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Bitcoin is the world's first decentralized cryptocurrency, created in 2009 by the pseudonymous Satoshi Nakamoto. It enables peer-to-peer electronic cash transactions without intermediaries like banks or governments, operating on a blockchain secured by Proof of Work mining and the SHA-256 cryptographic algorithm.   With a fixed supply cap of 21 million coins and programmatic halvings every four years that reduce miner rewards, Bitcoin is designed as a deflationary digital asset often called "digital gold." Its value stems from solving the double-spending problem without trusted intermediaries, creating the first truly scarce digital asset with censorship resistance and permissionless access that no government, corporation, or individual can control.  Bitcoin operates as a decentralized peer-to-peer network where transactions are recorded on a public ledger called the blockchain, distributed across thousands of computers globally. Transactions are grouped into blocks added approximately every 10 minutes through mining, where specialized computers compete to solve complex mathematical puzzles.   Bitcoin has achieved mainstream adoption through multiple vectors. The January 2024 SEC approval of 11 spot Bitcoin ETFs opened Bitcoin investment to traditional finance participants, and corporations like Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy) are using Bitcoin as a treasury reserve asset to protect against currency debasement, offering MSTR holders amplified exposure to Bitcoin.   The Bitcoin ecosystem continues to evolve with innovations like Ordinals, which emerged in January 2023 to enable NFT-like functionality directly on Bitcoin, and BRC-20 tokens, an experimental standard for creating fungible tokens using Ordinal inscriptions. BTCFi (Bitcoin Finance) represents emerging financial applications extending beyond Bitcoin's traditional role, with protocols like Babylon allowing Bitcoin holders to stake BTC to secure Proof of Stake chains.

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Bitcoin is trending after breaking above a long-standing resistance zone to its highest levels in months, with traders citing short liquidations, anticipated ETF demand, and a weekly close above the 50-week moving average as confirmation signals. Sentiment is split between calls that the bear market or crypto winter is over and skeptics warning the move is a bull trap or manipulated pump headed for a dump.

XRP is a decentralized digital asset and the native token of the XRP Ledger, a Layer 1 blockchain designed for high-performance global payments. Its primary value proposition is offering a fast, cost-effective alternative to traditional banking systems by enabling near-instant cross-border settlements that finalize in three to five seconds. By serving as a neutral bridge asset between different fiat currencies, it helps financial institutions lower liquidity costs and eliminates the need for pre-funded accounts.  The network is unique because it utilizes a federated consensus protocol instead of energy-intensive mining or staking. This system achieves deterministic finality through a Unique Node List of trusted validators who must reach an eighty percent agreement threshold to permanently record transactions. This infrastructure supports a sustained throughput of 1,500 transactions per second and includes a built-in decentralized exchange that allows for the automated trading of any tokenized asset without intermediaries.  The project traces its origins back to 2004 with Ryan Fugger before being co-founded in its modern form by Jed McCaleb and Chris Larsen. The company, now known as Ripple, works with major financial institutions as partners and investors to build global payment solutions. To protect the network from spam, a small amount of XRP is burned during every transaction, and the token is further utilized by institutions as collateral to access traditional markets and manage digital asset infrastructure.  Institutional adoption of the asset reached a major milestone in November 2025 when the SEC approved the first wave of spot XRP ETFs. These products, offered by major issuers including Bitwise, Grayscale, 21Shares, Canary Capital, and Franklin Templeton, are now listed on prominent exchanges like the NYSE Arca, Nasdaq, and Cboe BZX. While Ripple remains a key contributor to the ecosystem, the underlying XRP Ledger continues to operate as an open-source and decentralized network.

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XRP is surging as traders watch whether it can break through a resistance level that has capped rallies for months, with the community split on whether the move is a sustainable breakout or a short squeeze following the Clarity Act's failed Senate vote. Reports of whale accumulation and the SEC and CFTC advancing crypto market rules in the legislation's absence are fueling bullish sentiment, while skeptics cite heavy token supply and a history of failed breakout attempts.

