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Lista DAO, a BNB Chain-based DeFi protocol, is launching liquidity pools on OpenOcean, a multichain DEX aggregator. With this development, Lista DAO is broadening access to the decentralized liquidity across the BNB Chain network. As per Lista DAO’s official announcement, the move lets users leverage diverse Lista-driven trading pairs via the aggregation platform of OpenOcean. The move comes just before the rollout of the LISTA Compounding Rewards Season 1 that will go live on the 26th of July.

Lista DAO Widens Liquidity Access via OpenOcean Integration Integration with OpenOcean permits Lista DAO to deliver enhanced swap pricing as well as more effective execution of trades for market members. So, the provision of liquidity pools through OpenOcean is anticipated to fortify on-chain liquidity, along with making swaps of tokens easier for consumers. The move enables liquidity providers and traders to seamlessly access many crucial trading pairs via OpenOcean.

Among the compatible pools are $USDT/$lisUSD, $BNB/$slisBNB, $USDT/$USDC, and $U/$USDT. At the same time, more pairs are also going to be available in the near future. With the use of the aggregation technology of OpenOcean, consumers can likely leverage optimized routing to search for significantly competitive exchange rates among liquidity providers within the decentralized network.

The partnership denotes a key development for Lista DAO to expand the liquidity infrastructure’s accessibility. Enabling the availability of these pools via a broadly utilized DEX aggregator can advance trading activity while streamlining access. It targets consumers who prioritize performing swaps via one interface instead of interacting with more than one DEX separately. Additionally, the deeper liquidity’s availability is poised to minimize price slippage when large transfers take place.

LISTA Compounding Rewards Season 1 Starts on July 26 According to Lista DAO, parallel to the liquidity expansion, the platform is also readying to unveil Season 1 of the LISTA Compounding Rewards initiative on the 26th of July. The platform will specifically distribute rewards via “Interest Crates,” with 2 primary factors determining allocations, including the maturity and position of the respective position. Overall, the merger of the incentive project and the broadened liquidity access underscores the platform’s endeavors to bolster its DeFi network.

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Donald Trump-backed Official Trump (TRUMP) memecoin team has just moved nearly $17 million worth of its tokens. The latest on-chain transfer comes on the heels of the CLARITY Act deadline, spurring speculations. In addition, the scheduled TRUMP token unlock has led to other lawyer of reasoning behind the move.

Official Trump Team Moves Millions In TRUMP Memecoin Donald Trump’s team shifted 16.84 million TRUMP tokens worth approximately $16.91 million to three Fireblocks custody wallets today, according to Arkham Intelligence data.

“TRUMP TEAM SENT $16M TRUMP TO CUSTODY.” The blockchain analytics platform added, “The $TRUMP team just transferred $16.91M of TRUMP to 3 Fireblocks Custody addresses.”

The transfers were distributed in three wallets. First, approximately 3.555 million worth $5.5 million TRUMP tokens were transferred to an address on Fireblocks. Thereafter, the team moved 3.596 million TRUMP tokens to another address on Fireblocks. At last, 3.686 million TRUMP tokens were shifted to a third address on Fireblocks. The total of the transfers on execution was approximately $16.91 million.

TRUMP TEAM SENT $16M TRUMP TO CUSTODY

The $TRUMP team just transferred $16.91M of TRUMP to 3 Fireblocks Custody addresses.

These addresses have all received $TRUMP in the past, and all sent their past TRUMP to Bitgo. Are they distributing TRUMP unlocks? pic.twitter.com/Y6XU8dg7qS

— Arkham (@arkham) July 25, 2026

Moreover, Arkham said that these wallets had previously also received TRUMP tokens. The firm asked, “These addresses have all received $TRUMP in the past, and all sent their past TRUMP to Bitgo. Are they distributing TRUMP unlocks?”

The latest movement drew attention as a big part of the token is kept under the control of the insiders. The TRUMP team has the ability to sell up to 96 million tokens, or 9.6% of the entire token supply, at the current price tag of $150 million, per crypto tools data. This figure is significant as it is about 40% of the current total token supply of 237 million.

There are currently 80% of the total supply in the hands of the insiders, and almost 670 million tokens (67%) are already unlocked. At press time, the TRUMP token was at $1.57, marking an 83% decline from its year-over-year high and nearly 98% drop from $73.43 in January 2025. According to data, there have been approximately 1 million buyers who have lost a total of $3.81 billion.

The CLARITY Act Factor In Play The Trump coin activity on-chain comes amid digital asset legislation in Washington. Despite recognizing it wouldn’t get 60 votes required for passage, Senate Majority Leader John Thune is trying to get the CLARITY Act to the floor prior to the August recess.

As CoinGape reported previously, Thune said, “I would like to at least get Clarity started. We’ll see where the votes are.” The bill passed the House in July 2025 and passed the Senate Banking Committee the following month with a vote of 15-9 in May 2026. However, the bill still needs to gain about seven Democratic votes to pass and key issues of contention remain: ethics rules and consumer protection.

The ethics provisions crackdown on Donald Trump’s crypto businesses like the TRUMP meme coin. Hence, the recent onchain movement has sparked discussions on the Internet.

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BlackRock clients have reportedly sold $52.76 million worth of Ethereum, according to a social media post by @WhaleInsider. The sale appears to be linked to BlackRock’s iShares Ethereum Trust, a spot ETF facilitating ETH exposure for institutional clients. This move is not directly attributable to BlackRock’s proprietary activity but suggests a significant outflow from the ETF, which is a major institutional holder of Ethereum. Such outflows are often observed alongside broader ETF activity and can influence market dynamics, particularly given the large scale of the transaction.

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Key Takeaways The reported sale of $52.76 million in Ethereum by BlackRock clients suggests a substantial institutional outflow, potentially impacting market sentiment. Current market odds for Ethereum dropping to $1,300 in July remain low, indicating limited immediate market impact from this news. Observers note that BlackRock’s iShares Ethereum Trust has previously been a significant driver of spot demand for Ethereum. What to Watch Markets will be closely monitoring any further large-scale transactions linked to the iShares Ethereum Trust, as these could indicate broader trends in institutional sentiment toward Ethereum. Additionally, any future announcements regarding inflows or outflows from major Ethereum ETFs could influence market perceptions and pricing. The impact on Ethereum’s price trajectory will also depend on broader market conditions, including regulatory developments and macroeconomic indicators.

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Apartment real estate investment trusts (REITs) are set up for a better second half of 2026, and the July income calendar makes this a natural moment to look at the group. New multifamily supply is rolling off. Housing starts peaked at 1.522 million units in March and fell to 1.177 million by May, a sharp deceleration that historically translates into stronger pricing power for existing landlords 12 to 18 months out. Demographics reinforce the setup: Millennials aging into peak household formation and Gen Z entering the rental market are colliding with a construction sector whose Q1 2026 growth was just 1.0%, keeping structural undersupply intact.

Three names stand out for investors who want durable, cash distributions rather than speculation. Each is a different flavor of the same thesis.

Mid-America Apartment Communities (MAA) Mid-America Apartment Communities (NYSE:MAA | MAA Price Prediction) is the Sun Belt anchor of this list, with a $16.8 billion market cap and a dividend record that few residential REITs can match. Management just declared its 128th consecutive quarterly dividend, extending a payout streak that dates back to the company’s 1994 IPO with no cuts or suspensions. The 2026 quarterly rate stepped up to $1.53 per share from $1.515 in 2025, and the forward yield sits around 4.3%. The next payment comes on July 31 with an ex-dividend date is July 15.

The bull case is clear. MAA guided 2026 Core FFO to $8.35 to $8.71 per share, and CEO Brad Hill has been direct that Sun Belt supply is decelerating in a way that should reset lease pricing. Same-store occupancy held at 95.7% in Q4 2025, and an $932 million, 2,522-unit development pipeline gives the company organic growth optionality without needing to overpay in the acquisition market. Shares have quietly perked up, gaining 3.75% year to date to $142.67.

Risk to watch: Q4 2025 EPS came in at 48 cents, missing the 90-cent estimate, and a $53 million legal settlement charge plus roughly 25 cents per share of interest expense headwind in 2026 mean the recovery will be uneven quarter to quarter.

