nasdaq-listed company. Led by Chief Executive Officer Brittany Kaiser, Executive Chairman and Chief Investment Officer Enzo Villani, and Chief Business Development Officer Yury Mitin, the Company’s activities span network validation and staking operations, development of Telegram-based applications, and strategic investments in TON-based decentralized finance protocols, gaming platforms, and business applications.
AlphaTON Capital Corp is incorporated in the British Virgin Islands and trades on Nasdaq under the ticker symbol “ATON”. AlphaTON, through its legacy business, is also advancing first-in-class therapies targeting known checkpoint resistance pathways to achieve durable treatment responses and improve patients’ quality of life. AlphaTON actively engages in the drug development process and provides strategic counsel to guide the development of novel immunotherapy assets and asset combinations. To learn more, please visit https://alphatoncapital.com/.
Forward Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including statements regarding the intended use of net proceeds from the offering. These statements relate to future events or AlphaTON’s future financial performance and involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements. Factors that could cause or contribute to such differences include, but are not limited to, the development and adoption of artificial intelligence technologies, cryptocurrency market volatility, regulatory developments, technical challenges in infrastructure deployment, and general economic conditions. AlphaTON undertakes no obligation to update any forward-looking statements, except as required by law.
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