Critical Metals Corp. engages in the mining, exploration, and development of lithium metals. It owns Wolfsberg Project and Tanbreez Project. The company was founded on October 24, 2022 and is headquartered in British Virgin Islands.

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CRML is drawing heavy attention after Trump announced a U.S.-Denmark-Greenland security pact granting the U.S. permanent security access to Greenland, which many traders view as a tailwind for the company's Tanbreez rare-earth project. Debate centers on short-squeeze potential given elevated short interest versus skeptics who argue the not-yet-signed deal doesn't change fundamentals, with some also watching the U.S.-China summit for critical-minerals implications.

New Era Energy & Digital, Inc. is an exploration and production company, which engages in selling oil and natural gas products. The company was founded on February 6, 2023 and is headquartered in Midland, TX.

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Traders are rallying around a 20-year, roughly 207 MW power purchase agreement with Vistra for the company's Texas data center campus, viewing it as confirmation the project is advancing toward a hyperscaler tenant lease following Odessa's approval of the Phase 1 plat. Community sentiment is heavily bullish with short-squeeze speculation, though some traders note the release indicates a tenant is still being sought and skeptics dismiss the move as hype around a minimal-revenue developer.

Strategy, Inc. engages in the development of fixed-income instruments that provide investors varying degrees of economic exposure to bitcoin. It executes bitcoin acquisition, capital management, and capital markets strategies. The company was founded by Michael J. Saylor and Sanjeev K. Bansal on November 17, 1989, and is headquartered in Tysons Corner, VA.

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Bitcoin's surge above $85,000 to its highest levels since January is driving Strategy's outsized rally alongside other crypto-linked equities. Bulls are calling it a short squeeze while skeptics argue the shares trade at an outsized premium to the company's bitcoin holdings, and traders are also watching for a still-unconfirmed signal of a fresh BTC purchase from Michael Saylor.

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. engages in the semiconductor business. Its products include processors, accelerators, graphics, adaptive SoCs, FPGAs, and SOMs, and software, tools, and apps. The firm offers artificial intelligence, industries, workloads, and gaming solutions. The company was founded by W. J. Sanders III on May 1, 1969 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

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Advanced Micro Devices Inc

Shares are pushing toward record highs on reports that AMD notified customers of an approximately 10% chip price increase starting in the fourth quarter, tied to higher TSMC wafer costs and read by supporters as pricing power amid tightening AI and server-CPU demand. A late-session short squeeze added fuel to the run, leaving traders split between those calling for a continued re-rating and bears arguing the stock is overvalued at current multiples and due for a pullback.

Ethereum is a global, open-source platform for decentralized applications. In other words, it is a decentralized blockchain platform that enables developers to build and deploy smart contracts and applications without central authority control. Unlike Bitcoin, which primarily functions as digital currency, Ethereum operates as a programmable global computer where developers can create any type of decentralized service.   The platform hosts over $14 billion in DeFi applications with hundreds of thousands of active users across financial protocols, NFT marketplaces, and gaming platforms. Its transition to Proof of Stake in September 2022 reduced energy consumption by over 99%, addressing environmental concerns while strengthening network security.  The network operates through thousands of independent validator nodes that process transactions and execute smart contracts on the Ethereum Virtual Machine. Smart contracts are self-executing programs written in Solidity that automatically carry out agreements when conditions are met, eliminating intermediaries like banks or brokers.   Validators stake ETH as collateral to propose and validate blocks, earning rewards for honest participation while facing penalties for malicious behavior. The EIP-1559 upgrade introduced a dynamic base fee mechanism that burns ETH with each transaction, creating deflationary pressure during high network activity when more ETH is burned than issued to validators.  Vitalik Buterin proposed Ethereum in 2013, but seven co-founders helped build it, including Gavin Wood who created Solidity and the EVM technical specification, and Joseph Lubin who founded ConsenSys. The project launched in July 2015 after raising over $18 million through crowdfunding, quickly becoming the largest blockchain developer community. Major milestones include the 2020 Beacon Chain launch, the 2021 London hard fork implementing fee burning, and the 2022 Merge to Proof of Stake.   Ether (ETH) serves multiple functions: paying transaction fees (gas), staking to secure the network and earn 3-5% annual yields, serving as collateral in DeFi protocols, and purchasing NFTs and digital assets. The asset is increasingly adopted by traditional institutions, with publicly traded companies adding ETH to corporate treasuries to generate staking yields while maintaining blockchain exposure, and in 2024, the SEC approved spot Ethereum ETFs, allowing traditional investors to gain exposure through conventional brokerage accounts.  Ethereum's roadmap focuses on dramatically increasing transaction capacity to over 100,000 per second, reducing confirmation times, and enhancing decentralization while maintaining security against future threats like quantum computing.