Equity Residential (EQR) Equity Residential (NYSE:EQR) is the coastal counterweight to MAA. At a $27 billion market cap, it is the largest name on this list, and its urban portfolio is doing exactly what the bull thesis predicted. San Francisco delivered 6.0% Q4 revenue growth and New York 4.2% growth at 97.6% occupancy. Resident turnover fell to 7.8% in Q1 2026, the lowest in company history, which is the sort of retention that quietly compounds cash flow.

The dividend was raised 1.4% to an annual rate of $2.81, with the last payment of 70 cents hitting shareholders on July 10. Yield sits at roughly 4.0%. Management has been aggressive on capital returns, repurchasing about 4.8 million shares in 2025 at an average price of $62.03, with another $200 million planned for the first half of 2026. S&P affirmed the A- credit rating with a positive outlook, and Goldman Sachs raised its price target to $71. Shares are up 14.68% year to date to $70.62.

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Risk to watch: EQR’s expansion markets (Denver, Atlanta, Dallas/Austin) are still showing negative revenue growth, and Q1 2026 EPS of $0.24 missed the $0.29 estimate after $36.6 million of insurance and litigation reserves. Income-focused investors interested in building broader dividend exposure alongside REITs may want to review the free Ten Dividend Kings research report as a companion read.

Camden Property Trust (CPT) Camden Property Trust (NYSE:CPT) is the smallest of the three at a $11.6 billion market cap, and it is the most direct bet on the Sun Belt supply cliff. The portfolio spans 172 properties and 58,759 apartment homes across 16 markets. Q1 2026 EPS of 40 cents beat the 25-cent estimate, and management raised the 2026 EPS midpoint to 66 cents with Core FFO guided to $6.60 to $6.90 per share.

Under new CEO Alex Jessett, Camden is deploying its $600 million share repurchase program aggressively, buying back 2.63 million shares in Q1 at an average $105.88, plus $171.3 million of post-quarter acquisitions in Alpharetta and Lake Nona. The last quarterly dividend of $1.06 paid out on July 17, for an annualized rate of $4.24 and a yield of about 3.6%. Shares have gained 8.39% year to date to $118.24.

Risk to watch: Same-property NOI declined 0.7% year over year, Austin revenue fell 2.7%, and a $53 million litigation settlement tied to revenue management software pushed net debt to EBITDA to 4.7x. Blended new lease rates were still negative at -1.4%, so the pricing recovery is not yet in the numbers.

What to Watch Next All three REITs pay in July, all three have raised distributions into 2026, and all three benefit from the same supply-demand equation. MAA offers the deepest dividend track record and highest yield, EQR offers the coastal recovery story with the strongest year-to-date price action, and CPT offers the highest-conviction Sun Belt turnaround if new leases inflect positive later in 2026. The catalyst to keep an eye on: Q2 2026 earnings reports, where blended lease rate trends will show whether the supply thesis is finally translating into pricing power.

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Super Micro Computer (SMCI -3.53%) shares surged nearly 20% on July 22 after the company pre-announced strong preliminary results. While its second-quarter revenue is expected to come in toward the low end of its $11 billion to $12.5 billion range, that is still about double the revenue it generated a year ago. More importantly, it projected that its gross margins would rise to a range of 15% to 17%, well above its 8.2% to 8.4% guidance.

Supermicro, which designs and assembles servers and rack solutions for data centers, has struggled with margins, so this is a piece of welcome news. However, this is generally a low-margin business, and the surprising jump in margins is likely largely due to supply shortages.

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There have been shortages of key AI infrastructure components for things like memory, central processing units (CPUs), and graphics processing units (GPUs), so hyperscalers and enterprises that want complete systems right away are more likely to pay up for a complete system from an integrator. A shift toward enterprise or sovereign clients, which have less buying power, can also positively impact margins.

That said, this dynamic could be temporary, and Supermicro is still, by and large, a low-margin middleman. It also has a history of controversy, and its offices in Taiwan were raided at the end of June, related to employees smuggling chips to China. So instead of owning Supermico shares, I think buying Nvidia (NVDA -1.01%) is the much safer and smarter bet.

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Nvidia is the better stock to own

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Supermicro and most other integrators build their servers around Nvidia GPUs, so the strong demand it is seeing and its ability to boost margins speak volumes to the current high-demand environment for Nvidia's chips and components. In fact, this can be a great leading indicator.

When looking at where most of the value resides, this is with Nvidia and its GPUs. Supermicro is largely passing along high GPU prices to its customers; that's why its revenue is so high and its gross margins are generally low. Nvidia, on the other hand, has gross margins around 75%. So, what is good news for Supermicro is ultimately even better news for Nvidia, and you are getting a much more attractive company in Nvidia with a lot less controversy.

As Supermicro's preliminary Q2 numbers show, there is no current let-up in demand for AI infrastructure. At the same time, earlier commentary and an increase in capex from leading foundry Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing also point to strong long-term demand. With the king of AI infrastructure trading at a forward P/E of only 16 times fiscal 2028 (ending January 2028) estimates, investors don't need to overthink this and can just buy the stock of the high-quality market leader.

Key Takeaways Suspicious withdrawals exceeding $9.7 million were detected from Triple-A’s hot wallets spanning several blockchain networks The breach affected Ethereum, Solana, TRON, and TON, with potential involvement of Polygon and Arbitrum The alleged attacker converted stolen assets into roughly 5,226.66 ETH and moved them to Ethereum Triple-A remains silent on whether the incident occurred and if user deposits are compromised The Singapore-based firm operates under payment licenses across the United States, European Union, and Singapore A suspected security breach targeting Triple-A, a Singapore-headquartered stablecoin payment infrastructure provider, has resulted in unauthorized withdrawals exceeding $9.7 million from the company’s hot wallets, according to blockchain security researchers monitoring on-chain activity.

⚠️ALERT: Triple-A wallets are under an apparent active exploit with over $9.7M drained.

Onchain analyst Specter has flagged suspicious outflows from Triple-A hot wallets across TRON, Ethereum, Polygon, and Arbitrum, with the stolen assets consolidated into 5,227 ETH.

Triple-A… pic.twitter.com/1RykKuPGwA

— Coin Bureau (@coinbureau) July 25, 2026

Blockchain investigator Specter initially identified the anomalous fund movements. Cybersecurity firm PeckShield subsequently confirmed the findings, with damage assessments climbing from an early estimate of $9.3 million to more than $9.7 million as additional transactions were discovered.

Assets Drained From Six Blockchain Networks The unauthorized withdrawals targeted wallets operating on Ethereum, Solana, TRON, and TON blockchains. Additional evidence suggests Polygon and Arbitrum may also have been compromised, potentially expanding the attack surface to six separate networks.

Following extraction, the stolen digital assets underwent conversion and cross-chain bridging operations before landing on Ethereum. The destination wallet contained approximately 5,226.66 ETH when security analysts flagged the activity.

Converting multiple tokens into ETH represents standard procedure following cross-chain breaches, as it simplifies the movement of disparate assets through a single, liquid cryptocurrency.

The variance between initial and updated loss figures likely stems from ongoing transfers or fluctuations in Ethereum’s market value during the incident window.

Triple-A’s Business Operations and Official Silence Triple-A delivers payment processing solutions enabling businesses to accept, exchange, and disburse funds through stablecoin rails and conventional banking channels. Its product suite encompasses point-of-sale integrations, enterprise payment systems, and international money transfers.

The firm maintains regulatory approval across multiple jurisdictions, including American, European, and Singaporean territories. It secured Major Payment Institution status from Singapore’s Monetary Authority and became part of Circle Payments Network during March 2026.

Triple-A has issued no official acknowledgment of the security incident. The company has not revealed how unauthorized access occurred, the timeline of suspicious activity, or whether client assets face exposure.

Fireblocks serves as Triple-A’s digital asset custody provider. Currently available information contains no indication that Fireblocks infrastructure suffered any compromise.

Attacker Identity Unknown, Customer Impact Unclear Security analysts have not publicly attributed the attack to any specific threat actor. No confirmed reports indicate whether the consolidated funds subsequently moved through cryptocurrency exchanges or privacy-enhancing mixing services.

Absent official disclosure or forensic analysis, this incident remains classified as a suspected hot wallet security failure rather than a verified smart contract vulnerability.

Triple-A has not announced whether it has paused deposit acceptance, withdrawal processing, or cross-blockchain transfer capabilities in response to the suspected breach.

This event occurs separately from a July 17 attack wherein an adversary generated fraudulent Solana deposit records targeting Across Protocol. That unrelated incident caused losses below $4 million after Across suspended Solana integration. No connection exists between the two security breaches.

