World Cup bets drive prediction markets past $20B volume
The $20B World Cup print is five times the 2024 U.S. election cycle and validates Polymarket and Kalshi as the venues where sports and politics meet on-chain.
Country and city adoption — BTC as legal tender, sovereign Bitcoin reserves, and big-corp first-time crypto moves.
The $20B World Cup print is five times the 2024 U.S. election cycle and validates Polymarket and Kalshi as the venues where sports and politics meet on-chain.
An 18% intraday spike is a generational move for one of Asia's largest equity benchmarks, and the risk-on ripple into crypto and regional tech is what global investors will price next.
The gap between customer count and revenue shows how thin the unit economics still are for neobanks selling crypto at the retail layer.
By exposing tokenized-asset data through MCP, Realmint joins a small group of builders betting that AI agents, not retail dashboards, become the primary consumer of RWA market intelligence.
The sell crystallised a £39,984-per-coin loss and signals a wider pivot among treasury holders treating BTC as liquidity rather than a permanent reserve.
The designation escalates a decade-long standoff: Durov refused to hand over encryption keys in 2017, Telegram was banned in Russia until 2020, and Moscow is now using its terrorism list to retaliate.
The dilution machine is breaking. Two years of buy-buy-buy lifted treasury stocks; now shareholders are selling the equity because the math stopped working.
The holder count more than doubled month-over-month, with Robinhood's new chain capturing the largest share in under four weeks, signalling that tokenized equities are moving from niche product to…
The equity-crypto decoupling is the real story: bitcoin and ether shrugged off a $797B megacap tech wipeout and Korea's record two-day decline, with weekly softness in alts looking more like thin…
The GENIUS Act-compliant token lands on an L2 optimized for real-world payments, and gas abstraction lets users pay network fees directly in USAT.
Volume hit a record while revenue dropped 30% quarter-over-quarter, a split that reads as growing platform utility outpacing monetization, not shrinking demand.
The speed of the ramp, not the absolute number, is the signal: brand and distribution are starting to out-weigh network specs as the moat for new L1s and L2s.
The custody and admin backbone of US pension and wealth-manager money is going on-chain, the strongest single TradFi adoption signal since BlackRock's spot BTC ETF.
CoinCash's first MiCA license lands in the same week Budapest repeals a rule that had let intermediaries veto retail crypto trades, putting Hungary ahead on the EU's new framework.
The Hong Kong licensed venue's retail launch extends XRP's regulated reach beyond institutional books in the city, the kind of venue-level adoption that deepens liquidity and tightens spreads.
The bitcoin miner pivoting to AI compute closed its first day at a $2.8B valuation, the largest direct listing on Nasdaq since 2021, and gave creditors of the bankrupt lender a rare liquid path out.
Brian Smith of the Jito Foundation argues perps are the on-ramp for trillions of dollars of TradFi flow, and that Solana is losing the gateway race to Hyperliquid despite shipping the better…
New Canadian CEO Eric Richmond wants derivatives, DeFi and tokenized products on par with U.S. access. Canada needs a national digital-asset instrument, he says, or it falls behind.
The Dubai flagship joins a small list of flag-carrier airlines taking direct crypto at checkout, signaling continued UAE merchant adoption despite a slow global airline rollout.
The L2's deposit growth since launch has tracked its initial memecoin buzz, but DAUs and DEX volume are already cooling, raising the open question of whether the activity stick.