France Tops 2026 World Cup Odds on Prediction Markets at 18.5%
The headline is volume, not the favourite: $2.54B traded before a ball is kicked, with $58M concentrated on France at 18.5% and Spain and Argentina trailing.
Country and city adoption — BTC as legal tender, sovereign Bitcoin reserves, and big-corp first-time crypto moves.
The headline is volume, not the favourite: $2.54B traded before a ball is kicked, with $58M concentrated on France at 18.5% and Spain and Argentina trailing.
The exchange argues the CFTC's decade-first nod to onshore perpetual contracts undercuts its own dominance in regulated US crypto derivatives — a turf fight with structural consequences for how…
The shutdown is small in dollar terms — aUSDT's $1.27M cap is a rounding error against USDT — but it continues Tether's pattern of pruning peripheral stablecoins to concentrate on its core dollar…
A single $7.46M position on a group-stage match is one of the largest individual sports-betting wagers the platform has hosted this cycle, with $2.71M in potential profit.
Armstrong's read attributes the pullback to AI rotation, stablecoin regulatory tailwinds, and cooling inflation — not structural demand erosion — and he's still long into 2030.
The call puts sovereign stablecoin issuance and on-chain equity on the same policy agenda — a framework that would let any country plug its capital markets directly into global crypto liquidity.
With the stablecoin market at $320B and projected to hit $4T by 2030, Fidelity and State Street are racing to capture the reserve-management mandate the GENIUS Act just created.
The levy doesn't touch peer-to-peer transfers directly — but it taxes buying, holding, and storing digital assets alike, and a16z's Miles Jennings warns it could drive builders out of the state.
The move would unwind a long-standing sanctions tool and signals a potential shift in US-Iran relations with broad implications for oil markets and regional geopolitics.
The $90 trillion annual perps market has been entirely offshore and unregulated until now — Kalshi's CFTC-regulated launch gives US traders legal protections and federal oversight for the first time.
The $6M seed brings together Circle, Coinbase, and 1kx behind a platform betting that verifiable human attention becomes the scarcest commodity in an AI-flooded content economy.
Plasma announced on X that Plasma One, the network's consumer mobile app, is now live on iOS. Users can download the…
Abdulla Kanoo, an heir to Bahrain's 135-year-old Kanoo business dynasty, is building blockchain-based settlement…
Australia's High Court ruled unanimously 7-0 on Wednesday that Web3 Ventures Pty Ltd, operating as Block Earner, needed…
The U.S. Senate and House have reached a bipartisan, bicameral deal on the "21st Century ROAD to Housing Act," a…
Fairshake, the crypto industry's flagship super PAC, scored its most expensive primary win of the 2026 cycle on Tuesday…
A Polymarket user identified as @mintblade turned a concentrated prediction-market strategy into $9.24 million in a…
Solstice CMO Ryan Day argues that crypto's credibility problem on yield comes from compressing risk into a single APY…
Coinbase unveiled its latest System Update, mapping out a push to launch tokenized stocks for non-US users next month…
SpaceX debuted on public markets in June 2026 and has climbed roughly 50% from its opening price, a surge that mirrors…