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Odaily, Solana-based fully on-chain prediction market World.xyz has now launched on Phantom wallet and its official website. The platform allows users to trade contracts on events such as cryptocurrency prices and the 2026 FIFA World Cup, adopting Chainlink as its primary oracle infrastructure for market data.World.xyz is a non-custodial prediction market, utilizing Phantom's stablecoin for settlement. (coindesk)
According to The Block, Trump's annual financial disclosure report (totaling 927 pages) released by the U.S. Office of Government Ethics shows that Trump received significant crypto-related income through his family crypto company World Liberty Financial (WLF), including over $65.6 million from the sale of WLF Holdco equity and approximately $236.25 million from WLF token sale allocations. Additionally, the report disclosed his cold wallets holding various crypto assets such as Bitcoin, Ethereum, USDC, LINK, AAVE, ENA, MOVE, and ONDO, and that he received approximately $1.8 million in Ethereum staking rewards. Trump also holds up to $100,000 in Coinbase stock and multiple investments in Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy). In contrast, Vice President JD Vance's annual financial report is only 17 pages, disclosing that he holds Bitcoin valued at up to $500,000.
that, according to official sources, OKX has officially launched OKX.AI, a decentralized platform for the Agent economy that supports AI Agents in issuing tasks, accepting tasks, making payments, evaluations, and arbitrations. OKX founder and CEO Star stated in a post on X: "Over the past two decades, the world has been restructured around apps; in the next ten years, the world will be restructured around Agents. Agents will serve humans, will hire other Agents, will pay Agents, and will collaborate with Agents to complete complex tasks. Humans will then devote more of their energy to imagination, judgment, goals, and truly unique value."Star emphasized that this is not an era of more efficient software, but a new economic era. He said: "In the future, it will no longer belong solely to companies with the most employees, but also to individuals with the best Agents. One person can be a world-class company. Welcome to the Agentic Economy. Welcome to OKX.AI."
The PPP prediction market tool monitors that in the Polymarket "2026 World Cup Round of 32 Netherlands vs. Morocco" prediction event, a smart money address (0x0c787cc2962ee6464414da592b892c3886e077f1) with total profits exceeding $229,000 purchased $116,000 on the Netherlands defeating Morocco. The average entry price was 43¢, with 274,653.6 shares bought, currently showing an unrealized loss of $1,373.The Round of 32 match between the uncrowned kings of the Netherlands and Africa Cup of Nations champions Morocco will kick off on June 30 at 9:00 AM Beijing time. Morocco's current FIFA ranking has just risen to 6th, one spot ahead of the Netherlands. In this World Cup, the Netherlands is known as the "strong offense, weak defense Tulips," while Morocco is the "upgraded Atlas Lions," making this match full of suspense.The Odaily Seer channel continues to focus on the prediction market, seeing changes before prices are set.
according to official sources, ForeGate's supercomputing database, in collaboration with Michael Owen, OKX, WEEX, and OnebullEX, has officially released the in-game research report "ForeGate 2026 World Cup Winning Guide." The report combines ForeGate's AI prediction model with OKX.ai's data path simulation to systematically analyze the advancement probabilities, progression paths, championship odds, win/draw/loss tendencies, and handicap inclinations for the 48 participating teams in the 2026 USA-Canada-Mexico World Cup. Currently, the model's comprehensive prediction accuracy rate reaches 93.8%, showing strong performance in match outcome response, score calibration, and potential matchup path judgment.ForeGate stated that during the World Cup, it will continuously update predictive content based on match results, team form, and model simulation outcomes, helping users understand the probabilistic logic behind schedule changes. Additionally, the ForeGate World Cup Million Dollar Prediction Event is also underway.
Story (IP) has officially been renamed DATA Foundation today, with IP tokens converted to DATA tokens on a 1:1 basis; the number of token holders remains unchanged. Trace, the world’s first public auditing platform for AI training data, has also launched simultaneously, positioned as the “Etherscan for AI training data.” DATA surged 28% today.
