Tech and finance-focused SPAC Lafayette Digital Acquisition I prices $250 million IPO
January 9, 2026
Tech and finance-focused SPAC Lafayette Digital Acquisition I prices $250 million IPO
IPO Overview
Lafayette Digital Acquisition I, a blank check company targeting the financial services and technology industries, raised $250 million by offering 25 million units at $10.00. Each unit consists of one share of common stock and one quarter of one warrant, exercisable at $11.50.
Lafayette Digital Acquisition I is led by CEO and Director Samuel Jernigan IV, the CIO of Lafayette Macro Investors, and Senior Advisor to the Scroll Foundation, Puffer Foundation, and Liquid Collective. He is joined by CFO and Director Robert Munro, the co-founder, General Partner, COO, CFO, and CCO of Black Pill Capital. The SPAC intends to target businesses in the financial services and technology industries, including blockchain-enabled financial infrastructure and the broader digital-asset ecosystem, financial technology and payments, artificial-intelligence-enabled financial software, encryption and cybersecurity, and enabling compute and hardware.
Lafayette Digital Acquisition I plans to list on the Nasdaq under the symbol ZKPU. BTIG acted as sole bookrunner on the deal.
About the Company
We are a blank check company formed for the purpose of effecting a merger, amalgamation, share exchange, asset acquisition, share purchase, reorganization or similar business combination with one or more businesses, which we refer to throughout this prospectus as our initial business combination. While we may pursue an initial business combination with any business, in any industry or geographic location （subject to the limitations described in this prospectus）， we intend to focus our search within the financial services and technology industries. Areas of emphasis include blockchain-enabled financial infrastructure and the broader digital-asset ecosystem, financial technology and payments, artificial-intelligence-enabled financial software, encryption and cybersecurity, and enabling compute and hardware. We expect to evaluate public-network and enterprise use cases alike. Across opportunities, we prioritize lawful, standards-aligned operations while preserving the benefits of open, permissionless architectures. While we remain open to all opportunities, we expect to prioritize opportunities aligned with Ethereum and its broader ecosystem. We are not limited to these sectors and may evaluate opportunities outside them where we believe our capabilities can catalyze durable value creation.