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Ethereum is surging after breaking through a repeatedly tested resistance zone, with traders celebrating a wave of short liquidations and framing the move as the start of a renewed bull leg. The rally is unfolding despite the Senate stalling crypto market-structure legislation, and the community is split between bulls citing SEC and CFTC regulatory moves as support and bears warning the squeeze-driven rally could fade.

Novo Nordisk A/S is a global healthcare company, which engages in the discovery, development, manufacturing and marketing of pharmaceutical products. It operates through the Diabetes and Obesity Care and Rare Disease segments. The Diabetes and Obesity Care segment includes diabetes, obesity, cardiovascular, and emerging therapy areas. The Rare Disease segment refers to rare blood disorders, rare endocrine disorders, and hormone replacement therapy. The company was founded by Harald Pedersen and Thorvald Pedersen in 1923 is headquartered in Bagsværd, Denmark.

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Novo Nordisk A/S

Traders are focused on Novo Nordisk's Capital Markets Day, where management laid out a post-Wegovy growth strategy targeting more than five new blockbusters by 2030, but the stock slid as investors judged the long-dated targets unconvincing given semaglutide patent-cliff risk and competition from Eli Lilly. Reaction is divided between criticism of CEO Mike Doustdar's presentation and the rebrand to 'Novo,' trader claims that the selloff was engineered by shorts, and dip-buyers who view the drop as overdone.

Candel Therapeutics, Inc. is a clinical stage biotechnology company, which engages in the development and commercialization of viral immunotherapies. Its pipeline includes CAN-2409 and CAN-3110. The company was founded by Estuardo Aguilar-Cordova in 2002 and is headquartered in Needham, MA.

Candel Therapeutics Inc

Candel Therapeutics is drawing heavy debate after a sharp pullback tied to CEO Paul Peter Tak's pre-arranged sale of roughly 280,000 shares, with traders divided over whether his 'extremely tight' comments about the Q4 BLA filing timeline and a pushed-back completion date for the FDA-requested biodistribution study signal a submission delay. Bulls call the sale a routine 10b5-1 plan and point to reiterated Q4 filing targets and a Bank of America upgrade to Buy, while skeptics see the sale's timing and study change as red flags pointing to delay and future dilution.

Dogecoin is an open-source digital currency based on the "Doge" meme that functions as a peer-to-peer medium for fast payments and digital tipping. Unlike projects backed by corporate entities, its value is driven by a global community, and the project is managed by a decentralized group of volunteers and the non-profit Dogecoin Foundation rather than a formal company.  Originally created in 2013 by software engineers Billy Markus and Jackson Palmer as a market parody, the project held no public sale or venture capital rounds. The network operates as a fork of LuckyCoin, which itself was a fork of Litecoin, using a proof of work consensus mechanism. It employs the Scrypt algorithm to ensure the mining process remains fast and efficient, with new blocks processed every 60 seconds. A unique technical feature is its use of merged mining, allowing miners to secure Dogecoin simultaneously with other Scrypt-based networks like Litecoin.  To keep transaction fees low and the network running indefinitely, Dogecoin features an uncapped supply where new coins are added forever. In a major regulatory milestone in March 2026, a joint SEC and CFTC framework officially classified Dogecoin as a digital commodity, placing it in the same asset category as gold or oil.