According to an official social media announcement by HTX DAO, the HTX Genesis Hackathon—organized by HTX DAO and B.AI, and co-organized by OpenCSG, TinTinLand, and OpenCity—has attracted over 90 teams to register. The total prize pool for this event amounts to 20,000 USDT, with over $100,000 in computing power support provided. The hackathon aims to encourage developers to explore use cases centered around $HTX applications, B.AI ecosystem applications and computing services, AI Agent finance, on-chain asset management, trading infrastructure, DAO tools, and intelligent financial operating systems. Winning teams will receive cash prizes, computing resources, ecosystem support, introductions to investment firms, community exposure, and follow-up grant funding. Registration for HTX Genesis closes on July 5, and the final competition will be held offline during the World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC) in Shanghai on July 17–18.
Odaily Odaily报道，据官方消息，OKX "Rising Star Challenge" Round 2 has officially kicked off. From now until July 5, 23:00 (GMT+8), new users who complete designated tasks such as trading SPCX can claim a newcomer gift package worth 50 USDT, including an 8% discount crypto purchase voucher, trial trading funds, and strategy airdrop coupons.Additionally, new users can participate in an exclusive trading leaderboard to share a 50,000 USDT prize pool, with a top prize of 3,888 USDT, along with the opportunity to win exclusive OKX World Cup limited-edition merchandise.
five Democratic senators urged a Republican committee chairman on Tuesday to immediately hold hearings to investigate a report that the UAE invested $500 million in the Trump family's crypto venture, World Liberty Financial.According to reports, an aide to the Abu Dhabi royal family signed an agreement four days before Trump's inauguration last year to purchase a 49% stake in World Liberty Financial for $500 million. An advance payment of $218 million has been made to entities linked to Trump and his Middle East diplomat, Steve Witkoff, and their families. The senators confirmed that the backer is UAE National Security Advisor Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan.Since Trump took office in January 2025, his administration has approved several deals favorable to the UAE, including a $1.4 billion weapons sale in May 2025 and authorization in November to sell 35,000 advanced AI chips worth over $1 billion to UAE-based G42. (financefeeds)
Bybit's goal difference settlement contracts continue to expand, with 18 new group stage contracts added, now open for pre-match trading. This round of listings covers all group stage fixtures, including several high-profile matchups: Ecuador vs Germany (June 26), Norway vs France (June 27), Spain vs Saudi Arabia (June 27), Jordan vs Argentina (June 28), as well as key group stage matches featuring strong teams like Brazil and Portugal.The contracts are benchmarked at 10. A price above 10 favors the home team, while a price below 10 favors the away team. Settlement occurs automatically 130 minutes after the match ends. Real-time trading is supported during the game, with up to 5x leverage and a minimum entry of 10 USDT.
Odaily, U.S. Senate Democrats have sent a letter to Republican leadership demanding an immediate hearing regarding the potential relationship between the Trump family's crypto project, World Liberty Financial, and the Abu Dhabi royal family.This follows a report by the Wall Street Journal that an investment entity backed by Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan, a member of the Abu Dhabi royal family, secretly acquired a 49% stake in World Liberty Financial. The project is a DeFi and stablecoin venture, with Donald Trump and his three sons listed as advisors.According to the report, the deal was signed by Eric Trump four days before Trump's presidential inauguration in January 2025. The transaction was valued at $500 million, half of which was paid upfront. Approximately $187 million flowed to entities controlled by the Trump family, while at least $31 million went to entities linked to the family of World Liberty co-founder Steve Witkoff. Witkoff was later appointed as the U.S. Special Envoy for the Middle East, and his son, Zach Witkoff, currently serves as CEO of World Liberty.The Trump side has stated that Trump was unaware of the $500 million investment and was not directly involved in the daily operations of World Liberty Financial. Democrats argue that the matter involves potential conflicts of interest between the president's family business interests, foreign capital, and government diplomatic roles, and have therefore called on the Republican-led Senate to launch an investigation as soon as possible.
According to the official page, Robinhood has launched WLD.
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.
a16z crypto posted on the X platform, stating that prediction market open interest reached $1.48 billion in the week ending June 15, hitting a new all-time high for the second consecutive week. Unlike trading volume, which reflects daily activity, open interest tracks the funds participants have deployed and remain at risk. This metric has grown approximately sixfold over the past year, indicating that users are maintaining longer-term financial positions and that prediction markets are evolving into durable market infrastructure. Major events attract a large number of users, and more traders are staying to participate in a wide range of markets covering politics, economics, culture, crypto, and more.Previously, a16z crypto stated that multiple events, including the World Cup, synergized to push prediction market weekly trading volume to a new all-time high of $10.8 billion.
