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.
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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.
OFAC's designation of Persian Gulf Marine Insurance and HormuzSafe puts every foreign shipper paying in BTC on the wrong side of US secondary-sanctions exposure, in a chokepoint already pricing…
The $1.17B put is now larger than every call on the board, after bullish $70K and $72K strikes were largely wiped out in Friday's $10B expiry, and August's historical -7.51% median hasn't helped.
When Wintermute's first-half OTC book flipped from retail-led to institution-led, broad altcoin beta broke. The trade has moved from screen to OTC, and the tape shows it.
The protocol fix is live and verifiable, but ZEC still trades below the $500 area Ironwood was supposed to put back on the map, leaving the supply repair in technical hands and the price repair in…
The BoJ's July hold leaves real yen yields deeply negative, and once Tokyo's verbal intervention stops jawboning the dollar lower, the unwind of yen-funded crypto carry trades becomes the next tail…
The monthly picture still looks strong, with the CoinDesk 20 up 8.7% in July, but the final-session price action is the opposite story: hawkish Fed comments, Middle East tensions, and a $60K put…
MiCA unlocks the bloc for Ripple's institutional products, but Fed Chair Warsh's reminder that bond markets are doing the Fed's job is keeping risk assets, including XRP, pinned near $1.10.
The $160 price target on Outperform hinges on Robinhood expanding beyond spot trading into tokenized assets and event contracts, where volume margins are wider.
The poll ties Trump's crypto push to voter pain on affordability, framing it as personal enrichment rather than policy, which keeps the political-risk spotlight on presidential crypto ties.
Eleven years in, Ethereum settles more dollars than ever but the base chain barely captures any of it: $330K in daily revenue against $148.8B in hosted stablecoins is the gap the next decade has to…
The 149,000 BTC contracts and 435,000 ETH contracts clearing today carry a combined notional near $10.5B, with both assets showing call-heavy positioning that signals traders are paying up for…
Bitcoin beat both the average and median Top 100 altcoin returns in July, but the dominance chart still anchors the broader picture despite headline-driven altcoin winners.
The state is asking for triple Kalshi's gains plus $100K per unauthorized wager offer. Kalshi just scored a federal win in Minnesota, but the New York playbook is civil enforcement at scale.
Open USD launches day-one on Ethereum with 140+ partners including BlackRock, Visa, Mastercard, Stripe and BNY, routing all reserve yield back to the issuers that grow it.
The amended filing formalizes executive compensation ahead of a planned Nasdaq listing under XRPN, anchoring a $1B treasury plan that would absorb roughly 0.8% of XRP's circulating supply.
The proposed bureau would have subpoena power and a Senate-confirmed director; the $620M Trump family crypto take gives Democrats a concrete peg to hang it on.
Two crypto-treasury firms are liquidating ETH and BTC at a loss to chase AI data-center capex, a signal that the public-company playbook now bleeds crypto to fund compute.
A clean sector split shaped CoinGecko's top-100 between 30 Jul and 31 Jul at 09:00 UTC: DEX-linked tokens climbed while…
The $38M theft from a single compromised wallet makes this the largest hardware-wallet supply-chain attack on record, with Coldcard pointing users straight at a firmware load-bearing weakness.