Transaction Details
Nasdaq-listed Flora Growth announced the successful closing of a $401 million treasury initiative to support Zero Gravity (0G), a blockchain network designed for distributed AI training. The transaction comprises a $35 million cash commitment and $366 million of in-kind 0G tokens, making it one of the largest single corporate allocations to an AI-focused blockchain protocol to date.
Solana treasury firm DeFi Development Corp. led the round alongside Hexstone Capital and Carlsberg SE Asia PTE Ltd. Strategic participation came from Dao5, Abstract Ventures and Dispersion Capital, underscoring broad institutional interest in 0G’s technical roadmap.
Rationale and Rebranding
Flora Growth CEO Daniel Reis-Faria explained that the treasury will accelerate integration between decentralized AI workloads and scalable blockchain primitives. As part of the initiative, the company will rebrand to ZeroStack while retaining its FLGC ticker, reflecting a strategic shift toward digital infrastructure.
Zero Gravity’s Technical Edge
Zero Gravity claims an architecture capable of training models with 107 billion parameters across distributed clusters, achieving up to 357× efficiency gains over existing frameworks by parallelizing computation across on-chain nodes. The protocol’s smart-contract layer coordinates data sharding, model aggregation and incentive distribution for compute contributors.
Governance and Tokenomics
Governance tokens will be distributed to treasury partners through vesting schedules tied to network performance metrics, including transaction throughput and model training throughput. Flora Growth will hold a portion of its treasury in Solana (SOL) tokens as a hedge and to support upcoming protocol upgrades on the Solana network.
Market Implications
Industry analysts project that the marriage of large-scale AI training and blockchain token incentives could unlock new revenue streams for decentralized infrastructure. Flora Growth’s commitment signals growing convergence between traditional capital markets and novel Web3 investment vehicles.
Next Steps
Closing of the transaction is expected by September 26, pending shareholder approval. Flora Growth plans a series of community calls and developer hackathons in Q4 to onboard AI researchers and blockchain developers to the Zero Gravity ecosystem.
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