Stakeholders await Triple-A’s official response addressing the verified loss amount, the attack vector employed, and whether the company intends to reimburse impacted users.

Palantir Technologies (PLTR -0.30%) has been a cornerstone of the artificial intelligence (AI) trade for several years. Its stock price, despite dropping 30% year to date, has increased 1,800% since January 2023.

In a recent interview, Gil Luria, head of technology research at D.A. Davidson, told Schwab Network, "Palantir may be the best company in the world. It's at least the best software company." He also explained that, while the stock remains expensive, the valuation is more attractive today than it has been in the past.

Earlier this month, Luria raised his target price to $175 per share. That implies 42% upside from the current share price of $123. However, most Wall Street analysts expect even larger gains. Palantir has a median target price of $200 per share, implying 62% upside. 

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Palantir's unique software architecture gives the company an edge Palantir develops analytics platforms that integrate data and apply artificial intelligence to help customers make better decisions. The company has differentiated itself with a unique software architecture. While most analytics tools focus on charts and tables, Palantir built its platforms around a decision-making framework called an ontology.

Think of the ontology as a digital twin. It connects data to real-world assets and processes, creating a single source of truth for an entire organization. By structuring information in a manner conducive to artificial intelligence, Palantir's ontology makes it easy for customers to surface insights and automate workflows.

Additionally, Palantir's Artificial Intelligence Platform (AIP) is an agnostic large language model orchestration tool, meaning customers can apply any AI model to the ontology data. That distinguishes Palantir from companies like Anthropic and OpenAI, whose products center on proprietary models rather than agnostic orchestration.

Luria says the market needs agnostic products, citing a recent U.S. government directive that forced Anthropic to temporarily suspend access to its Fable model. "So now companies know we need somebody like Palantir, where if something like that happens, they can swap in an OpenAI model or even an open-source model," he told Schwab Network.

Luria went on to say Palantir has always been a major player in the AI platforms market, but its role in that market is becoming even more important as the number of available models increases. "Most companies are in the very initial stages of trying everything to see what catches. But Palantir customers are using AI already to deliver results," he said.

Palantir has received praise from several independent research firms. Dresner Advisory Services has ranked the company as a leader in three market studies: artificial intelligence, data science, and machine learning; model operations; and agentic AI. Likewise, Forrester Research has recognized Palantir as a leader in AI decisioning platforms.

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Palantir's impressive growth trajectory makes its rich valuation tolerable Palantir reported impressive financial results in the first quarter. Revenue increased 85% to $1.6 billion, the 11th consecutive acceleration, and non-GAAP (generally accepted accounting principles) earnings increased 153% to $0.33 per diluted share. The company also raised full-year guidance, now anticipating 71% revenue growth in 2026, up from 56% in 2025.

"Our financial results now demonstrate a level of strength that dwarfs the performance of essentially every software company in history at this scale," CEO Alex Karp told analysts on the earning call. "We are in a category of our own."

Looking ahead, Wall Street expects Palantir's earnings to grow at 56% annually through 2027. In that context, Palantir's current valuation of 128 times earnings is not cheap, but it is tolerable, especially given that the company has topped the consensus earnings estimate by an average of 15% over the last six quarters.

Luria's assertion that Palantir might be the best company in the world is rather bold. I'm not sure I'd go that far. Regardless, patient investors should consider buying a small position in the stock today.

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NAVER, NVIDIA and Brookfield plan to invest in gigawatt-scale, multi-tenant AI cloud infrastructure to power the next generation of AI companies in Korea and the U.S.NAVER and NVIDIA team plan to expand the initial NVIDIA DSX AI factory buildout at GAK Sejong data center from 55 megawatts to 200 megawatts by 2028.NAVER plans to continue its path toward gigawatt-scale sovereign AI infrastructure, deploying the NVIDIA DSX platform to deliver full-stack, lowest-cost AI factory infrastructure for enterprises, industries and government.
SAN FRANCISCO, July 24, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- AI Summit -- NAVER, NVIDIA and Brookfield today announced a proposed expansion of Korea's sovereign AI factory infrastructure, with planned investments that will grow the initial NVIDIA® DSX™ AI factory deployment to 200 megawatts — more than tripling the 55-megawatt buildout announced last month. NAVER intends to expand its deployment of NVIDIA AI infrastructure to 1 gigawatt.

Announced during Korea President Jae Myung Lee’s AI Summit visit to San Francisco, the planned 200-megawatt expansion marks a significant acceleration of Korea’s national AI ambitions. The expanded infrastructure will be built with the NVIDIA DSX platform at NAVER’s GAK Sejong hyperscale data center in Sejong, South Korea.

NVIDIA plans to invest $1 billion into NAVER Corp. Brookfield has entered into a nonbinding term sheet to fund up to $9 billion. NAVER will fund the remaining amounts to finance the project. NVIDIA’s planned investment is subject to customary closing conditions and NAVER finalizing at least $9 billion of committed financing for the project, separate from NVIDIA’s planned investment. The expanded infrastructure will provide Korea- and U.S.-based AI innovators with access to production-scale AI compute for building next-generation models, agents and AI-powered services.

“NVIDIA’s planned strategic investment and our infrastructure supply agreement with Brookfield have propelled NAVER’s vision for the AI factory business into a robust execution phase,” said Haejin Lee, founder and chairman of NAVER. “Leveraging the solid partnerships with our global partners, we will drive technological innovation, foster a sovereign AI ecosystem and spearhead efforts to strengthen South Korea’s AI competitiveness.”

“The partnership will combine Brookfield’s global AI infrastructure investment capabilities, NAVER’s full-stack AI and data center operating expertise, and NVIDIA’s accelerated computing platform to advance Korea’s AI capabilities,” said Sikander Rashid, global head of AI infrastructure at Brookfield. “As AI adoption accelerates across the global economy, access to trusted, sovereign and scalable AI infrastructure is becoming an increasingly important strategic priority for companies and countries.”

“AI factories are the infrastructure nations need to compete and innovate in the intelligence era,” said Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA. “Together, NAVER, NVIDIA and Brookfield are building sovereign AI infrastructure at the scale needed to fuel Korea’s startups and industries. This is how nations and companies are building their futures in the age of AI.”

Expanding AI Factory Capacity to Fuel AI Innovators
The 200-megawatt AI factory is expected to feature advanced NVIDIA AI infrastructure including the NVIDIA Vera Rubin and NVIDIA Blackwell platforms. It intends to provide the compute, software and support needed to develop and deploy competitive AI models and applications at scale. As an NVIDIA Cloud Partner, NAVER provides deep expertise in operating hyperscale infrastructure powered by the full-stack NVIDIA AI platform.

Today’s proposed expansion builds on the June announcement in which NAVER committed to extending its GAK Sejong data center with NVIDIA DSX, with a long-term path to gigawatt-scale sovereign AI infrastructure to serve Korea’s enterprises, industries, government organizations and global AI cloud customers.

Brookfield Investments Scale AI Infrastructure Deployments
Brookfield has established one of the industry’s leading AI infrastructure investment platforms, with approximately $100 billion of assets under management across the AI infrastructure value chain including data centers, compute, semiconductor manufacturing and dedicated power generation.

The planned NAVER investment will mark another significant milestone in Brookfield’s strategic partnership with NVIDIA. Building on NVIDIA’s participation as a founding partner in the Brookfield Global AI Infrastructure Program, the planned investment combines Brookfield’s capital and AI infrastructure and power expertise with NVIDIA’s accelerated computing platform to support the deployment of large-scale AI factories.

Brookfield has been an active, long-term investor in Korea since establishing a presence in the country in 2014 and currently manages approximately $12 billion of assets across infrastructure, real estate and energy.

NVIDIA DSX Platform Powers Expansion
The NVIDIA DSX platform provides an end-to-end, codesigned stack for AI factories — spanning chips, systems, software, facilities and partner technologies — purpose-built to minimize token cost and accelerate time to first production.

NVIDIA DSX MaxLPS™ software maximizes token throughput per megawatt, while NVIDIA DSX OS™ provides lifecycle management, health automation, resiliency and multi-tenant AI factory management across the expanded infrastructure.

Open Models Accelerate Growth
In addition, the expanded infrastructure builds on NAVER and NVIDIA’s collaboration on open model development for agentic and physical AI. NAVER is advancing its HyperCLOVA X models to be based on NVIDIA Nemotron™ 3 Ultra open models with its proprietary data and training expertise. NAVER is also the first Korean company to join the NVIDIA Nemotron Coalition, contributing to open model development across pretraining, post-training and reinforcement learning.

