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This is the No. 1 problem with Plug Power stock today

While industry forecasts call for major hydrogen fuel demand growth, the technology is still largely uncompetitive versus traditional fossil fuels, and even versus renewable sources like wind and solar. As Bloomberg’s research highlights, demand growth forecasts will be very sensitive to changes in government regulations and subsidies — two components that are critical in making hydrogen fuel economically viable.

A lack of economic viability has consistently reduced demand for Plug Power’s products over the decades. The company itself has often been reliant on large government subsidies to remain financially afloat. This is exactly what Wall Street analysts are worried about. Morgan Stanley’s analysts have been sounding the alarm since 2023. “We see significant risk around PLUG’s business model,” they wrote then. “On paper, PLUG’s strategy makes sense to us, but we have reduced confidence in the company’s ability to execute on that strategy barring a potential dilutive capital raise.”

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Morgan Stanley’s concerns were prescient. Since that time, Plug Power has nearly doubled its share count, massively diluting shareholders in an attempt to stay financially viable. Today, the company continues to post negative net incomes quarter after quarter.

The future is bright for hydrogen fuel. But Plug Power’s lack of profitability continues to concern analysts, and is something investors have to watch.

The company behind the Bored Ape Yacht Club non-fungible token (NFT) collection, Yuga Labs, is preparing to replace the current ApeCoin
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governance system with a new structure called ApeCo.

The company has proposed closing down the existing ApeCoin DAO, which was once central to the project but has since become too slow and distracted to be effective.

In an Ape Improvement Proposal dated June 5, Yuga’s CEO, Greg Solano, explained that while the DAO helped get things off the ground, it struggles to make progress.

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According to him, too much time and money have been invested in ideas that do not move the project forward in any meaningful way.

The suggested plan would fully shut down the DAO system. This means ending token-based voting, cancelling all earlier proposals, and removing working groups and elections. All DAO-owned assets, including tokens, rights, tools, and code, would be handed over to ApeCo, a new management group set up by Yuga Labs.

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Solano said ApeCo would take a more selective and goal-oriented approach. Instead of giving funding to a wide mix of projects, it would focus on fewer efforts that are more likely to help the ecosystem grow.

ApeCo will also support larger Yuga-led projects, such as ApeChain, the Bored Ape Yacht Club, and Otherside.

Meanwhile, the Infinite Node Foundation (NODE) announced on May 13 that it had acquired the intellectual property rights to the CryptoPunks NFT collection. What did the nonprofit group say? Read the full story.