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- GridBeyond Lands 12 Million Euro Investment from Samsung Ventures (2026-03-18)
Samsung Ventures, the corporate venture capital branch of Samsung Electronics (KRX:005930), has joined the shareholder base of GridBeyond as part of a 12 million euro equity investment, backing the company’s expansion in intelligent energy management and distributed power systems.
The investment will support GridBeyond’s growth across key markets, including the UK, Ireland, the US, Japan and Australia, while accelerating development of its platform for optimizing distributed energy assets.
GridBeyond specializes in software that manages and coordinates energy resources such as renewable generation, battery storage and electricity demand in real time. Its platform is designed to help balance supply and demand across power grids, enabling services like energy trading, frequency response and capacity market participation.
GridBeyond executives said in a Tuesday (March 17) press release that Samsung’s experience in renewable energy, battery development and engineering will complement the company's technology platform.
“We are delighted to welcome Samsung as both a shareholder and collaboration partner, it is recognition that GridBeyond has developed a world leading integrated optimisation platform,” said Deputy CEO Richard O’Loughlin.
Founded in 2010, GridBeyond has positioned itself as a player in the transition toward more flexible and digitized energy systems. It works with utilities and industrial clients to manage energy use and integrate renewable sources more efficiently, while also owning and operating some clean energy assets such as solar and battery systems.
The company has expanded internationally in recent years, including leading the optimization of a large-scale battery energy storage system in California.
GridBeyond reported revenue of 46 million euros in 2024, up from 34.3 million euros in 2023. However, it posted a 7 million euro operating loss last year as it invested in expansion, compared with a 3.4 million euro loss in the prior year.
The latest funding builds on earlier capital raises, including a Series C round in 2023 that brought in just over 52 million euros to support its international expansion strategy.
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Securities Disclosure: I, Giann Liguid, hold no direct investment interest in any company mentioned in this article.
- Why Crypto Treasuries Are Shifting from “HODL” to Active Management (2026-03-18)
A new report shared with the Investing News Network by Keyrock, Safe and DLResearch analyzes how large crypto organizations are managing their digital wealth.
A study of 25 major protocols’ balance sheets, including Aave, the Ethereum Foundation, Lido and Uniswap, found that the vast majority of the recorded US$5.6 billion — 93 percent — is currently sitting idle without earning income.
As the sector professionalizes, a so-called “sophistication gap” has emerged between the tools available and the strategies currently deployed. The report’s author, Ben Harvey, argues that investors and stakeholders are recognizing that the way capital is structured, deployed and governed is more important than token accumulation.
The idle wealth problem: Why crypto treasuries are leaving millions on the table
In the report, Harvey explains that the median protocol allocates just 7 percent of its assets to income-generating positions, despite resembling mid-sized financial institutions in scale.
This lack of productivity is compounded by extreme concentration. Approximately 80 percent of aggregate treasury value is held in the protocol’s own native governance tokens. This creates a cyclical trap: balance sheets look healthy during bull markets, but collapse during downturns when the protocol is most in need of operational funding.
Harvey posits that annual income could increase to over US$84 million from US$6.6 million if funds were used to earn yield by employing advanced financial tools such as lending, staking and options.
So why are crypto treasuries leaving so much on the table?
According to the report, treasury leaders attribute it to “governance inertia,” or an avoidance of active management to prevent backlash from token holders — diversifying away from a native token often requires selling it, which can create downward price pressure and negative market signals.
However, the report also highlights several key benefits of covered calls, which Harvey describes as the “highest-leverage intervention available” for organizations that want to earn money without losing control of their tokens.
He points out that organizations can set very high strike prices, lowering the probability of forced selling, allowing them to collect immediate cash while keeping their long-term holdings intact.
He uses Uniswap as an example, calculating that if the protocol used covered calls on just 20 percent of its holdings, it could generate US$9.6 million in monthly income, a difference in annual yield of +11 percent.
Harvey notes that earning income through covered calls is much easier to explain to token holders than selling the token, making it a more attractive option for leadership teams facing governance pressure.
Another reason suggested is simply a conservative risk tolerance, often due to concerns over smart contract exploits or counterparty risks learned from earlier, more experimental phases of DeFi.
One example that comes to mind is the Yam Finance collapse in August 2020. In that instance, a simple bug in an unaudited smart contract rendered a US$400 million protocol ungovernable within 48 hours, serving as a permanent warning to treasury managers about the lethality of experimental code.
Bridging the sophistication gap
While concerns following 2020-era exploits remain, the report goes on to argue that the infrastructure for managing funds has undergone a massive institutional upgrade.
The report highlights Aave as a primary example of this maturity; the protocol has managed peak values exceeding US$20 billion without a single loss to smart contract exploits since its 2020 inception.
Specifically, the emergence of tokenized real-world assets (RWAs), such as on-chain US treasuries and hard assets like gold, has been a game changer. RWAs allow protocols to earn virtually risk-free traditional yield without venturing into the complex and often recursive yield loops that defined early DeFi.
By moving idle capital into these safe-haven assets, protocols can build a stablecoin buffer that protects their operations even when their native token is crashing.
Additionally, new protocol architectures like Morpho V2, which allows treasuries to compartmentalize exposure into specific lending pools that match their risk appetite, have ushered in a new era of risk isolation. Standards like ERC-4626 have also reduced integration friction, allowing treasuries to interact with multiple protocols via secure interfaces.
