When Argentina and Spain take the field on Sunday for the World Cup final, more than $5.55 billion will depend on the winner on the Polymarket and Kalshi prediction markets. People also bet millions on who will win third place and the Golden Boot for top scorer. Others are betting on what the commentators might […]
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The lack of an ethical provision remains one of the main sticking points. Sen. Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.), one of two Democrats who voted for the bill out of the Senate Banking Committee, has repeatedly said he would not support the bill in the Senate without a bipartisan ethics provision. Other Democrats have expressed similar concerns
One morning this month, a bay door opened at a massive Boeing plane factory north of Seattle, where workers rolled into an emerald green fuselage. This was only the second 737 Max to enter production at this Everett, Washington, factory, and it was something of a milestone for Boeing. Since the 737’s debut in 1967,
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“Stripe and PayPal generate about the same volume of payments, but Stripe does about one-fifth of the net revenue,” Hadick said. “From a financial perspective, this is obviously accretive, and it helps them connect their merchant processing business, which is at risk of becoming commoditized, with a large subset of PayPal’s more than 400 million
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Cardano developer Input Output is handing over control of the blockchain’s core infrastructure to external teams, reducing the network’s dependence on the company that built it, Input Output announced Friday. Input Output stated that the transfer is the next phase of Cardano’s decentralization. It covers Cardano’s Haskell node, Plutus smart contract platform, Daedalus wallet, Hydra
Tokenized real-world assets (RWA) represent only $12.66 million in active market capitalization despite the recent surge in trading activity. Much of this larger activity, however, came from memecoin traders piling into a new token, CASHCAT, named after Robinhood’s former company mascot. The token rose more than 2,100% in its first week, briefly reaching a market
“The real prize is the yen side of on-chain settlement, one of the most strategic positions in Asian finance over the coming decade, and this is exactly what SBI is moving towards,” he added. A technical limitation remains. JPYSC does not yet support withdrawals to external wallets. “As for JPYSC, its use is currently limited
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What disrupts valuations is licensing. K3 is an open model, with the full model due to be released to the public on July 27. Anyone will be able to download it, run it on their own hardware and not pay anyone. Anthropic released Fable 5 last month and OpenAI shipped GPT-5.6 a week ago, both
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For Bitcoin supporters, the fact that BTC is more stable than Kospi is a notable victory. Still, the largest cryptocurrency remains twice as volatile and risky as the S&P 500, whose 30-day volatility index (VIX) sits below 20%. Perhaps the real milestone for Bitcoin bulls will be the day the VIX becomes more expensive than
