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Digital Assets Weekly: Wall Street Goes Onchain
Bitcoin crossed $80,000 Sunday. First time since January. The move triggered over $116 million in liquidations, nearly all of them shorts. April closed up 13% for BTC, its best month in a year. Ethereum held near $2,381. Solana at $84.79. XRP rangebound at $1.39. Prices aside, this was a week of structural decisions. Congress cleared…
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How NEXCOM Is Solving the Post-Quantum Performance Problem at the Edge
Encryption standards finalized. Federal deadlines set. The hardware to back it up has been quietly lagging. NEXCOM’s new edge server is a direct answer to that gap. Adversaries are already collecting encrypted data. Not to read now. To read later, once quantum computers grow powerful enough to break the encryption protecting it. The attack has…
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ATTOM’s New AI Property Valuation Model Works Where Traditional AVMs Break Down
The US housing market has a valuation problem that most people outside mortgage and insurance underwriting never think about. Transaction volume collapsed from its 2021 peak and has stayed low. Elevated mortgage rates froze move-up buyers in place. The result is a market with far fewer recent comparable sales than traditional automated valuation models were…
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Australia Just Approved the First Drug to Prevent Hearing Loss From Childhood Chemotherapy
Cisplatin works. That is both its value and its problem. The chemotherapy drug has been a cornerstone of treatment for childhood solid tumors for decades. It is effective against a wide range of cancers including hepatoblastoma, neuroblastoma, and osteosarcoma. It is also one of the most reliably ototoxic drugs in oncology, meaning it damages the…
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Critical Minerals Weekly: Washington Acts While China Tightens Supply Chains
Copper held above $5.94 per pound on Monday, up 27.8% from this time last year and up 6.4% in just the past month. Gold sat near $4,600 per ounce, down roughly 12% since the Middle East conflict began in late February but structurally supported by central bank buying. Cobalt traded flat at $56,290 per metric…
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Toyota and Hyroad Just Signed One of the Largest Hydrogen Truck Deals in the US
Hydrogen trucking has been stuck in pilot program purgatory for years. Forty trucks under a definitive commercial agreement is a different kind of announcement. Hyroad Energy and Toyota Motor North America announced on May 4, 2026 at ACT Expo in Las Vegas that they have signed a definitive agreement to deploy 40 hydrogen fuel cell…
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Why EgyptAir’s 737 MAX Delivery Is More Than Just a Fleet Milestone
Egypt’s national carrier just took delivery of its first 737 MAX. Fifty years after EgyptAir first ordered the 737 family in 1975, the airline is joining the 450-plus operators globally that have made the MAX the backbone of short- and medium-haul aviation. Boeing (NYSE: BA) announced on May 3, 2026 that EgyptAir has taken delivery…
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Australia Just Approved the First New Therapy for Chronic GVHD
Chronic graft-versus-host disease develops when donated stem cells attack the patient’s own body. It affects 40 to 50% of stem cell transplant recipients. In most cases three or more organs are involved. For patients who have already failed two lines of treatment, the options until now have been limited and the outcomes often poor. Australia…
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South Korea’s Oldest Bank Just Joined MoonPay’s Won Stablecoin Consortium
South Korea’s won is one of the most traded currencies in Asia. It is almost entirely absent from global digital finance. That gap is what MoonPay Korea is positioning to close. On April 30, 2026, MoonPay Korea announced it will support the global distribution, cross-border settlement, wallet access, and currency conversion infrastructure for Korea’s emerging…
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Nevada King Just Doubled Its Drill Program After Finding 20.8 g/t Gold at Surface
Nevada’s Battle Mountain trend has produced some of the largest gold deposits in North America. Nevada King (TSXV: NKG | OTCQB: NKGFF) is drilling to find out how large Atlanta might become. The company doubled its Phase 4 drill program on April 28, 2026, from 20,000 meters to 40,000 meters of reverse circulation drilling across…
