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Trump Media & Technology Group Corp. engages in operating social media and in the technology business. Its brands include TRUTH Social, TMTG+, and TMTG News. It operates through the Media and Truth.Fi segments. The Media segment includes products and services such as advertisement through the Truth Social platform. The Truth.Fi segment relates to customized exchange-traded funds or exchange-traded products invested in America First principles, and bitcoin and similar cryptocurrencies or crypto-related securities. The company was founded on March 28, 2024 and is headquartered in Sarasota, FL.

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Trump Media & Technology Group is trending as investors and social media users fiercely debate the administration's military strategy in the Strait of Hormuz, with community discussion highlighting friction over requests for allied support following recent escalations. The conversation is heavily polarized, featuring widespread speculation on potential economic fallout and criticism regarding the lack of a clear long-term geopolitical plan.

NVIDIA Corp. engages in the design and manufacture of computer graphics processors, chipsets, and related multimedia software. It operates through the following segments: Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) and Compute & Networking. The Graphics segment includes GeForce GPUs for gaming and PCs, the GeForce NOW game streaming service and related infrastructure, Quadro and NVIDIA RTX GPUs for enterprise workstation graphics, virtual GPU, or vGPU, software for cloud-based visual and virtual computing, automotive platforms for infotainment systems, and Omniverse Enterprise software for building and operating metaverse and 3D internet applications. The Compute & Networking segment consists of Data Center accelerated computing platforms and end-to-end networking platforms including Quantum for InfiniBand and Spectrum for Ethernet, NVIDIA DRIVE automated-driving platform and automotive development agreements, Jetson robotics and other embedded platforms, NVIDIA AI Enterprise and other software, and DGX Cloud software and services. The company was founded by Jen Hsun Huang, Chris A. Malachowsky, and Curtis R. Priem in April 1993 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

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Nvidia is trending following a GTC keynote where CEO Jensen Huang projected over $1 trillion in AI infrastructure demand through 2027, signaling massive long-term growth for the company's Blackwell and Vera Rubin platforms. While the announcement fueled initial volatility and intense debate among investors over the stock's valuation and the reality of meeting such high revenue targets, the community remains divided between those viewing the pullback as a buying opportunity and others skeptical of the company's ability to sustain its premium market position.

Pyth Network is a decentralised oracle network designed to provide real-time financial market data to decentralised applications (dApps) across multiple blockchains. It allows developer to secure smart contracts with reliable, low-latency market data from institutional sources, and build apps with high-fidelity oracle feeds designed for mission-critical systems.

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Pyth Network is gaining significant traction as a critical infrastructure provider in the DeFi sector, driven by its recent integration of institutional-grade financial data and its unique position in supplying macroeconomic indicators to blockchain ecosystems. Community members are actively highlighting the project's institutional backing, revenue-sharing model through token buybacks, and its role as a core player in the emerging Real World Asset (RWA) narrative.

|The Artificial Superintelligence (ASI) Alliance is the world’s largest open-source initiative dedicated to decentralized Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). Formed in April 2024, the ASI Alliance unites SingularityNET, Fetch.ai, and Ocean Protocol, with CUDOS joining as a network member shortly after. The ASI Alliance was established through a community-approved tokenomic merger—combining $AGIX, $FET, and $OCEAN into a single token: $FET. This unified token underpins a collaborative framework designed to scale open-source AI and stand as the largest open-sourced, independent entity in AI research and development. The Alliance is committed to accelerating the advancement of decentralized Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) and, ultimately, Artificial Superintelligence (ASI). It provides a robust, open-source innovation stack, empowering developers, enterprises, and researchers globally to build ethical, scalable, and groundbreaking AI solutions. This ensures that advanced intelligence remains a shared, accessible resource, fostering innovation beyond centralized systems and promoting a future where AI benefits all.

Fetch.ai

Fetch.ai is trending as community members weigh the impact of the ASI merger and partnership integrations against a prolonged period of price volatility and FUD. While some investors are aggressively accumulating during the downturn, citing the project's long-term utility in the agentic AI sector, others remain skeptical, focusing on recent token supply dynamics and the broader underperformance of altcoins.

Electro Optic Systems Holdings Ltd. develops and produces products incorporating advanced electro-optic technologies for the aerospace market. It operates through the Space Systems and Defence Systems segments. The Space Systems segment is involved in ground products available to support the Australian and international space markets. The Defence Systems segment develops, manufactures, and markets advanced fire control, surveillance, and weapon systems to approved military customers. The company was founded by Benny Allan Greene in 1983 and is headquartered in Symonston, Australia.

