Intellistake Technologies Corp., a developer of decentralised AI and blockchain infrastructure, congratulated Orbit AI on the successful launch of its first Orbital Cloud satellite and confirmed it has now completed its previously announced $500,000 strategic equity investment in the Singapore-based aerospace company.
This inaugural satellite marks Orbit AI's first step toward building its Orbital Cloud network -- an architecture where AI compute, connectivity and blockchain-verified processing occur directly in low-Earth orbit. Intellistake is now working with Orbit AI with the goal of having its first blockchain-verification payload included on Orbit AI's next launch, planned for Q1 2026, subject to final engineering and regulatory requirements.
Completion of the $500,000 investment provides Intellistake with a 1 per cent equity position in Orbit AI under the Collaboration Framework Agreement signed in November 2025. Intellistake also retains an option to invest an additional $1 million at a valuation tied to Orbit AI's next financing round, with the potential to increase that option to up to $10 million with Orbit AI's approval.
As global AI demand intensifies, ground-based infrastructure is increasingly limited by power availability, cooling requirements and land constraints. Over 500 orbital launches in the last two years alone highlight how quickly space-based alternatives are becoming feasible. This trend was echoed publicly on December 7 when Elon Musk stated that satellites equipped with localised AI compute could become "the lowest-cost way to generate AI bitstreams" due to tightening terrestrial energy supply.
Orbit AI's system combines in-orbit AI compute (DeStarAI), decentralised communications (DeStarlink) and blockchain-verified nodes. Intellistake's role focuses on the trust layer of this environment -- validator and node infrastructure intended to authenticate data, verify workloads and coordinate decentralised processes between satellites.
"The successful launch of our first Orbital Cloud satellite moves this architecture from concept toward active capability," said Gus Liu, Co-Founder of Orbit AI. "With Intellistake completing its investment and preparing verification systems for our next mission, we are strengthening the trust layer needed to scale this network."