NAVER plans to launch an AI agent platform in Korea in the second half of the year, powered by NVIDIA Agent Toolkit software including NVIDIA NemoClaw™ blueprints. NAVER is also developing a Seoul World Model using proprietary urban street-view and spatial modeling data, built on NVIDIA Cosmos™ world foundation models.

About NAVER
Founded in 1999, NAVER is Korea’s largest Internet company and one of the world’s top tech companies. Leading cutting-edge technologies, NAVER operates the No.1 search engine in Korea and holds various business portfolios encompassing commerce, fintech, cloud, AI and robotics.

NAVER recorded sales of KRW 12.04 trillion (USD 8.18 billion) in 2025. TEAM NAVER continues to enhance its business portfolio and expand its global presence across Japan, North America, and Europe, while pursuing innovation through continuous research and development in future technologies.

About Brookfield
Brookfield is a leading global investment firm with more than $1 trillion in assets under management that owns and operates real assets and essential service businesses that form the backbone of the global economy. We invest on behalf of institutions and individuals around the world across infrastructure, renewable power and transition, private equity, real estate, and credit—sectors critical to supporting economic growth and productivity. With a heritage spanning more than a century and operations in over 30 countries, we deploy long-term, patient capital to build the foundational assets and businesses that power a more connected, resilient, and sustainable future—seeking to build long-term wealth for our clients while delivering strong risk-adjusted returns for our shareholders.

About NVIDIA
NVIDIA (NASDAQ: NVDA) is the world leader in AI and accelerated computing.

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NAVER PR
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Brookfield
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Catherine Woods
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NAVER Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements regarding the NAVER’s future plans, outlook, and initiatives, as of the date of this release. Actual results and outcomes may differ materially depending on future changes in market conditions and business circumstances.

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Certain statements in this press release including, but not limited to, statements as to: together, NAVER, Brookfield and NVIDIA building sovereign AI infrastructure at the scale needed to fuel Korea’s startups and industries; expectations with respect to NVIDIA’s partnership with NAVER and Brookfield; expectations with respect to demand, growth, performance, availability, and benefits of NVIDIA’s products, services and technologies, and related trends and drivers; expectations with respect to technology developments, and related trends and drivers; projected market growth and trends; expectations with respect to AI and related industries; and other statements that are not historical facts are forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, which are subject to the “safe harbor” created by those sections based on management’s beliefs and assumptions and on information currently available to management and are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause results to be materially different than expectations. Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially include: global economic and political conditions; NVIDIA’s reliance on third parties to manufacture, assemble, package and test NVIDIA’s products; the impact of technological development and competition; development of new products and technologies or enhancements to NVIDIA’s existing products and technologies; market acceptance of NVIDIA’s products or NVIDIA’s partners’ products; design, manufacturing or software defects; changes in consumer preferences or demands; changes in industry standards and interfaces; unexpected loss of performance of NVIDIA’s products or technologies when integrated into systems; NVIDIA’s ability to realize the potential benefits of business investments or acquisitions; and changes in applicable laws and regulations, as well as other factors detailed from time to time in the most recent reports NVIDIA files with the Securities and Exchange Commission, or SEC, including, but not limited to, its Annual Report on Form 10-K and Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q. Copies of reports filed with the SEC are posted on the company’s website and are available from NVIDIA without charge. These forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and speak only as of the date hereof, and, except as required by law, NVIDIA disclaims any obligation to update these forward-looking statements to reflect future events or circumstances.

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Integrated Dual-Clutch Transmission (DCT) system targets motorcycle and four-wheeled vehicle applications above 500 cc Technology improves fuel economy and enhances the riding experience BorgWarner upgrades from key component supplier to systems solution provider , /PRNewswire/ -- BorgWarner has secured a new DCT program with a Chinese motorcycle customer, with start of production planned for the third quarter of 2027. Under the program, BorgWarner will provide a systems solution that includes dual clutches, hydraulic control modules and clutch control software for two-wheeled motorcycles and four-wheeled vehicles with engine displacement above 500 cc.           

As the motorcycle industry accelerates its shift toward automatic transmissions, DCT technology is increasingly gaining attention in the market. Compared with automated manual transmission (AMT) and continuously variable transmission (CVT) technologies, DCT offers smoother shifting and higher transmission efficiency, making it particularly suitable for larger-displacement performance motorcycles.

"Passenger car transmission technology provides a strong reference point for the evolution of motorcycle automatic transmissions, and we believe automatic transmission technology will continue to gain momentum in the motorcycle market," said Henk Vanthournout, Vice President of BorgWarner Inc. and President and General Manager, Drivetrain and Morse Systems. "With our proven DCT expertise and systems integration capabilities, BorgWarner is well positioned to support our Chinese motorcycle customer in bringing its DCT solution to production and advancing automatic transmission technology for motorcycle applications."

As a global leader in DCT technology, BorgWarner has delivered nearly 10 million passenger car DCT units, backed by proven engineering expertise and mature manufacturing capabilities. Leveraging this foundation, BorgWarner is well positioned to develop and launch a dedicated motorcycle DCT system that helps enhance the riding experience and improve fuel economy.

This program reflects BorgWarner's evolution from a key component supplier to a system-level solution provider. Through an integrated offering that combines hardware and software, BorgWarner will support the customer's continued growth in China while helping enable its expansion into Europe, North America and other overseas markets.

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The US State Department has introduced a new initiative, the Freedom Tech Excellence Program (FTEP), aiming to promote digital freedom around the world with Bitcoin as a central component.

Public-private partnership to address digital challengesThe program brings together a coalition of partners, including the Bitcoin Policy Institute, data analytics firm Palantir Technologies, defense technology company Anduril Industries, and the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation. Together, these organizations will focus on combating online surveillance, strengthening encryption, ensuring responsible governance of emerging technologies, and defending free expression online.

According to FTEP’s official outline, its priority areas include protecting First Amendment rights in the digital era, fighting unlawful digital surveillance and online scams, advancing privacy tools such as robust encryption and VPNs, guiding the safe use of artificial intelligence, and improving safeguards for children and other vulnerable online users.

The inclusion of the Bitcoin Policy Institute, a nonprofit advocating for the use of Bitcoin and related technologies to achieve social freedom and resist censorship, reflects the department’s recognition of digital assets as potential tools against financial control in restrictive regimes.

Mini dictionary: Bitcoin Policy Institute, a research and advocacy organization dedicated to the exploration and promotion of Bitcoin as a tool for human rights, financial inclusion, and free expression in repressive environments.

Embedding expertise from the private sectorThe FTEP will deploy private sector professionals to the State Department for limited-term assignments. These embedded personnel will help guide US diplomatic efforts on various digital freedom issues, drawing on sector-specific expertise.

Palantir Technologies, one of the key partners, is known for its work in big data analytics for both government and private sectors, while Anduril Industries specializes in defense technology solutions. The Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation focuses on human rights advocacy, especially in nations experiencing authoritarian governance.

Bitcoin gains national strategic importanceSince taking office, President Trump has increasingly supported the digital asset sector, shaping regulatory approaches and bringing crypto-related elements into his administration. A significant milestone occurred in March 2025, when President Trump authorized an executive order establishing a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve and a separate Digital Asset Stockpile for the US government.

These reserves were launched with approximately 200,000 Bitcoin, assets previously acquired through criminal and civil seizures. The administration positioned Bitcoin as a strategic national resource, comparable to the country’s holdings in gold, petroleum, and pharmaceuticals.

President Trump’s order placed Bitcoin among the United States’ strategic reserves, signaling a shift in its treatment from a speculative asset to a core component of national resilience infrastructure.

Asset ClassStrategic Reserve PurposeBitcoinDigital resilience, financial sovereigntyGoldMonetary stability, economic securityPetroleumEnergy security, strategic emergenciesPharmaceuticalsMedical preparedness, public healthThe US government’s moves underline a growing recognition of digital assets’ role in future economic and security strategies, while signaling to the global community the administration’s intention to support digital freedom and advanced technology as pillars of US diplomacy.

Disclaimer: The information contained in this article does not constitute investment advice. Investors should be aware that cryptocurrencies carry high volatility and therefore risk, and should conduct their own research.