OpenAI has released LifeSciBench, a new evaluation benchmark designed to assess AI systems’ capabilities in real-world scientific research scenarios. LifeSciBench comprises 750 expert-crafted tasks covering seven categories of scientific workflows and seven biology domains. The tasks were contributed by 173 researchers holding doctoral degrees and possessing industry experience in biotechnology or pharmaceuticals. This benchmark emphasizes the assessment of complex scientific research competencies—including evidence integration, experimental design, data analysis, scientific reasoning, and scientific communication—rather than isolated factual questions. Over 79% of the tasks require multi-step reasoning, with an average of approximately four reasoning steps per task, and include 1,062 authentic research-related data attachments (e.g., papers, figures, sequence data, and structural files).
Bitget Wallet has officially launched full-token payment capabilities, allowing users to use thousands of cryptocurrencies beyond just USDT/USDC for card top-ups and QR code payments, eliminating the need for manual swaps or cross-chain transfers. This feature is now available in over 50 countries and regions across Asia-Pacific, Europe, Latin America, and select emerging markets.The initial range of supported tokens includes mainstream assets such as USDT, USDC, ETH, SOL, BNB, BGB, and POL; ecosystem and community tokens like SHIB; as well as regional stablecoins like BRZ (Brazilian Real-backed stablecoin) and XSGD (Singapore Dollar-backed stablecoin). This capability is powered by Onchain Payments Matrix and currently supports over 10 public chains, including Polygon, BNB Chain, Ethereum, and Base, with continuous expansion of supported tokens and networks underway.Through this move, Bitget Wallet aims to integrate on-chain assets into users' everyday consumption and payment scenarios, further enhancing the practical utility of cryptocurrencies and ensuring users can spend any token for real-world purchases.
According to official sources, AlphAi has announced official support for prediction market trading, simultaneously launching the 2026 World Cup prediction event. Users can participate in World Cup-related prediction markets within AlphAi, including champion predictions, Golden Boot winners, team advancements, and match results. During the event period, new users who register can claim a 5 pUSD trial voucher. After completing transactions, they can earn fee-based points and participate in prize pool distributions.AlphAi stated that this launch represents a step in its expansion from Meme token launches into prediction markets and more trading scenarios. The platform will continue to explore directions such as Perp DEX, Stock, and RWA in the future.
World Liberty Financial, a crypto project backed by the Trump family, is expected to receive approval from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) to operate as a national trust bank in the near future. Two former OCC employees who spoke on condition of anonymity revealed that the application is almost certain to be approved.World Liberty Financial established a U.S. trust company in January of this year and submitted an application to the OCC. Obtaining a federal trust bank charter would allow the project to issue and redeem its USD1 stablecoin, manage reserves, provide digital asset custody, and offer conversion and settlement services under a single federal regulatory body, without relying on third-party intermediaries. Currently, the project's intermediary institution is BitGo. (The Block)
According to HTX’s announcement, HTX Plaza has launched a time-limited “World Cup Prediction Red Packet Campaign,” with a total prize pool of up to $100,000 USDT. The campaign runs from June 12 to July 20, 2026 (UTC+8), covering all 34 match days of the World Cup. Users simply need to visit the campaign post on HTX Plaza, participate in the prediction for the day’s first match, and submit their vote to qualify for red packet collection the following day. Additionally, users who post analytical insights about match outcomes in the comment section may further boost their engagement score. The campaign is now live and gaining momentum. Users who participate for seven consecutive days will automatically unlock eligibility for a high-value red packet on Day 8. Head over to HTX Plaza to join the predictions—enjoy the matches and win red packets simultaneously, sharing in the passion and perks of the World Cup.
Odaily Odaily Planet Daily reports that prediction market platforms Polymarket and Kalshi have announced plans to accelerate the deployment of anti-fraud measures during the World Cup to combat potential fraudulent groups, while continuing to expand the coverage of tradable events.According to reports, both companies are introducing more real-world events into prediction markets to enhance user engagement and market liquidity. As transaction volumes continue to grow, related fraudulent activities have also increased. It is reported that Kalshi's annualized revenue reached approximately $1.5 billion in May of this year. (The Information)