Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s unannounced marriage ceremony has already generated greater than $4 million in buying and selling quantity on prediction platform Kalshi, with bettors wagering on the venue, the date, and even the bridesmaids. According to Kalshi, leisure buying and selling grew from $43 million in 2024 to over $300 million in 2025….
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong responded to criticism over the firm’s promotion of high-risk merchandise to younger and financially weak customers. He known as for accountable product design that doesn’t prohibit grownup selection. Zcash founder Zooko publicly criticized Coinbase for selling sports activities betting and Bitcoin (BTC) worth prediction to inexperienced customers. Armstrong acknowledged the stress,…
Bettors on Polymarket and Kalshi are favoring France as the almost certainly winner of the 2026 FIFA World Cup, edging out Argentina in each regulated and decentralized prediction markets. On Polymarket, France leads the winner market at 23% chance, with Argentina shut behind at 22%. Spain sits third at 11%, England fourth at 10%, and…
Peter Schiff warned that a MicroStrategy collapse would injury Bitcoin excess of the FTX fallout. The veteran gold advocate argued that Michael Saylor may find yourself remembered as a greater villain than Sam Bankman-Fried. Schiff framed Strategy as a way more consequential check case than FTX. Strategy’s Fall Could Dwarf the FTX Collapse Schiff made…
Kalshi and ADI Predictstreet have introduced a strategic partnership to broaden prediction markets globally, with co-branded placements throughout the FIFA World Cup 2026™ knockout stage and infrastructure improvement focusing on worldwide markets past the event. The deal connects Kalshi with ADI Predictstreet, the event’s official FIFA prediction market companion. Per Bank of America, Kalshi holds…
Ripple CTO Emeritus David Schwartz has settled a renewed debate over XRP (XRP) origins, confirming {that a} precursor cost community idea predated Bitcoin (BTC) by 5 years, however that XRP itself didn’t. Schwartz responded on X after a social submit claimed XRP predated Bitcoin by many years. The submit referred to as XRP the oldest…
The crypto ecosystem rushed to assist Venezuela after the devastating earthquakes of June 24. Humanitarian organizations, exchanges, and group campaigns activated channels to allow cryptocurrency donations. The pace of the crypto business is essential to accelerating the arrival of funds to probably the most affected areas. Crypto is Critical During Humanitarian Emergencies A donation in…
Jeremy Grantham, the GMO co-founder who known as each the 2000 dot-com crash and the 2008 housing collapse, branded Bitcoin (BTC) “a ineffective, speculative mechanism” and predicted it might dwindle over the following few a long time. The veteran strategist constructed his critique round three failures he sees in crypto. Bitcoin pays no yield, holds…
South Korea’s inventory market index, the KOSPI, triggered its second circuit breaker in a single week amid the AI chip commerce, rattling world markets. Friday’s 8.19% intraday plunge compelled one other 20-minute halt and dragged Wall Street, Tokyo, and Tokyo-listed SoftBank sharply decrease. The cascade is now the clearest signal that AI chip publicity has…
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong stated the corporate lower its AI spending practically in half whereas token utilization grew exponentially, outlining an infrastructure playbook he believes any agency can use to scale AI adoption with out treating price as a ceiling. Armstrong additionally supplied a sharp reframe of the present Bitcoin (BTC) market cycle AI Routing,…