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With all the latest news about the trade war, some obvious issues that could affect the market and all of us who are still in the market are not being noticed. For example, take those two facts widely reported in the  news , but made no splash: US has fallen hopelessly behind China in development of viable 5G technology because of inability to resolve legacy bandwidth use. Losing 5G edge is not acceptable as it will be the base of the next generation of internet consumer products such as IoT, driverless cars and everything else. Get ready for this issue to become central for tech stocks. US Department of Defense issued a  paper  of 5G on 3 April . In a nutshell, US and China have two competing standards (mmWave for US, sub-6 for China). The conclusion of the DoD is that US system is not viable, and US will have to start from scratch. The conclusion is unambiguous: “ The Defense Innovation Board bases its recommendations on the assumption that mmWave fund...

Abstract The AVA Hedging Coin is a hybrid ERC-20 protocol that takes advantage of both distributed and centralized features of existing stable coin solutions and explicitly addresses the known drawbacks including scalability, trust and run issues. The AVA has a built in solution to the insidious problem of blockchain scalability. The scalability comes from a transparent choice of either a fully blockchain-based solution, if so desired, or outsourcing some or most of the work off blockchain with an audit trail — a concept similar in spirit to the Lightning network. The AVA protocol is blockchain agnostic, with initial development on Ethereum. At its core, AVA creates a distributed intelligent trading system based on blockchain technology. It implements a novel concept of self-executing market order and auction-based order matching. AVA trading technology adopts and rethinks best ideas in finance in service of hedging your exposure in volatile conditions of crypto-markets. The exis...