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$SOL ⚽ FIFA Is Using Avalanche Blockchain for the 2026 World Cup Ticketing System #FIFA is integrating Avalanche blockchain technology into its new World Cup 2026 ticket distribution system to reduce ticket bots, fake tickets, and black-market scalping.
🔸 Instead of selling tickets directly at first, FIFA issues Right-To-Buy (RTB) passes through the FIFA Collect platform.
Fans holding RTBs receive priority access to purchase tickets before public sales begin. These RTBs can also be traded or transferred on secondary markets.
🔸 The entire process is recorded on the Avalanche blockchain, allow

🚨 Capital B Shareholders Approve Massive Bitcoin Buying Plan Capital B has officially approved a huge fundraising package aimed at expanding its Bitcoin strategy.
📊 The company can now raise:
• Up to $5.76B through new share issuance
• Up to $115.2B through debt and credit instruments…all potentially to buy more #Bitcoin
😆👀 At current prices, that amount could theoretically purchase around 1.87 million BTC.
If fully deployed, the move would represent one of the largest corporate Bitcoin accumulation strategies ever attempted.
The “MicroStrategy playbook” is no longer just one company anym

🏦 Fidelity Joins Wall Street Race to Manage Stable coin Reserves Fidelity Investments has launched a new product called the Fidelity Reserves Digital Fund, designed specifically for stable coin issuers looking to store reserve assets under upcoming U.S. regulations.
🔸 The move highlights how major traditional finance firms are increasingly competing to become the infrastructure layer behind stable coins. Just days earlier, State Street also introduced a similar reserve-focused product.
📜 Under the new U.S. stable coin framework, issuers are expected to hold reserves in:
• Cash
• Short-term

🤖 Block Says New AI Tool Now Handles 15% of Its Production Code Changes Block, the financial technology company founded by Jack Dorsey, has launched a new internal AI coding assistant called Builder bot.
🔸 According to the company, the AI system is already responsible for around 15% of all code changes shipped to production.
📊 Current scale:• Over 200,000 AI-assisted tasks per day• Around 1,500 code change requests every week
🔸 What makes Builder bot different is that it understands Block’s entire software ecosystem, allowing engineers to work across parts of the company they may have neve

🇺🇸 Fed Chair Kevin Warsh Signals Major Changes to Federal Reserve Strategy New Fed Chair Kevin Warsh has made it clear that he dislikes the traditional “forward guidance” approach, signaling that the Federal Reserve may reduce how much it telegraphs future policy decisions to markets.
📊 For now, the Fed’s latest projections show:• U.S. GDP growth at 2.2% this year and 2.3% next year• Unemployment at 3.6% this year and 3.3% next year• Inflation at 3.8% this year and 3.6% next year
🔸 Warsh has also ordered the creation of a special task force aimed at overhauling large parts of the Federal R

🇺🇸 U.S. stock futures are turning green again.🇰🇷 South Korea’s Kospi and 🇯🇵 Japan’s Nikkei 225 continue pushing to fresh highs. Right now, the market seems stuck between optimism and caution.
📈 Bullish side:
•The Strait of Hormuz has reopened
• Oil prices continue cooling
• Geopolitical tensions appear to be easing
• Risk assets are stabilizing again
📉 Bearish side:
• The Fed’s next move is increasingly expected to lean hawkish• Inflation pressures remain elevated
• Higher rates for longer — or even another hike — are back in the conversation Markets are now trying to figure out which

🇺🇸 CoinDesk: Illinois Governor Signs New 0.2% Crypto Transaction Tax Into Law The new law imposes a 0.2% tax on crypto transactions in the state of Illinois — including transfers between personal wallets owned by the same individual.
⚠️ Important: This rule currently applies only within the state of Illinois, not across the entire United States.
🔸 The Crypto Council for Innovation criticized the move, calling it:
“the most punitive digital asset tax regime in the United States.”
🔸 Critics argue the policy could discourage on-chain activity, self-custody usage, and broader crypto innovation

📉 Pump.fun Activity Collapses as Traders Abandon Meme coins Activity on Pump.fun, the popular meme coin launch platform on Solana, has dropped nearly 80% as traders increasingly shift toward perpetual futures trading.
🔸 The platform’s token graduation rate fell to just 0.26% last week.
🔸 Daily revenue has plunged to around $800K, down sharply from approximately $4.8M per day six months ago.
🔸 Meanwhile, the platform’s native token PUMP has declined roughly 40% over the same period.
📉 The slowdown is also hitting the Solana ecosystem:
Daily network fees on Solana have dropped to around 5,3

🌍 Ripple Buys Stake in Flutter wave to Expand Crypto Payments Across Africa Ripple has acquired a stake in Flutter wave, one of Africa’s largest fintech companies, in a deal valuing the company at around $3.3 billion, according to Bloomberg.
🔸 As a shareholder rather than just a commercial partner, Ripple is expected to help Flutter wave integrate:
• RLUSD stable coin
• Ripple Payments
• XRP Ledger infrastructure The goal is to make cross-border payments across Africa faster and cheaper.
🔸 Flutterwave currently operates in 35 African countries, making it one of the continent’s biggest payme