Dogecoin

Dogecoin is rebounding with the broader crypto market as Bitcoin recovers, following a sectorwide selloff traders tie to the Senate's failure to advance the CLARITY Act and the Fed's rate decision. The community is split between calling the drop a largely priced-in knee-jerk reaction  pointing to the CFTC's pledge to issue its own crypto rules despite the failed vote  and bracing for further downside.

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US Global Investors Q4 2026 Earnings Call: Complete Transcript

US Global Investors (NASDAQ:GROW) reported fourth-quarter financial results on Friday. The transcript from the company's fourth-quarter earnings call has been provided below.
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U S Global Investors Inc. Has $2.63 Million Stock Position in Tesla, Inc. $TSLA

U S Global Investors Inc. boosted its stake in shares of Tesla, Inc. (NASDAQ:TSLA - Free Report) by 101.4% in the 4th quarter, according to the company in its most recent 13F filing with the...

U S Global Investors Inc. Grows Stock Position in Hilton Worldwide Holdings Inc. $HLT

U S Global Investors Inc. boosted its stake in shares of Hilton Worldwide Holdings Inc. (NYSE:HLT - Free Report) by 70.5% in the 4th quarter, according to its most recent filing with the Securities...

U S Global Investors Inc. Sells 1,312,671 Shares of Silvercorp Metals Inc. $SVM

U S Global Investors Inc. lowered its stake in shares of Silvercorp Metals Inc. (NYSEAMERICAN:SVM - Free Report) by 84.0% during the 4th quarter, according to its most recent Form 13F filing with the...

U S Global Investors Inc. Buys Shares of 100,000 McEwen Inc. $MUX

U S Global Investors Inc. purchased a new position in shares of McEwen Inc. (NYSE:MUX - Free Report) (TSE:MUX) during the fourth quarter, according to its most recent filing with the Securities and...

5,800 Shares in Marriott International, Inc. $MAR Acquired by U S Global Investors Inc.

U S Global Investors Inc. acquired a new stake in Marriott International, Inc. (NASDAQ:MAR - Free Report) in the 4th quarter, according to the company in its most recent Form 13F filing with the SEC...

U S Global Investors Inc. Purchases New Stake in Eldorado Gold Corporation $EGO

U S Global Investors Inc. acquired a new position in Eldorado Gold Corporation (NYSE:EGO - Free Report) (TSE:ELD) in the 4th quarter, according to the company in its most recent filing with the...

24,500 Shares in UBS Group AG $UBS Acquired by U S Global Investors Inc.

U S Global Investors Inc. bought a new position in shares of UBS Group AG (NYSE:UBS - Free Report) during the 4th quarter, according to its most recent disclosure with the Securities & Exchange...

U S Global Investors Inc. Sells 215,000 Shares of Alamos Gold Inc. $AGI

U S Global Investors Inc. reduced its stake in shares of Alamos Gold Inc. (NYSE:AGI - Free Report) (TSE:AGI) by 86.0% in the fourth quarter, according to the company in its most recent 13F filing...

U S Global Investors Inc. Takes $1.12 Million Position in Viking Holdings Ltd. $VIK

U S Global Investors Inc. acquired a new position in shares of Viking Holdings Ltd. (NYSE:VIK - Free Report) in the 4th quarter, according to its most recent disclosure with the SEC. The fund...

U.S. Global Investors, Inc. engages in the provision of investment advisory services. It operates through the Investment Management Services and Corporate Investments segments. The Investment Management Services segment offers a range of investment management products and services for individual and institutional investors. The Corporate Investments segment invests in its own accounts to add growth and value to its cash position. The company was founded in 1968 and is headquartered in San Antonio, TX.

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