Wall Street giant Morgan Stanley Bitcoin exchange-traded fund now has close to $400 million in assets under management — despite only launching in April. 

The NYSE Arca-listed fund, which is the first by a bank, got off to a roaring start when it debuted, bringing in over $33 million in fresh cash on its first day. 

Now, the fund has over $391 million in assets, demonstrating the popularity of the product. Many ETFs never reach $400 million in assets at all, let alone in one quarter.

Senior Bloomberg Intelligence ETF analyst Eric Balchunas revealed Friday that the product has been one of the most successful funds launched this year so far. 

This week alone, investors have thrown $15.7 million in new cash at the product, according to Farside Investors data. 

Morgan Stanley has been making big crypto moves for years now. Back in 2021, it started offering wealthy clients exposure to Bitcoin via funds such as those by Galaxy Digital.

And last year, the bank’s CEO and Chairman, Ted Pick, said that the bank was working with regulators to see how they could offer crypto safely.

Back in April, the bank’s head of digital assets, Amy Oldenburg said client education — not product design — is the central challenge facing Bitcoin adoption.

ETF action this week After weeks of outflows and sloppy price action, American Bitcoin ETFs have taken in fresh cash over the past seven days. 

Farside Investors shows the products have received a total of $274 million in new investment so far this week. 

The funds had been on a winning streak, receiving nearly $1 billion over seven days until Thursday, when every ETF experienced outflows — except for Morgan Stanley’s product. 

Bitcoin’s price was recently trading for $64,096, down over 1% over the past 24 hours. The cryptocurrency is virtually unmoved over a seven-day period. 

European asset management firm CoinShares last week said that while investors are back at putting fresh cash in Bitcoin ETFs, other factors may hold digital asset markets from going higher. 

“We see no significant upside potential from here,” James Butterfill, head of research at CoinShares, wrote.

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Kansas-based wealth manager Leisure Capital Management has revealed a position in Franklin Templeton’s XRP ETF during the second quarter of the year.

According to a newly filed regulatory form with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Leisure Capital Management held 16,745 shares of the Franklin XRP Trust ETF (XRPZ). They were valued at roughly $206,000 as of June 30. 

The investment is not significant, but it shows that XRP is gaining more and more acceptance. 

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The Overland Park, Kansas-based wealth management firm manages investment portfolios for individuals and institutions and holds traditional equities, bonds and ETFs. 

Image via https://depositphotos.com/photos/kansas.htmlIts XRP ETF position appeared alongside holdings in major companies including Apple, Microsoft, Nvidia and Amazon.

More institutional interest Earlier in July, Realta Investment Advisors reported a position in the REX-Osprey XRP ETF with more than $260 million in reported holdings. 

Vista Finance also disclosed exposure to the Franklin XRP Trust ETF, holding 129,958 shares worth approximately $11.45 million.

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Brookstone Capital Management revealed a $71 million XRP ETF position. At the same time, CPR Investments disclosed a $363,000 position in the ProShares Ultra XRP ETF.

Institutional activity has also extended beyond ETFs. 

Galaxy Digital, Arrington Capital, The Private Shares Fund and GAM Alternatives Lux recently agreed to purchase approximately $130 million worth of Ripple Labs private shares from Linqto as part of the company’s bankruptcy proceedings.

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The growing number of 13F filings shows that asset managers are increasingly comfortable with XRP, which used to be considered a security by the SEC before being ultimately vindicated. 

ETF structures make it possible for institutions to access the asset through familiar investment channels.  

There’s roughly $1.6 trillion worth of Bitcoin sitting in wallets doing essentially nothing. Cardano’s development company, Input Output Group (IOG), thinks it has a solution: a platform called Pogun that “mirrors” Bitcoin onto the Cardano blockchain, giving holders access to lending, yield, and stablecoins while they keep custody of their own coins.

Charles Hoskinson, Cardano’s founder, publicly outlined the initiative on May 3, 2026. The core pitch is straightforward. Bitcoin holders get DeFi access. Cardano gets the liquidity. And nobody has to hand their keys to a centralized intermediary to make it work.

How mirroring actually works Instead of wrapping Bitcoin in a tokenized form, Pogun clones the representation of Bitcoin assets onto Cardano’s chain. The original Bitcoin stays put. The mirrored version on Cardano can interact with DeFi protocols.

The key technical ingredient arriving later in the roadmap is BitVM-powered mirroring, which aims to minimize the trust assumptions baked into most cross-chain bridges today.

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The platform is being built on top of interoperability groundwork Cardano has already laid, including atomic swaps between the two chains.

What makes Pogun genuinely different from the crowded field of Bitcoin DeFi experiments is its credit market design. The platform operates without traditional oracles or collateral pools. There are no margin calls. Instead, transactions rely on bilateral agreements between counterparties.

The rollout timeline The non-margin credit market is slated to hit Cardano’s mainnet by Q2 2026. A yield-generating application follows in Q3 2026. The trust-minimized BitVM mirroring implementation is planned for Q4 2026.

The project is led by Omer Husain and sits within a broader package of nine IOG proposals requesting nearly $50 million in funding for 2026. That funding encompasses network scalability upgrades and performance improvements beyond just the Pogun platform itself.

All transactions within Pogun require ADA fees. Revenues from the project flow back into the Cardano treasury.

What this means for investors The competitive landscape includes Stacks, Babylon, and several other projects also vying for Bitcoin’s idle capital. Cardano’s eUTXO model shares architectural DNA with Bitcoin’s own transaction model.

The $50 million funding request across nine proposals signals that IOG is making a substantial bet on cross-chain interoperability as Cardano’s growth strategy. The Q4 2026 BitVM implementation is the linchpin, and trust-minimized bridges have proven extraordinarily difficult to ship securely.

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CCIP Growth and Total Value Secured@chainlink wrapped Q2 2026 with $110 billion in total value secured, according to its quarterly review. Over $7 billion in cross-chain token value migrated to CCIP in the quarter, driven by a shift toward secure-by-default interoperability infrastructure, while CCIP posted quarterly volume of $4.9 billion, a 353% year-over-year increase.

Numerous protocols deprecated their legacy bridging solutions and migrated to CCIP as their exclusive cross-chain infrastructure. That follows a strong Q1, when CCIP transfer volume grew 319% year over year and 78% quarter over quarter. The Q2 numbers suggest momentum is building, not levelling off.

TradFi Integration Takes Centre StageThe more consequential story is on the traditional finance side. On May 12, 2026, the Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation selected Chainlink's Runtime Environment, known as CRE, to power its Collateral AppChain. The AppChain, scheduled to launch in Q4 2026, will manage real-time collateral operations including pricing, valuation, margining, and settlement for tokenized assets across multiple blockchains.

Then there is Project Pangea. Chainlink, alongside multinational banking consortia, launched Project Pangea to redefine international FX markets, bringing together 50+ banks representing $10+ trillion in assets to unlock cross-border T+0 atomic settlement via Chainlink, ISO 20022 messaging, and existing Swift infrastructure. Banks interact with the system through their existing Swift payment infrastructure, with instructions routing through Chainlink's Runtime Environment, which translates ISO 20022 messages into onchain settlement actions without requiring institutions to rebuild internal systems.

Chainlink's data standard has also landed on the AWS Marketplace, broadening its reach into enterprise cloud infrastructure. These wins helped push Chainlink's Total Value Secured to $110 billion and earned Chainlink the number four spot on Fortune's Crypto 100 list for Blockchain and Protocols. Oracles were once crypto's background plumbing. Quarters like this suggest they are becoming the connective tissue between traditional finance and the chains it is moving onto.

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Chainlink Quarterly Review Q2 2026, Chainlink
Chainlink's CRE Selected by DTCC and Project Pangea, Crypto Briefing
Chainlink Launches Project Pangea With 50+ Banks, The Defiant

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CompaniesSAN FRANCISCO, July 24 (Reuters) - Nvidia (NVDA.O), opens new tab and South Korea's SK Group on ​Friday unveiled a more than $500 ‌billion AI initiative spanning large-scale AI data centers and next-generation memory, ​Nvidia said.

The initiative includes ​a long-term partnership with SK Hynix (000660.KS), opens new tab ⁠to secure next-generation memory ​supply for Nvidia and jointly develop ​high-bandwidth memory for AI training, AI agents and physical AI applications.

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As part ​of the initiative, SK Telecom (017670.KS), opens new tab ​plans to build a 2-gigawatt AI data ‌center ⁠powered by Nvidia's Vera Rubin chips and SK Hynix's HBM4 high-bandwidth memory, with the first ​facility ​due to ⁠come online in 2027, Nvidia added.

