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The New Drone Boom In America, The Department Of Defense Invests In Rare Earths, And The New Solana King Of Wall Street

The New Drone Boom In America, The Department Of Defense Invests In Rare Earths, And The New Solana King Of Wall Street

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July 12, 2025

The Drone Business In America Is About To Boom

The Pentagon issued a new memo signed by United States Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth titled Unleashing U.S. Military Drone Dominance that is bringing sweeping changes to the federal government’s plan for accelerating drone innovation and purchasing drones for military purposes. The new memo is largely focused on prioritizing purchasing drones that are made within the USA.

The U.S. Department of Defense Is Investing In a Publicly Traded Rare Earth Company

MP Materials (NYSE: MP) landed a $400 million strategic investment from the United States Department of Defense that will give them an equity stake of up to 15% of the entire company. This is the first time in American history that the United States Department of Defense has ever taken an equity position in a publicly traded rare earth company, highlighting the strategic importance of securing rare earth supply.

DeFi Development Corp Becomes Largest Solana Holder On Wall Street

DeFi Development Corp (NASDAQ: DFDV) acquired an additional 153,225 Solana tokens to hold directly as an asset, bringing their total holdings to 846,630 Solana tokens and positioning them as the largest publicly traded holder of the popular cryptocurrency.

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The Sprint

Sharplink Gaming (NASDAQ: SBET) purchased 10,000 Ethereum tokens directly from the Ethereum Foundation in a first-of-its-kind transaction.
BTQ Technologies (CBOE: BTQ) announced a new $40 million equity financing round to accelerate the development of their technology aimed at securing digital assets from new threats caused by quantum computing.
Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) officially spun out RealSense as an independent robotics company, raising $50 million in a new financing round.
Varda Space raised $187 million in a new Series C financing round to advance their technology of leveraging microgravity in space to develop new types of drugs and therapeutics.
Harmonic AI, an artificial intelligence company focused on a developing a model for complex mathematical reasoning, raised $100 million in a new Series B financing round.

The Markets This Week

+612.7% | ProKidney Corp.

+114.6% | Surf Air Mobility

+110.0% | Volatus Aerospace

+109.7% | Soluna Holdings

+101.3% | Gamesquare Holdings

+80.5% | BTCS Inc.

+68.7% | Upexi

+54.3% | Northern Dynasty Minerals

+41.7% | MP Materials

Top Trends This Week

+90.3% | Chamath Palihapitiya

+38.9% | Drone Stocks

+20.2% | Meme Coins

+18.2% | Rare Earth Elements

+15.4% | a16z

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