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Gate has completed the upgrade of its prediction market World Cup section, further enhancing the prediction market experience within the tournament context. After upgrading the Gate App to version v8.25.0 or higher, users can enter the World Cup section with one click via a newly added entry on the homepage, quickly viewing match schedules, standings, popular prediction markets, and more, thereby improving the efficiency of tracking and participating in the tournament. This upgrade adds new sections such as historical champions, best players, and news, providing users with references on team historical records, player performance data, and World Cup hot topics. Simultaneously, a team subscription feature has been launched, allowing users to follow specific national teams or subscribe to all World Cup events with one click, to promptly obtain related match and prediction opportunities. The section also adds a page sharing function, making it convenient for users to share match details, leaderboards, and prediction market content.Furthermore, Gate has launched a World Cup-themed leaderboard to centrally showcase traders with outstanding prediction performance related to the World Cup. This is combined with a "Smart Money" feature to help users track the activities of high-win-rate traders. The platform has recently introduced a prediction market trial voucher mechanism, allowing users to experience prediction market trading at zero cost while retaining profit opportunities, further lowering the barrier to participation. Surrounding the World Cup events, Gate has also launched a series of activities such as "Green Pitch Prophet, World Cup Prediction Carnival" and "Gate Prediction Market × World Cup Daily Highlight Matches," releasing a prize pool of over 550,000 USDT. As the first centralized exchange to integrate with Polymarket, Gate continues to promote the deep integration of prediction markets and sports events, further enriching the application scenarios of prediction markets.
According to CoinDesk, as the U.S. midterm elections heat up, cryptocurrency industry political action committees (PACs) are significantly increasing their financial support for congressional races. Some newly formed PACs are shifting their focus toward Republican candidates. The report notes that Fairshake remains the most influential super PAC in the industry, having already influenced primary outcomes in states like Texas through large-scale spending—and contributing to the defeat of long-time critic, Representative Al Green. Meanwhile, newer PACs such as Fellowship and the Digital Freedom Fund are backing Republican candidates more heavily, potentially undermining the bipartisan balance the crypto industry has maintained across several previous election cycles.
Crypto journalist Eleanor Terrett reported that pro-crypto Democratic candidate Christian Menefee defeated 20-year incumbent Representative Al Green in the TX-18 Democratic primary runoff. In this election, crypto-industry-backed super PACs spent millions of dollars—Fairshake and its affiliated organizations alone contributed approximately $6.5 million, mostly to support Menefee and a smaller portion to oppose Green. Previously, Green received an “F” rating from Stand With Crypto due to his opposition to legislation including the GENIUS Act and the Clarity Act. Fairshake stated it will continue actively supporting leaders like Menefee across the United States.