Separately, Nvidia said ​it, Naver (035420.KS), opens new tab and Brookfield ​plan ⁠to expand Naver's AI data center in South Korea.

Reporting by ⁠Stephen ​Nellis in San ​Francisco and Heekyong Yang and Jack Kim ​in Seoul; Editing by Chris Reese

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Most exchanges and partners have signaled readiness for the hard fork, though a few are still reviewing details and the upgrade has not yet activated.

The Stacks community approved SIP-045, the Bitcoin Staking upgrade, with more than 99% of votes cast in favor, Stacks co-creator Muneeb Ali said, setting up a hard fork targeted for around July 29 at roughly Bitcoin block 907,740.

The upgrade, formally "PoX-5: Bitcoin Staking and Emission Schedule Alignment," lets participants lock BTC in a timelocked contract on Bitcoin's base layer — under their own keys — and pair it with locked STX to earn yield paid in bitcoin. A companion proposal, SIP-044, which brings Clarity 6 and new staking post-conditions, passed alongside it. Voting opened July 6; hard-fork votes require at least 80% approval from stacked STX.

"Bitcoin is the world's most trusted asset precisely because of its design and safety principles on the L1," Ali said when the Bitcoin Staking whitepaper was published in May. "Holders can now earn yield denominated in BTC, trustlessly, while their Bitcoin stays exactly where it belongs."

How the Mechanism WorksStakers fund a timelocked UTXO on Bitcoin using OP_CHECKLOCKTIMEVERIFY, pair it with an STX lock equal to at least 5% of the bond, and commit for roughly six months. The Stacks contract verifies the Bitcoin-side lock with an SPV proof — no custodian or trusted bridge. Yield comes from the BTC that miners already bid through Proof of Transfer: paired bonds get a target of about 3% APY in BTC, STX-only stackers take 85% of the excess, and 15% builds a reserve that buffers shortfalls. There is no slashing; principal returns in full when the timelock expires.

The bootstrap phase caps capacity at 3,000 BTC, managed by the Stacks Endowment with whitelisted partners and about 10% open to pools. A public testnet went live this week, and a "Genesis Bond" is targeted for late August.

SIP-045 also reverses April's emissions cut, restoring the STX coinbase to 1,000 STX per Bitcoin block from 500 — a meaningful supply increase bundled with the staking mechanism.

Yield Without Leaving BitcoinStacks has distributed more than 4,200 BTC — roughly $500 million — in stacking rewards since Proof of Transfer went live in 2021, and its sBTC bridged asset holds about $186 million, per DefiLlama, down from a Q1 peak of $545 million as BTC's price fell.

The vote result did nothing for the token. STX trades at $0.144, down 13% in 24 hours, per CoinGecko, sharply underperforming Bitcoin's 1.9% decline.

, /PRNewswire/ -- The board of directors of Portland General Electric Company (NYSE: POR) declared a quarterly common stock dividend of $0.55125 per share.

The company's dividend is evaluated based on capital requirements and financial performance. PGE targets a dividend payout ratio of 60 to 70% over the long term.

The quarterly dividend is payable on or before October 15, 2026, to shareholders of record at the close of business on September 25, 2026.

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Portland General Electric (NYSE: POR) is an integrated energy company that generates, transmits and distributes electricity to nearly 960,000 customers serving an area of approximately 2 million Oregonians. Since 1889, Portland General Electric (PGE) has been powering economies, delivering safe, affordable and reliable electricity while working to transform energy systems to meet evolving customer needs. PGE continues to make progress towards emissions reduction targets, and customers have set the standard for prioritizing clean energy with the No. 1 voluntary renewable energy program in the country. PGE is ranked a top ten utility in the 2025 Forrester U.S. Customer Experience Index. In 2025, PGE employees and retirees volunteered over 18,300 hours to more than 400 nonprofits organizations. Through the PGE Foundation, along with corporate contributions and the employee matching gift program, more than $5 million was directed to charitable organizations supporting economic growth and community resilience across our service area. For information: portlandgeneral.com/news.

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Item 1 of 3 The Pad 2 chopsticks hoist Starship 40 at the SpaceX launch complex to stack the spacecraft atop booster 20 as preparations continue for the second attempt of the 13th test flight of the Starship spacecraft and the Super Heavy v3 booster in Starbase, Texas, U.S., July 22, 2026. REUTERS/Steve Nesius

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WASHINGTON, July 24 (Reuters) - SpaceX's (SPCX.O), opens new tab Starship rocket lifted off from Texas on Friday and deployed its first 20 upgraded Starlink satellites into suborbital ​space, one of many testing goals in the company's 13th test mission as it ‌races to begin routine service with the rocket by the end of the year.

The roughly 400-foot-tall (122 m) Starship rocket system blasted off around 6:50 p.m. ET from SpaceX's Starbase company town, with the Super Heavy first stage booster sending its ​Starship upper stage on a suborbital trajectory. The roughly hour-long mission will conclude with Starship's reentry ​through Earth's atmosphere and a splashdown in the Indian Ocean.

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As Starship approached 16,400 miles ⁠per hour (26,400 kph) in space some 10 minutes into its flight, the Super Heavy booster returned ​to Earth and impacted the Gulf of Mexico harder than expected, SpaceX said, though it had reignited more ​engines than its botched return in May during a previous test flight.

The Starship test flight is SpaceX's 13th since 2023, featuring a new version of the rocket crucial to the company's plans to expand Starlink, land humans on the moon for ​NASA and eventually deploy thousands of artificial intelligence-processing satellites in orbit.

Twenty minutes into its spaceflight, Starship began ​deploying 20 Starlink V3 satellites, dispensing them one by one via the ship's "Pez"-like payload deployment. Flying over a shadowed Earth, ‌thunderstorms ⁠with flashes of lightning were visible in the background 118 miles (190 km) below, according to a camera fixed to the rocket and streamed live by SpaceX.

A crowd of SpaceX engineers in SpaceX's Hawthorne, California, facilities could be heard on the live stream cheering at the rocket's mission milestones, at one point chanting "USA."

While in ​space, the Starlink satellites — a ​new "V3" version with ⁠greater bandwidth capabilities — will deploy solar arrays and antennae to briefly connect with SpaceX's Starlink network of some 10,000 satellites orbiting above.

The Starlinks are the first to ​be deployed by Starship, though they will follow the ship's suborbital trajectory into ​Earth's atmosphere ⁠and burn up.

Some of them have spotlights and cameras that will record Starship's heat shield as it hits intense atmospheric friction later in the mission, giving SpaceX key testing insight into how well the rocket survives its ⁠return from ​space.

SpaceX plans to use Starship by the end of 2026 ​to begin launching thousands of Starlink V3 satellites, expanding the constellation's capacity to be able to connect directly to mobile devices such ​as cell phones. The current network only connects to Starlink-branded dishes.

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Six weeks ago, Oracle (ORCL -4.27%) management guided for about $8.05 in non-GAAP (adjusted) earnings per share this fiscal year. As of this writing, the stock trades around $117 -- less than 15 times that figure, after setting a new 52-week low of $114.75 on Friday. A multiple like that is usually reserved for mature software companies whose growth is ending, not for a business that just guided for revenue growth of about 34%.

However, the analysts covering the software and cloud computing giant haven't followed the stock's price all the way down. The average price target on Oracle sits at about $248, more than double the current share price of about $117.

To be clear, an average price target isn't an investment case, and I wouldn't buy any stock because of one. But a gap this wide is worth understanding. Each side of it is pricing a different answer to the same question: Will Oracle's enormous backlog of AI (artificial intelligence) contracts convert into cash before the cost of building for it damages the company?

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What the market has stopped paying for The selling has been relentless. Oracle shares have fallen about 66% from their high of $345.72, and the pressure traces back to spending.

Oracle's capital expenditures reached $55.7 billion in fiscal 2026 (the year ended May 31, 2026), most of it going into data centers for its cloud infrastructure business. Operating cash flow rose 54% to a record $32 billion, and the build-out consumed all of it. Free cash flow for the year came in at a negative $23.7 billion.

The bill has started arriving in other forms, too. S&P Global Ratings cut Oracle's credit rating to BBB- earlier this month, one notch above junk status, citing the cost of the build-out. And Oracle has said it expects to raise $40 billion through debt and equity financing this fiscal year, including a $20 billion share sale that will dilute existing shareholders.

