The World Cup acted global participation with $20 billion in on-chain prediction market volume tied to the tournament. Nearly 400,000 wallets took part, led by American and Chinese users, with Canada.
Card Collectors have spent a record $324.6 million on on-chain gacha in June alone, a fourth straight monthly record, while Bitcoin has been on a 21-month low of roughly $58,000. The excitement of owning a top Pokemon card from random packs is currently a huge wave roll at the moment.
South Korea’s major crypto exchanges have witnessed their trading activity go downhill over the past year as the country’s stock market surged, suggesting retail speculative interest may be shifting toward equities, analysis shows.
The addition of Polymarket to Czechia’s gambling list mostly reads like a routine bureaucracy and most people consider it so because the platform is one of 1,076 domains the Ministry of Finance has blacklisted this year alone, pushing the country’s total blocklist past 3,300 sites.
The Justice Department unveiled new charges on July 9th against the 53 year old Bulgarian national, who’s currently serving a federal sentence conspired in January 2024 to withdraw and transfer crypto worth $290,000 out of a Kraken account.