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Rap superstar Drake has placed a $1.5 million bet in USDT on Argentina to beat Spain in Sunday’s FIFA World Cup final, a wager that could pay out roughly $5.175 million if Lionel Messi’s team wins in regulation or extra time.
Key Takeaways
Drake bet $1.5 million in USDT on Argentina at +245

Two prediction market platforms are pricing the same outcome for Sunday’s World Cup final, with Polymarket and Kalshi bettors both putting Spain ahead of Argentina as the teams prepare to meet at Metlife Stadium in New Jersey.
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Polymarket’s

Prop trading has exploded over the past few years, especially among traders looking for a way to scale beyond a small personal account. Crypto was always going to move in the same direction. Volatility creates opportunity, but it also creates a problem: most retail traders simply do not have

Traditional wealth management is constrained by slow, expensive, siloed legacy settlement layers that rely on redundant manual compliance checks. Abdul Rafay Gadit discusses how purpose-built Layer 1 blockchain architecture resolves these systemic inefficiencies.
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Self-custodial trading platform Sedona has partnered with Fhenix to integrate confidential fully homomorphic encryption infrastructure into its system.
Key Takeaways
Sedona partnered with Fhenix on July 15 to integrate default cryptographic encryption into its system.
The FHE shift

SBI Holdings has acquired a majority stake in Singapore-based crypto exchange Coinhako after securing regulatory approval. The deal strengthens the Japanese financial group’s push into digital assets, stablecoins and tokenized markets across Asia.
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SBI acquired

Dmitry Dubynin, CEO of the National Payment Card System (NSPK), stressed that cards issued by Visa and Mastercard “don’t provide any value,” as their operations are currently supported by the national system. Visa and Mastercard exited the Russian market in March 2022.
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Mir cards

Ripple has committed $250,000 in RLUSD-funded grants to 25 veteran- and military spouse-owned businesses through a collaboration with Hire Heroes USA.
Key Takeaways
Ripple committed $250,000 to 25 veteran- and military spouse-owned businesses selected by Hire Heroes USA.
Each recipient

T. Rowe Price, which manages $1.89 trillion in client assets, has launched TKNZ, an actively managed multi-token spot exchange-traded fund (ETF) offering exposure to bitcoin, ether, XRP, and other leading cryptocurrencies.
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T. Rowe Price, which manages $1.89 trillion in client assets

Underdog has filed the first seven sports event-contract templates for UDX, the federally regulated exchange it acquired in March. The filings target an initial listing no later than July 17, moving Underdog closer to controlling its own contracts rather than relying exclusively on outside

Nigerian President Bola Tinubu has signed an executive order on virtual assets to address a fragmented regulatory landscape and protect citizens from fraud.
Addressing Regulatory Gaps
Nigerian President Bola Tinubu has signed an executive order aimed at regulating virtual assets and cracking

Bitcoin fell for a second straight day, dropping 1.4% to trade just under $63,600. It hit a session low of $62,732 early Friday, trimming its market cap and dragging the aggregate crypto market capitalization down 1.8% to $2.26 trillion.
Key Takeaways
Bitcoin fell 1.4% below $63,600 on July 17, h

Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino says USDT’s user base is growing by more than 30 million wallets per quarter, extending the stablecoin’s lead as its market capitalization hovers near record levels.
Key Takeaways
Paolo Ardoino says USDT adds over 30 million wallets a quarter, with its user base

Crypto ETF demand split sharply on Thursday, July 16, as bitcoin products drew $79.15 million while ether funds lost $28.04 million. XRP and Solana ETFs also attracted fresh capital, while T. Rowe Price launched a multi-token fund with an unusually large HYPE allocation.
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Real estate mogul Grant Cardone said Cardone Capital added another 10.5 BTC from July property cash flow, bringing his total keep somewhere around 2,700 BTC.
Key Takeaways
Cardone Capital added 10.5 BTC from July real estate cash flow, bringing total to more than 2,700 BTC.
Grant Cardone

SpaceX (Nasdaq: SPCX) fell 3.08% to close at $131.11 yesterday, its first finish below the $135 initial public offering (IPO) price since the rocket maker’s record June debut.
Key Takeaways
SPCX closed at $131.11 on July 16, down 3.08% and below its $135 IPO price for the first time.
SpaceX

Polymarket traders lifted the odds of the CLARITY Act being signed into law this year to 35% on July 17, a sharp recovery from the market’s record low of 24% hit just four days earlier.
Key Takeaways
Polymarket’s CLARITY Act contract rebounded to 35% on July 17 from a record-low 24% on July 13.