😂 Sam “Curly Hair” Bankman-Fried reportedly told a fellow inmate:
💬 “If you want to make serious money, you need at least $50M–$100M first.
Then you build a real business and scale it.”Cellmate: “So what are you gonna do when you get out?
”Sam: “I’ll launch my own coin.
People will buy it anyway 👀”According to New York Magazine, this conversation was shared by one of SBF’s fellow inmates with reporters.
💀 Bro really looked at a 25-year sentence and still came to the conclusion that launching another token is the move.
The craziest part?
He might not even be wrong.
‍#MyGateTradeStory $BTC

🇺🇸 Michael Burry Says He Considered Shorting SpaceX… But Didn’t Michael Burry revealed that he once considered betting against SpaceX stock, but ultimately decided not to because the cost of buying put options was simply too expensive.
📉 In other words:
Even one of Wall Street’s most famous short sellers wasn’t confident enough to bet heavily against SpaceX at current valuations.
🔸 SpaceX has now surged into the ranks of America’s largest companies, fueled by massive optimism around:
• AI infrastructure
• Starlink growth
• Defense contracts
• Space and telecom dominance
⚠️ The interesting

🚀 SpaceX Surges Another 13%, Becomes America’s 4th Largest Company SpaceX shares jumped another 13% to around $216, pushing the company past Microsoft in market capitalization and making it the 4th largest company in the U.S.
🔸 SpaceX also announced plans to acquire Cursor, the popular AI coding assistant platform, in a deal reportedly valuing the company at $60 billion.
🔸 Elon Musk stated that SpaceX could potentially generate around $1 trillion in annual revenue by 2030.
📊 For comparison:
• SpaceX revenue in 2025: $18.7B
• Net loss in 2025: -$4.9B
• Q1 this year alone: -$4.28B
Despite ma

South Korean Police Bust Crypto Laundering Ring Linked to Cambodian Scam Network South Korean authorities have dismantled a major crypto money laundering operation tied to scam organizations based in Cambodia, uncovering hundreds of victims and estimated losses of around $17 million.
🔸 Seoul police indicted 23 suspects on charges related to money laundering and foreign exchange violations, while 2 key individuals were formally arrested.
🔸 Another 33 individuals are accused of illegally exchanging approximately $4.1 million worth of cryptocurrency.
🔸 Investigators say the group moved around

🚀 BlackRock Launches New Bitcoin Income ETF “BITA”BlackRock has launched a new Bitcoin ETF called BITA (Bitcoin Premium Income ETF), designed to give investors exposure to Bitcoin while also generating monthly income.
🔸 The fund holds spot Bitcoin indirectly through IBIT, BlackRock’s existing spot Bitcoin ETF.
🔸 At the same time, BITA sells covered call options on roughly 25%–35% of its Bitcoin exposure to collect option premiums.
🔸 Those option premiums are then distributed to investors as recurring monthly income.
📈 The goal is to attract investors who want Bitcoin exposure but also pre

💰 Could Part of $8–9 Trillion Soon Flow Back Into Risk Assets?
Rick Rieder, BlackRock’s CIO of Global Fixed Income, says there is currently around $8–9 trillion sitting inside money market funds earning safe yield.
According to Rieder, following the recent Iran peace agreement, some of that capital has started rotating back into stocks and risk assets.
🔸 He pointed to yesterday’s market action:
• U.S. equities rallied
• Bonds moved higher
• Bitcoin recovered alongside broader risk sentiment
🔸 However, it’s important to note that the $8–9 trillion figure represents total money market fund as

🚀 Nvidia Plans $20B Bond Sale to Expand AI Investments According to Bloomberg, Nvidia is preparing to raise at least $20 billion through a multi-tranche bond offering to fund AI expansion and refinance existing debt.
🔸 The move highlights how demand for AI infrastructure continues to surge globally.
🔸 It also reinforces the growing trend of Bitcoin mining companies such as HIVE Digital, Tera Wulf, Hut 8, and Clean Spark pivoting toward AI data center services.
⛏️ Since the 2024 Bitcoin halving, traditional mining economics have become increasingly challenging, forcing many miners to sell po

📉 $BEAT Still Looks Weak — Key Support Being Tested
$BEAT has now retraced more than 70% from the local top, and the chart structure continues to favor the bears.
🔸 The current key support zone sits around $3.4 - $3.5, which has been tested multiple times over the past few days.
Buyers are trying to defend this area, but momentum remains weak.
🔸 Price is also trading inside a clear descending channel, with lower highs and lower lows continuing to form — a classic short-term downtrend structure.
🔸 Volume has been fading during recent rebounds, suggesting there is still not enough buying pr

₿ If Strategy Can’t Sell More STRC, Where Will the Money for More Bitcoin Come From?The answer: more MSTR dilution.
Michael Saylor’s strategy basically works like this:
🔸 STRC trades above $100→ Strategy sells STRC→ Uses the proceeds to buy more BTC
🔸 STRC falls below $100→ Increase the dividend yield if necessary to support demand
🔸 STRC still stays below $100?→ Sell more MSTR shares instead→ Use the cash to both:
• Pay STRC dividends
• Buy even more BTC
🔸 Strategy accumulates more Bitcoin→ Investors become more bullish→ STRC price recovers
🔁 Repeat the cycle. At its core, the model reli