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Westgold Resources has completed the divestment of its Reedy and Comet projects to Valiant Gold. Westgold announced in December 2025 its intention to demerge the Reedy and Comet projects. The demerger aligns with Westgold’s strategy to concentrate on its primary operations in the Murchison and Southern Goldfields regions. The Reedy and Comet projects encompass four former underground mines with recent production activities and a cumulative mineral resource totalling 15.6 million tonnes (mt) at a grade of 2.4 grams per tonne (g/t), amounting to 1.2 million ounces (moz) of gold. Valiant, which is seeking a listing on the Australian Securities Exchange…

The EV maker just revealed pricing details for its new R2 lineup. Rivian will first launch a $57,990 model, with plans to debut a $45,000 variant in late 2027.

Vaduz, Liechtenstein –12 March 2026: EtherMail, the Web3 email-as-a-wallet platform with over 2 million verified users, today announced the launch of moltmail, a purpose-built email and wallet infrastructure for AI agents. The platform enables any AI agent to create its own email address, send and receive messages, hold a crypto wallet, and interact with the internet independently — without requiring access to a human user’s personal email account. The launch arrives at a pivotal moment for the agentic internet. Moltbook, the social network exclusively for AI agents, crossed 1.6 million agent users within its first week, attracting global media coverage from…

For more than a decade, the cryptocurrency industry has promised to reinvent money. Permissionless. Trustless. Borderless. Immune to the recurring failures of traditional finance.Yet, commonly cited estimates of global ownership all languish below 10% — and the proportion actually using crypto for payments and other tangible uses is likely even less. After billions in venture funding, endless meme coins and nonstop media cycles, crypto remains a niche product held by a tiny fraction of the world’s population. The uncomfortable question is whether crypto has delivered anything indispensable to everyday people.It hasn’t.Built for speculators, not usersThe largest smart-contract network in the…

Concerned about an AI bubble? Sign up for The Daily Upside for smart and actionable market news, built for investors. One of the Newtonian laws of Big Oil physics is getting flipped on its head. Historically speaking, when oil prices rise, shares of oil majors tend to rise with them. But as oil prices spike amid the US-Israel conflict with Iran, shares of major oil firms have barely budged. Consider it a sign of the sheer disruptive scale of the Middle East war, and the unprecedented coordinated response it has sparked from the world’s energy leaders. Sign up for The…

Stock futures tumbled after hours on Wednesday, building on earlier losses for the S&P 500 and Dow Jones Industrial Average, as crude-oil prices pressed higher.

Presearch (https://presearch.com/), the privacy-centric, non-profiling engine, today announced that its Series II Node NFT Auction sold out, generating more than 8.5 million PRE in total proceeds, which is more than double the nearly 4 million PRE raised in the inaugural auction, marking the largest deflationary event in PRE’s history. The auctions have distributed 418 Node License NFTs, with every node clearing above its reserve price despite reserves being increased by 50% compared with the previous sale. The event also drew 127 unique bidders, doubling participation from the first node auction and signaling accelerating demand for infrastructure supporting the Presearch network.…

After retreating back to the $69,000 area during early U.S. morning hours Wednesday, bitcoin BTC$70,754.92 has quickly spiked to nearly $71,000.Other crypto assets, including ether (ETH), solana (SOL) and XRP, saw the same sharp moves higher.The gains appeared to come as crude oil quickly reversed most of its session’s large gains, dropping $3 per barrel in a matter of minutes. At press time, WTI crude futures for April were at $85, up 2% for the day.Crude’s drop also benefited stocks, with the Nasdaq moving from a small decline to a gain of 0.5% in early U.S. trade.Crypto-related shares were mixed,…

I spend a lot of time talking to retirees about their spending plans. Many of them proudly tell me that they’re spending far less than the 3%-4% initial withdrawal amounts that are often bandied about in the context of safe spending rates. They tell me they’ve been good savers, they’re frugal, they don’t need more. Underspending seems to be part of their identities. Those are all laudable things. But they make me think of the interplay between underspending and the potential for leftover amounts at the end of life. The fact that underspending tends to lead to big residual balances…

Americans are opting out of the Affordable Care Act, and health insurance companies are taking a financial hit.