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Electro Optic Systems is gaining significant community attention as it secures multiple defense contracts for its counter-drone and laser weapon technologies, with investors highlighting the company's expanding backlog and strong performance in comparative military trials. The ongoing global demand for advanced, cost-effective air defense systems is driving discussions around the firm's strategic growth, international partnerships, and potential for increased market presence.

Ripple is the catchall name for the cryptocurrency platform, the transactional protocol for which is actually XRP, in the same fashion as Ethereum is the name for the platform that facilitates trades in Ether. Like other cryptocurrencies, Ripple is built atop the idea of a distributed ledger network which requires various parties to participate in validating transactions, rather than any singular centralized authority. That facilitates transactions all over the world, and transfer fees are far cheaper than the likes of bitcoin. Unlike other cryptocurrencies, XRP transfers are effectively immediate, requiring no typical confirmation time.  Ripple was originally founded by a single company, Ripple Labs, and continues to be backed by it, rather than the larger network of developers that continue bitcoin’s development. It also doesn’t have a fluctuating amount of its currency in existence. Where bitcoin has a continually growing pool with an eventual maximum, and Ethereum theoretically has no limit, Ripple was created with all of its 100 billion XRP tokens right out of the gate. That number is maintained with no mining and most of the tokens are owned and held by Ripple Labs itself — around 60 billion at the latest count.  Even at the recently reduced value of around half a dollar per XRP, that means Ripple Labs is currently sitting on around $20 billion worth of the cryptocurrency (note: Ripple’s price crashed hard recently, and may be worth far less than $60 billion by time you read this). It holds 55 billion XRP in an escrow account, which allows it to sell up to a billion per month if it so chooses in order to fund new projects and acquisitions. Selling such an amount would likely have a drastic effect on the cryptocurrency’s value, and isn’t something Ripple Labs plans to do anytime soon.  In actuality, Ripple Labs is looking to leverage the technology behind XRP to allow for faster banking transactions around the world. While Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are built on the idea of separating financial transactions from the financial organizations of traditional currencies, Ripple is almost the opposite in every sense.  XRP by Ripple price can be found on this page alongside the market capitalization and additional stats.

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Ripple (XRP) is experiencing high volatility as investors debate the legitimacy of recent price movements, with sentiment split between optimism over potential institutional adoption and skepticism regarding recurring sell-offs. The community remains deeply divided, with many actively trading around short-term price fluctuations while others hold long-term positions, waiting for clarity on regulatory milestones and market decoupling from Bitcoin.

TMC the metals co., Inc. is a deep-sea minerals exploration company focused on the collection and processing of polymetallic nodules found on the seafloor in international waters of the Clarion Clipperton Zone in the Pacific Ocean (CCZ). These nodules contain high grades of four metals (nickel, copper, cobalt, manganese) which can be used as (i) feedstock for battery cathode precursors (nickel, cobalt and manganese sulfates, or intermediate nickel-copper-cobalt matte) for electric vehicles (EV) and renewable energy storage markets, (ii) copper cathode for EV wiring, energy transmission and other applications and (iii) manganese silicate for manganese alloy production required for steel production. The company was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada.

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TMC is trending as the community reacts to NOAA determining that the company's consolidated deep-sea mining application for the Clarion-Clipperton Zone is in substantial compliance, a regulatory milestone that paves the way for further review. Investors are actively discussing the implications of this expansion and the company's positioning alongside upcoming corporate developments, with many highlighting the stock as a critical play for domestic mineral security.

BioCryst Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is a biotechnology company. It engages in the provision of structure-guided drug design with the goal of developing oral small-molecule and protein therapeutics to target difficult-to-treat rare diseases. The company was founded by William M. Spencer III, Charles E. Bugg, and John A. Montgomery in 1986 and is headquartered in Durham, NC.

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BioCryst Pharmaceuticals is seeing intense market attention and a surge in trading volume driven by unconfirmed takeover rumors involving a large U.S.-based biopharmaceutical company. Investors are actively debating the potential for an M&A exit, comparing current valuations to historical biotech acquisition multiples while weighing the credibility of these reports against the company's established commercial growth.

