Crypto Prediction Markets Jump 54% as World Cup 2026
Kalshi alone holds $1.2B of the total, a 91.9% monthly jump, as the FIFA tournament pulls retail and event-driven flow into a category still finding its legs.
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Kalshi alone holds $1.2B of the total, a 91.9% monthly jump, as the FIFA tournament pulls retail and event-driven flow into a category still finding its legs.
The call leans on "permanent holders" arriving in size, with BTC at $111K and ETH near $2,300 framing the setup as a re-entry point rather than a top.
The former CEO's public criticism lands as Europe's unified crypto regime nears full effect, and exchanges without MiCA passports lose access to the bloc's institutional liquidity.
The headline figure is the unrealized loss, but the structural cost is what a wider STRC discount does to the equity-at-premium flywheel that funded every prior BTC buy.
The preferred is no longer trading as a near-$100 funding instrument, it is being priced like stressed junior credit, and the mNAV premium that once let Saylor sell stock to buy Bitcoin has gone…
Backed by BlackRock and Coinbase, Securitize lands on Wall Street as Standard Chartered projects tokenized assets will hit $2.7T by 2030.
The sign-up bonuses are the surface play. The real prize is a regulated path to keep serving Europe's retail market after July 1, when unlicensed venues must wind down.
The Binance founder frames the drawdown as multi-causal rather than structural, but his long-term bid depends on the same regulatory clarity every other CEO in the space is lobbying for.
The average IBIT holder is now deeper underwater than at any point since launch, and the entry-timing damage is concentrated in the same retail cohort the product was designed to onboard.
Brad Garlinghouse called Strategy's preferred-share machine 'financial engineering,' pointing to STRC's slide to a record low as bitcoin slipped under $59,000 and even XRP's own CEO turned bearish on…
The fund's expansion into AI, robotics and energy is the headline, but its conviction in core digital-asset positions like Hyperliquid, Plasma and Sky shows crypto is still the anchor.
Yi He's remarks signal Binance is playing a long game in the EU, betting that crypto platforms will eventually outpace traditional banks as financial gatekeepers.
The speed gain is real, but Stretch now trades at $80.84, below its $100 par value, raising questions about whether the product's financing mechanics can hold up long-term.
The world's largest exchange by volume won't be able to onboard new EU users from July 1, and existing customers in Poland, Italy, Spain and France have been told to withdraw their funds.
The ex-dividend date is mostly noise at under 0.7% of share price; the monthly rate reset, with effective yield already near 15%, is where investors are looking for signal on Strategy's capital stack.
Song's exit from the ROSE ecosystem she founded is the part crypto investors will price first; her remit at MSL gives Meta a credible name in the alignment and security conversation.
The firm's first accumulation since October 2025 reads as a quiet institutional re-entry, and the eight-month gap makes the timing signal more interesting than the dollar size.
With no MiCA license lined up by July 1, Binance is freezing new EU signups and tightening services across the bloc, a setback that hands share to compliant rivals in Europe's largest retail market.
Nearly $30B is tokenized, yet only $2.47B sits inside DeFi, and the share of users chasing Pokemon and baseball cards is climbing fast.
The 5,000 ETH inflow is small against Sharplink's 876,285-coin stash, but the timing crystallises the bet: keep buying while the average cost sits more than 2x above spot.