When a company is burning more than $20 billion of cash a year, the market stops valuing its earnings and starts scrutinizing its balance sheet. A forward multiple below 15 says the market is worried about more than the durability of growth -- but also the risks presented by a deteriorating balance sheet.

What the analysts are still counting The other side of the argument is the business itself, which keeps performing. Fiscal 2026 revenue rose 17% year over year to $67.4 billion, and growth roughly doubled over the course of the year, with fiscal fourth-quarter revenue up 21%. Even more striking, Oracle's cloud infrastructure revenue (the business that rents computing capacity to AI customers) grew 77% for the full year and 93% year over year in fiscal Q4, reaching $5.8 billion for the quarter.

Profits kept up, too. Fiscal 2026 earnings per share came in at $5.83 under generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP), up 34%, though one-time gains on the Ampere chip-business sale and Bloom Energy warrants did much of that lifting -- excluding them, adjusted earnings per share rose 13%.

Then there's the backlog. Remaining performance obligations (Oracle's signed contract value that hasn't yet become revenue) finished fiscal 2026 at $638 billion after growing $85 billion in the final quarter. The prepaid and customer-supplied hardware portions of Oracle's large AI contracts now total about $75 billion -- customers paying for their graphics processing units (GPUs) up front or supplying the chips themselves, which moves part of the spending burden onto the customers.

If most of that backlog converts on schedule, the math behind a $248 target isn't hard to follow. Management's forecast calls for about $90 billion of revenue this fiscal year, or growth of about 34%. Growth like that, at less than 15 times guided earnings, is exactly what the covering analysts are pointing at.

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So whose number is closer to the truth? Probably neither, fully. The market is treating guidance backed by signed contracts as if it were speculative. And the analysts are extrapolating a backlog whose single largest customer is itself an unprofitable AI company. It's also worth remembering that a price target costs its publisher nothing.

My own answer is that I don't need to pick a side yet. The stock is arguably cheap against guidance, but the cash burn is enormous, and the next few quarters will show whether free cash flow is finding a floor while the backlog converts into revenue. That evidence, not the distance to a price target, is what could get me to buy.

Until it shows up, I'm staying on the sidelines. And I'd suggest investors who do buy this dip keep the position small. After all, shares have been beaten down for a reason.

Pantera Capital led the first close of a WLD sale that the foundation says will push its iris-scanning “proof of human” ID toward enterprises, consumers, and AI agents.

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Posted July 24, 2026 at 4:51 pm EST.

The World Foundation, the nonprofit steward of the Sam Altman co-founded identity project once known as Worldcoin, said Friday it raised an initial $52.5 million in a token sale to strategic investors, with every WLD token in the round locked up for a year.

Pantera Capital led the first close, according to a press release, joined by Bain Capital Crypto, Eightco Holdings, Selini Capital, Susquehanna Crypto and other backers. The foundation said the full 12-month lockup signals a long-term bet rather than a quick flip, and that the money will go toward pushing World ID, its “proof of human” verification system, to organizations, consumers and their AI agents.

A bet on the agentic web World’s pitch is that as AI agents flood the internet, platforms will need a dependable way to tell people apart from machines. Its answer is a one-time iris scan at a physical device called the Orb, which generates an ID that proves someone is a unique human without exposing who they are.

“The need for Proof of Human is becoming acutely clear with the acceleration of AI development, and we see this in the influx of enterprise traction,” said Cosmo Jiang, a general partner at Pantera Capital, in a statement. The foundation said World ID is being wired into platforms including Zoom, Docusign, Okta, Vercel and Tinder this year, and pointed to the enterprise-focused World ID 4.0 it released earlier in 2026.

Scaling as the token lags The raise landed on the three-year anniversary of World’s July 2023 production launch, a stretch in which the network grew to more than 39 million members and over 18 million Orb-verified humans. It also follows the $135 million World sold to Andreessen Horowitz and Bain Capital Crypto in May 2025, when the network counted 26 million users.

Investors committed even as WLD trades around $0.37, roughly 97% below its March 2024 peak.

Tom Lee, a board member of Eightco, the Nasdaq-listed company that holds more than 283 million WLD, said in the release that World’s technology is “among the most important building blocks to secure and verify interactions in an increasingly digital driven world.”

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In the latest close session, Archrock Inc. (AROC - Free Report) was down 5.86% at $36.14. The stock fell short of the S&P 500, which registered a gain of 0.05% for the day. Meanwhile, the Dow experienced a rise of 0.46%, and the technology-dominated Nasdaq saw a decrease of 0.64%.

The stock of natural gas compression services business has fallen by 7.27% in the past month, lagging the Oils-Energy sector's gain of 6.52% and the S&P 500's gain of 0.61%.

The upcoming earnings release of Archrock Inc. will be of great interest to investors. The company's earnings report is expected on August 4, 2026. The company's earnings per share (EPS) are projected to be $0.46, reflecting a 17.95% increase from the same quarter last year. Our most recent consensus estimate is calling for quarterly revenue of $390.4 million, up 1.89% from the year-ago period.

In terms of the entire fiscal year, the Zacks Consensus Estimates predict earnings of $1.9 per share and a revenue of $1.55 billion, indicating changes of 0% and +4.19%, respectively, from the former year.

Investors should also pay attention to any latest changes in analyst estimates for Archrock Inc. These revisions help to show the ever-changing nature of near-term business trends. Consequently, upward revisions in estimates express analysts' positivity towards the business operations and its ability to generate profits.

Our research reveals that these estimate alterations are directly linked with the stock price performance in the near future. Investors can capitalize on this by using the Zacks Rank. This model considers these estimate changes and provides a simple, actionable rating system.

The Zacks Rank system, which ranges from #1 (Strong Buy) to #5 (Strong Sell), has an impressive outside-audited track record of outperformance, with #1 stocks generating an average annual return of +25% since 1988. Over the past month, there's been no change in the Zacks Consensus EPS estimate. At present, Archrock Inc. boasts a Zacks Rank of #3 (Hold).

From a valuation perspective, Archrock Inc. is currently exchanging hands at a Forward P/E ratio of 20.17. This signifies a discount in comparison to the average Forward P/E of 24.8 for its industry.

We can additionally observe that AROC currently boasts a PEG ratio of 1.68. The PEG ratio bears resemblance to the frequently used P/E ratio, but this parameter also includes the company's expected earnings growth trajectory. The Oil and Gas - Field Services was holding an average PEG ratio of 1.68 at yesterday's closing price.

The Oil and Gas - Field Services industry is part of the Oils-Energy sector. This group has a Zacks Industry Rank of 95, putting it in the top 39% of all 250+ industries.

The Zacks Industry Rank assesses the vigor of our specific industry groups by computing the average Zacks Rank of the individual stocks incorporated in the groups. Our research shows that the top 50% rated industries outperform the bottom half by a factor of 2 to 1.

Ensure to harness Zacks.com to stay updated with all these stock-shifting metrics, among others, in the next trading sessions.

It was not an easy week for the euro. Now, EUR/USD has accumulated a decline of more than 0.4% over the last 2 trading sessions, reflecting significant short-term weakness in the European currency.

For now, selling pressure remains relevant, in a context where the European Central Bank decision failed to generate greater appeal for the euro. In addition, the U.S. dollar continues to show some strength as global risk events drive demand for liquidity and more defensive assets.

If this dynamic continues, selling pressure could continue to shape EUR/USD movements over the next few trading sessions.

Does the ECB fail to support the euro? During the week, the European Central Bank held its interest rate decision. The deposit rate remained unchanged at 2.25%, while the refinancing rate stayed stable at 2.4%.

In its message after the meeting, the central bank maintained a cautious pause. The institution noted that inflationary pressures could remain relevant, but also highlighted that economic dynamics in Europe may not support consistent interest rate increases.

For this reason, the ECB showed a fairly neutral stance toward possible changes in monetary policy. It also emphasized that future decisions will depend on economic data meeting by meeting, without committing to a specific path in the short term.

After the event, the central bank’s neutrality did not generate a relevant increase in the euro’s relative appeal. This is mainly because the ECB did not confirm an outlook for higher rates, while in the United States, the Federal Reserve continues to show signs that it could adopt a more aggressive stance over the coming months.

This difference keeps in place a dynamic that has been relevant for several months in the bond market. Currently, U.S. 10-year Treasury yields remain above 4.6%, while European bond yields barely reach the 3.6% area.