With the industry moving away from experimental code toward tried-and-tested tools that provide the security treasury managers have long craved, the sophistication gap is beginning to close. This shift has been bolstered by the increased regulatory certainty provided by the GENIUS Act and the forthcoming CLARITY Act.
Looking ahead: A regime shift
The professionalization of treasury management is expected to become a major differentiator for token valuations. Investors are beginning to critically assess how protocols manage their finances, favoring those that can fund development through a sustainable funding model that doesn't rely on selling tokens into a bear market.
The report identifies a small cohort of winners already successfully navigating this shift:
- Aave, for reducing native token concentration to 41 percent and maintaining a 33 percent stablecoin buffer.
- Gnosis, for its active diversification and strategic use of Gnosis Pay to drive ecosystem utility.
- Lido, for successfully managing massive liquid staking operations while maintaining high security standards.
In the coming year, idle capital will likely be viewed as a sign of mismanagement. As the “HODL” era fades, the protocols that master capital efficiency will be the ones that survive the next market cycle.
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Securities Disclosure: I, Meagen Seatter, hold no direct investment interest in any company mentioned in this article.
- Adam Rozencwajg: Gold, Silver vs. Energy — Where I'm Focusing Now (2026-03-17)
Adam Rozencwajg, managing partner at Goehring & Rozencwajg, weighs in on how ongoing tensions in the Middle East are impacting the oil market, noting that on a barrels-per-day basis the Iran war is the largest shock the sector has ever dealt with.
However, in his view, there's still time for those who don't have exposure to get in.
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Securities Disclosure: I, Charlotte McLeod, hold no direct investment interest in any company mentioned in this article.
- Corazon Mining Gears Up for Maiden Diamond Drilling at Two Pools Project (2026-03-17)
Corazon Mining (ASX:CZN) is preparing to launch its first diamond drilling program at the Two Pools gold project in Western Australia, marking a key step as the company advances exploration at the asset.
In an interview with the Investing News Network, Managing Director Simon Coyle said that Corazon is "extremely, completely funded for drilling" as the company enters a period of increased exploration activity. Corazon Mining plans to mobilize a diamond drill rig to the Two Pools project within the next couple of weeks, which will include four diamond holes averaging about 200 meters per hole.
“There is one hole to the northwest, which we're putting down to around 400 meters to really test that, a down-punch extension of the main mineralized area. It's exciting times ahead for us ... there's going to be some really good upside in terms of who we are as a company moving forward,” he said.
Following the diamond drilling program, Corazon plans to conduct a larger reverse-circulation (RC) campaign, which is "probably a 3,000 meter RC package" in April.
“So drilling starts, let's say, (in) two weeks. Those first few holes are going right into the middle of the of the known area. And that's all about structure and understanding ... then we'll move into a 3,000 meter RC package, which will happen at the back end of April. So between now and for the remainder of this year, we'll be drilling at Two Pools."
Watch the full interview with Corazon Mining Managing Director Simon Coyle above.
- HyProMag USA Boosts US Rare Earth Magnet Recycling Efforts (2026-03-17)
CoTec Holdings (TSXV:CTH,OTCQB:CTHCF) and Mkango Resources (TSXV:MKA,AIM:MKA,OTCPL:MKNGF) have achieved a significant milestone in their US operations through their subsidiary HyProMag USA.
On March 13, HyProMag USA commissioned an Inserma rare earth magnet pre-processing system at Intelligent Lifecycle Solutions' facility in Williston, South Carolina.
The newly commissioned system at the Williston site is designed to recover neodymium-iron-boron (NdFeB) magnets from end-of-life hard disk drives. It separates the magnet assemblies within three seconds per drive, allowing the facility to handle over 60,000 hard drives per week.
HyProMag USA's operations in Williston are part of its larger "hub-and-spoke" model. This approach involves recovering and pre-processing magnet-bearing materials at regional facilities before supplying them to a planned recycling and manufacturing hub in Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas.
The company aims to leverage this model to build a scalable and resilient US rare earth recycling ecosystem and supply chain, with the goal of producing 10 percent of the US domestic supply for rare earth magnets within five years.
Expansion of the US supply chain
This initiative aligns with broader efforts to reduce reliance on imported rare earth minerals, which are vital for national security and economic competitiveness. In line with this, HyProMag USA was selected by the US Department of State as a Minerals Security Partnership project.
The commissioning event attracted attention from federal and state leaders, highlighting the importance of domestic capabilities in critical materials and advanced manufacturing. Local and regional leaders, including Barnwell County Council Chairman Freddie Houston and SouthernCarolina Alliance President Danny Black, also expressed their support for the project.
Julian Treger, CEO of CoTec Holdings, underscored the importance of partnerships and community support in establishing a new domestic platform for rare earth magnet recycling and manufacturing. He highlighted that collaborations, such as the one with ILS, are essential for building the necessary supply chains and operational capabilities to support large-scale magnet production.
Global critical minerals market trends
In the broader market, the critical metals sector is witnessing significant developments as supply chain concerns continue. Tungsten has experienced a massive price rally, outpacing gold and copper. This surge is attributed to China's export controls on tungsten products, which have driven manufacturers to secure alternative supply sources. The metal's key applications in defense and industrial manufacturing make it indispensable amid growing geopolitical tensions.
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