DENVER, Colo., Dec 11, 2025 (247marketnews.com)- Markets opened today with a charged blend of defense-tech restructuring, supply-chain innovation, crypto-market liberalization, and strategic repositioning across industrial and energy names.
Xeriant (OTCQB:XERI) Elevating with Blaine Holt as Architect of a Next-Generation Tech Ecosystem
Xeriant (XERI) is front and center after taking two major organizational steps that further embed Brig. Gen. (Ret.) Blaine D. Holt into its long-term strategic direction.
- Holt Takes Broader Strategic Mandate
Holt, previously Xeriant’s senior aerospace and defense advisor, will now spearhead efforts to assemble and evaluate a pipeline of technologies in AI, quantum computing, and data science, targeting acquisition, licensing, and partnership opportunities. The company is positioning him as a talent aggregator as much as a technology scout, tasked with building a collaborative hub for next-generation innovation.
CEO, Keith Duffy, emphasized Holt’s cross-domain leadership background and relationship-building track record as central to Xeriant’s push toward a more integrated portfolio strategy.
- Holt Appointed President of Factor X Research Group
Xeriant followed with a second announcement naming Holt president of Factor X, its advanced research and innovation division modeled in spirit after Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works. Factor X aims to solve the longstanding “innovation gap” between scientific discovery and scalable deployment, bridging TRL 1–9 across fields ranging from nanomaterials (including graphene) to AI-driven systems.
The division’s mission is to enable integrated solutions across sectors such as aerospace, construction materials, defense systems, and critical infrastructure, an approach consistent with Xeriant’s expanded editorial message that long-term national security and industrial competitiveness hinge on ecosystems, not isolated breakthroughs.
Holt’s experience, spanning NATO, aerospace turnarounds, AI-driven supply chain analytics, and large-scale industrial initiatives, positions him as a strategic engine for this transition.
For investors, Xeriant’s message is clear: the company is attempting to evolve from a tech evaluator to a tech integrator capable of generating multi-sector commercial outcomes.
SMX (NASDAQ:SMX) Gains Industry Attention for Breakthrough in Recycling Traceability
SMX (SMX) made waves within the circular-economy and industrial traceability ecosystem after the company’s technology was highlighted within NAFRA’s public-facing discussions, an encouraging indication that compliance-shaping organizations are taking its platform seriously.
SMX recently demonstrated 99%–100% accuracy in high-speed identification, including carbon-black plastics that near-infrared systems typically fail to classify. For recyclers who often must dispose of flame-retardant plastics due to identification uncertainty, this represents a potential structural shift:
- Materials become certifiable, enabling re-entry into higher-value markets.
- Traceability becomes embedded at the molecular level, enabling downstream certainty without adding infrastructure.
- Circularity transitions from compliance cost to value engine.
NAFRA’s spotlight signals growing institutional appetite for technology that can support both regulatory demands and commercial recovery. For SMX, the recognition could catalyze broader adoption as manufacturers, recyclers, and compliance bodies seek verifiable identity systems across plastics and beyond.
Gemini (NASDAQ:GEMI) Secures U.S. License to Operate Prediction Markets
Crypto markets stirred early as Gemini (GEMI) announced that its affiliate, Gemini Titan, has received a Designated Contract Market (DCM) license from the CFTC, ending a five-year application process and marking a significant regulatory milestone.
The license unlocks Gemini’s ability to offer U.S.-regulated prediction markets, allowing users to trade binary event contracts directly on future outcomes (“Will 1 bitcoin end the year above $200k?”).
Key developments include:
- U.S. customers will soon be able to trade event contracts via Gemini’s web interface, with mobile app integration on the way.
- Gemini Titan plans to explore crypto futures, options, and perpetual contracts for U.S. users—an offering traditionally limited to offshore venues.
- Leadership framed the license as a turning point in U.S. crypto policy under the current administration, highlighting a pro-innovation regulatory shift.
The move positions GEMI as one of the few U.S.-regulated platforms capable of hosting prediction markets, a sector many analysts view as a future counterpart to traditional financial markets.
Black Titan (NASDAQ:BTTC) Launches DAT+ Strategy, Begins with Utility-Driven Digital Asset Framework
Black Titan (BTTC) introduced its Digital Asset Treasury Plus (DAT+) framework, a multi-layered strategic model for evaluating digital assets through utility, governance, liquidity, risk, and strategic alignment.
Pillar 1: Active Utility Deployment & Cash Flow Potential
The first release emphasizes a “utility-first” approach, assessing digital assets based on:
- Network service enablement
- Fee-based protocol participation
- On-chain operations such as staking
- Requirements for specialized product functionality
BTTC is signaling a departure from passive corporate holdings toward active, economically linked participation in digital ecosystems. Additional pillars covering risk management, earnings integration, partnerships, and liquidity standards will follow.
For investors tracking institutional digital-asset adoption, DAT+ introduces a more structured, operationally relevant methodology that could attract broader market attention.
Bimergen Energy (OTCQB:BESS) Prepares for NYSE American Uplisting and Concurrent Offering
Bimergen Energy (BESS) announced approval to uplist to the NYSE American, with trading expected to begin under the ticker BESS on or about December 18, 2025. The uplisting coincides with a planned concurrent offering, details of which will be released via SEC filings.
The move marks a key inflection point for the utility-scale battery energy storage developer, signaling:
- Greater visibility and institutional access
- Increased liquidity
- Strategic momentum as grid reliability and renewable integration investments accelerate nationwide
Bimergen will continue trading on the OTCQB until uplisting becomes effective.
Cemtrex (NASDAQ:CETX) Reaffirms Profitability Focus, Nears Closing of Invocon Acquisition
Cemtrex (CETX) issued a broad corporate update underscoring its multi-year transformation toward margin expansion, disciplined capital allocation, and portfolio strengthening.
Key developments:
- Invocon acquisition nearing completion—expected to enhance aerospace/defense engineering capabilities and be accretive in FY 2026.
- Company declines prior robotics deal after due diligence, reinforcing disciplined assessment of return thresholds.
- New LOI for a Tennessee-based industrial services acquisition to expand its AIS segment footprint, targeting a Q1 CY 2026 closing.
- AIS continues stable performance with recurring demand;
- Vicon begins shipping its NEXT product line, supporting its longer-term shift toward AI-enabled security solutions.
Management reiterated a strategic focus on scalable earnings, recurring revenue, and continued M&A aligned with margin expansion.
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About Xeriant, Inc.
Xeriant, Inc. is focused on identifying, developing, and commercializing breakthrough technologies—particularly advanced materials—that can be deployed across a wide range of industrial markets. The company partners with, and selectively acquires interests in, innovators whose capabilities strengthen its mission of advancing next-generation solutions.
Xeriant’s materials portfolio is marketed under the DUREVER
brand and includes NEXBOARD, a patent-pending, eco-friendly composite panel engineered from recycled plastic and fiber waste. Designed as a high-performance alternative to conventional building products such as drywall, plywood, OSB, MDF, and MgO board, NEXBOARD reflects Xeriant’s commitment to durable, sustainable construction technologies.
For more information, please go to www.xeriant.com
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