Hedera is a decentralized public network where developers can build secure, fair applications with near real-time consensus. The platform is owned and governed by a council of global innovators including Avery Dennison, Boeing, Deutsche Telekom, DLA Piper, FIS (WorldPay), Google, IBM, LG Electronics, Magalu, Nomura, Swirlds, Tata Communications, University College London (UCL), Wipro, and Zain Group.   The Hedera Consensus Service (HCS) acts as a trust layer for any application or permissioned network and allows for the creation of an immutable and verifiable log of messages. Application messages are submitted to the Hedera network for consensus, given a trusted timestamp, and fairly ordered. Use HCS to track assets across a supply chain, create auditable logs of events in an advertising platform, or even use it as a decentralized ordering service.

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Hedera Hashgraph is seeing a surge in sentiment driven by its growing enterprise utility, specifically high-profile integrations like the collaboration with FedEx that highlights the network's potential for massive transaction volume. While the broader market remains volatile, the community is focused on the project's long-term scalability and the potential regulatory tailwinds from the Clarity Act, fueling ongoing debate between those accumulating at these levels and those frustrated by historical price dilution.

Oklo, Inc. engages in the development of fission reactors. It provides clean energy through the design and deployment of fast fission power plants. The company was founded by Jacob DeWitte and Caroline Cochran on July 3, 2013 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

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Oklo Inc. is currently facing intense volatility and downward pressure as investors closely monitor its pre-revenue status and the heavy insider selling that has tempered the enthusiasm from earlier retail rallies. The community remains deeply divided, with bulls pointing to the company's long-term potential as a critical power source for AI data centers and government-backed nuclear initiatives, while skeptics emphasize the significant regulatory hurdles, project timelines, and the lack of current earnings.

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<ul class="summary-bullets"><li>Truist said that Walmart ended 2025 on "a strong note," adding that the company’s Q4 U.S. comparative sales increased 4.6% and it also posted a slight acceleration in stacked transactions.</li><li>Given its track record of continuous share gains and an increasingly profitable business model that is also one of the biggest "real asset" plays in the market, Truist said that it remains a buyer of the company.&nbsp;</li><li>In its latest quarterly report, the retailer said that it expects revenue of $164 billion in the upcoming quarter, versus a street expectation of $172.8 billion, according to data from Fiscal.ai.</li></ul><p>Walmart Inc. (WMT) shares extended their decline in after-hours trading on Thursday, slipping 0.06% after ending the day 1.38% lower amid weak first-quarter (Q1) guidance.</p><p>In its latest quarterly report, the retailer said that it expects revenue of $164 billion in the upcoming quarter, versus a street expectation of $172.8 billion, according to data from Fiscal.ai. The company forecast adjusted earnings per share of $0.61, compared to expectations of $0.73.</p><p>Despite the lackluster outlook, Truist raised its price target on Walmart to $139 from $127 and kept a ‘Buy’ rating on the shares.</p><h2 class="st-heading-2">Analyst Rationale</h2><p>Truist said that Walmart ended 2025 on "a strong note," noting that the company’s fourth-quarter (Q4) U.S. comparative sales increased 4.6% and it also posted a slight acceleration in stacked transactions, the analyst told investors in a note, according to TheFly.</p><p>Given its track record of continuous share gains and an increasingly profitable business model that is also one of the biggest "real asset" plays in the market, Truist said that it remains a buyer of the company.</p><h2 class="st-heading-2">Earnings Snapshot</h2><p>Walmart posted Q4 revenues of $190.7 billion, a 4.9% growth in constant currency. Analysts expected the company to post $175.17 billion in revenues for the quarter.</p><p>The company said that its global eCommerce sales grew 24%, led by store-fulfilled pickup and delivery, and marketplace, while its global advertising business grew 37%.</p><p>“The pace of change in retail is accelerating. It’s exciting. And our financial results show that we’re not only embracing this change, we’re leading it. For our customers and members, the future is fast, convenient, and personalized,” said John Furner, President and CEO of Walmart.</p><p>Meanwhile, Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN) <a href="https://stocktwits.com/news-articles/markets/equity/amazon-dethrones-walmart-as-worlds-biggest-company-by-revenue/cZRjUrKR4wC">overtook</a> Walmart to become the world’s largest company by sales on Thursday, ending the retailer’s 13-year reign at the top in terms of revenue.</p><h2 class="st-heading-2">How Did Stocktwits Users React?</h2><p>On Stocktwits, retail sentiment around <a href="https://stocktwits.com/symbol/WMT">WMT shares</a> jumped from ‘bullish’ to ‘extremely bullish’ territory over the past 24 hours amid ‘extremely high’ message volumes.</p><p>Shares of WMT have gained more than 20% in the past year.</p><p><i>For updates and corrections, email newsroom[at]stocktwits[dot]com.</i></p>

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