Source: TradingEconomics

The differential between both markets continues to favor dollar-denominated investments. The United States maintains a more attractive bond market, supported by a potentially more aggressive Fed, while Europe faces a more indecisive central bank and a less competitive bond yield.

This dynamic could continue to limit appetite for the euro in the short term. If the rate differential remains in place, EUR/USD could continue to face selling pressure over the next few trading sessions.

Is uncertainty becoming relevant? The week was also marked by important risk events for markets. On one hand, new escalations in the Middle East conflict pushed WTI crude oil above 90 dollars per barrel. On the other hand, new comments from the U.S. government pointed to a global tariff plan of up to 12.5% for several countries.

Both events have revived market concerns about a broader trade conflict and possible additional inflationary pressure. This combination could be affecting risk sentiment and driving flows toward safe-haven assets in the short term.

In this scenario, the behavior of the U.S. dollar is key. In previous months, the currency had already acted as one of the market’s main liquidity safe havens. During this week, that dynamic became evident again in the DXY index, which measures the dollar’s strength against its main peers.

As risks increased across markets, the DXY maintained consistent gains and moved back above the 101-point area, approaching the year’s highs again. This behavior reflects relevant demand for the dollar in an environment of greater uncertainty.

Source: TradingEconomics

The role of the U.S. dollar remains fundamental. If the market once again sees the currency as a liquidity safe haven, and risk events continue to generate uncertainty, demand for the USD could remain strong.

This would make a consistent recovery in the euro more difficult and could continue to generate selling pressure on EUR/USD over the next few trading sessions.

Technical forecast for EUR/USD Source: StoneX, Tradingview

Sideways range begins to emerge: Although the daily EUR/USD chart still maintains a major long-term bearish trend line, a short-term sideways range has also started to form. This range has an upper barrier near 1.14742 and a lower area around 1.13538. If selling pressure fails to stabilize consistently, this sideways structure could remain relevant over the next few trading sessions.
  RSI: Now, the RSI remains below the neutral 50 level, suggesting that selling impulses continue to dominate the average of the last 14 sessions. If this dynamic continues, the indicator could keep highlighting a relevant selling bias in EUR/USD over the next few sessions.
  TRIX: The TRIX also remains below the neutral 0 line, indicating that bearish strength in the exponential moving averages remains relevant. This reading reinforces the possibility that the selling bias could continue to be important in the short term.
  Key levels:

1.14742 – Relevant resistance: This recent weekly high coincides with the area of the 50-period simple moving average. Price movements above this level could start to put the bearish structure and current sideways range at risk, opening room for a more relevant buying bias over the coming weeks.
  1.14125 – Near-term barrier: This level corresponds to an important retracement area on the daily chart. If price fails to move consistently away from this reference, it could continue to highlight a phase of indecision and give more relevance to the current sideways channel over the next few sessions.
  1.13538 – Definitive support: This level corresponds to the 2026 low zone and represents the most important bearish barrier in the short term. Moves below this area would mark new relevant lows for the year and could reinforce a dominant selling bias, potentially extending the long bearish trend line over the coming weeks.
  Written by Julian Pineda, CFA, CMT – Market Analyst

Follow him on: @julianpineda25

At 6:45 p.m. ET tonight, SpaceX (SPCX -2.85%) gets a third try at its most consequential launch as a public company. Starship Flight 13 has a 90-minute window to lift off from the company's Starbase site in Texas, carrying the first 20 next-generation Starlink V3 satellites.

"Some of the engines didn't start, triggering an automatic launch abort," CEO Elon Musk wrote on X after the first attempt on July 16. SpaceX swapped out engines, and then weather postponed the second try on Thursday.

The stock could use the win. Shares sit at about $112 as of this writing, roughly 1% above their all-time low of $110.85 and well below the $135 price from June's initial public offering (IPO).

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What tonight actually decides is the timeline of Starlink's next capacity leap. Each V3 satellite is designed to deliver about 1 terabit per second of downlink capacity, roughly 10 times what the current generation of satellites provides. A full Starship load of about 60 of them would add roughly 60 terabits per second to the network, about 20 times what a Falcon 9 launch delivers today. That capacity is what lets a satellite network sell faster service to more subscribers without congestion. It's the foundation of the company's plan to turn Starlink into a gigabit-speed internet provider.

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The satellites can only ride on Starship, though, and Starship has kept them grounded for eight days now. The 20 satellites aboard are a deployment test: They will extend their solar arrays and antennas and attempt to connect with the larger Starlink constellation. Until that demonstration works, the V3 capacity ramp stays theoretical.

A successful flight tonight won't settle the argument over the stock, which still carries a market value near $1.5 trillion against a business that loses money. The next major financial update arrives Aug. 4, when SpaceX is scheduled to report its first quarterly results as a public company. But a clean deployment would show the next generation of the company's biggest product working in space before those numbers land. After six weeks of nearly uninterrupted decline, that would count as the first hard piece of good news this stock has had.

Daniel Sparks and his clients do not have positions in any of the stocks mentioned. The Motley Fool has no position in any of the stocks mentioned. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy.

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Image Credits:Eric Thayer/Los Angeles Times / Getty Images Waymo is reportedly looking for a way out of its deal with Uber, which has made the Alphabet-owned company’s robotaxis available on the ride-hailing giant’s network in Austin and Atlanta, according to the Financial Times.

Waymo already told Uber that it intends to offer robotaxis on its own app in those markets starting in January 2028 and alongside the existing offering, the ride-hail giant told TechCrunch on Friday. Uber said the contract with Waymo that covers Austin and Atlanta ends in May 2028. The two companies already split in Phoenix earlier this year, as TechCrunch first reported.

Waymo didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.

This all follows months of rising tensions between Waymo and Uber. Earlier this year, Uber CTO Praveen Neppalli posted a video of what he thought was unsafe and “scary” behavior of a Waymo robotaxi. In May, Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi lightly criticized the behavior of Waymo’s robotaxis in school zones and emergency situations during an earnings call, though without naming the company.

Waymo, meanwhile, has wound up opposite Uber in a number of fresh policy fights over robotaxi regulations.

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Boeing (NYSE:BA | BA Price Prediction) enters its July 28 Q2 earnings report with a decade of revenue visibility with a market cap that’s less than a quarter of the price of the total order book. With deliveries rising, debt falling, and defense revenue accelerating, Boeing is showing meaningful progress in its turnaround.

Boeing’s Backlog Is 4x Larger Than Its Market Cap Boeing closed Q1 2026 with a record $695 billion backlog and currently sports a market cap of $164.48 billion. First-quarter revenue grew 14% year over year to $22.217 billion, commercial deliveries climbed to 143 aircraft from 130, and management paid down $6.95 billion of debt in the quarter, taking total debt from $54.1 billion to $47.2 billion.

The Defense Boom Is Already Showing Up in Boeing’s Results The FY2027 Department of War budget totals roughly $1.45 trillion, a 42% annual increase with 26% growth in air power funding. Boeing is already scaling into it: Patriot missile seeker production rises to 850 units in 2026 from 650 last year and 400 two years ago.

Defense, Space & Security revenue jumped 21% to $7.599 billion with operating earnings up 50% to $233 million. On July 23, the FAA restored Boeing’s authority to issue final airworthiness certifications for the 737 MAX and 787, removing a multi-year overhang.

Boeing Has a Bigger Order Book Than Lockheed Martin and RTX Combined Lockheed Martin (NYSE:LMT) and RTX Corporation (NYSE:RTX) posted strong quarters, with Lockheed up 10% and RTX up 7%, but their order books are a fraction of Boeing’s. Lockheed reports a $230 billion backlog and RTX $289 billion, versus Boeing’s $695 billion.

Analysts’ consensus price target on $BA sits at $270.08 against the stock’s current share price of $209.23, with 21 buy ratings versus one sell.

The Bottom Line: Boeing’s Turnaround Has Become Measurable Boeing’s Q2 2026 earnings report is due July 28, with the Street modeling a loss of 34 cents per share on $24.05 billion of revenue. The Q1 core loss already narrowed from $0.49 to $0.20, Director Bradley Tilden bought 1,370 shares at $218.50 in May, and prediction markets price the earnings beat at 64% with a crowd that has been 100% correct on prior BA markets. The July 28 earnings report is the next catalyst that could let Boeing’s backlog thesis compound.

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