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Bank of America has appointed Sonali Theisen as head of its global digital assets platform and Kevin Milsom as head of AI transformation. The appointments formalize leadership for two areas moving from experimental projects into core financial market infrastructure. Theisen will oversee design,

Drake placed a $1.5 million USDT bet on Argentina at +245 odds through crypto betting platform Stake ahead of the July 19 World Cup final. The wager comes despite prediction markets pricing Spain as the 59% favorite, with Polymarket traders committing $158 million to Argentina against $123.5 million

Strategy Inc. maintained a $3 billion U.S. dollar reserve alongside 843,775 BTC worth approximately $55 billion this week, while the Commodity Futures Trading Commission intervened to block Kalshi from liquidating sports event contracts a Michigan court ordered voided. Separately, venture

Prediction market platforms Polymarket and Kalshi have recorded $5.5 billion in combined trading volume on World Cup final markets, with Spain priced at 59% to defeat Argentina in Sunday's match at Metlife Stadium. Polymarket's World Cup winner contract drew $4.28 billion in total volume, while Kals

At 5:00 a.m. Beijing time on July 19, the 2026 World Cup third-place playoff match between Canada, the U.S., and Mexico will kick off at Miami Hard Rock Stadium. After both teams lost in the semifinals, France and England will fight for the final honor of the bronze medal on this pitch. For these two widely recognized title contenders entering the tournament, the nature of the third-place match is rather subtle. In a pre-match press conference, France’s head coach Deschamps admitted: “No one wan

Tradeify Crypto is a crypto prop trading platform that provides simulated funded trading accounts to active traders. The platform operates under the broader Tradeify umbrella, which has processed more than $200 million in payouts through its Tradeify Futures division, while the crypto division has p

Uniswap governance is voting on two proposals to activate protocol fees for Uniswap v4 pools and extend v2 and v3 fee collection to Robinhood Chain. Both proposals opened for onchain votes Sunday and run through July 26. Uniswap founder Hayden Adams wrote on X Friday that the impact on UNI burn is e

Strategy announced a new digital credit capital framework on June 29 that reduced immediate liquidity concerns by rebuilding cash reserves, pausing bitcoin purchases, and creating tools for dividend funding and share repurchases. The framework marked a shift from aggressive bitcoin accumulation

Bitcoin held near $64,000 on July 18 after bouncing from a low of $62,516 and testing resistance at $64,500. The cryptocurrency consolidated in a narrow range between $63,900 and $64,000 as trading volume declined following the mid-July rebound. Technical indicators showed mixed signals with the

Tokenized gold on the XRP Ledger (XRPL) recently crossed $1 million in cumulative trading volume, according to Trensik, a platform tracking verified real-world assets (RWAs) on the network. The milestone reflects growing demand for blockchain-based commodities and increasing confidence in

Cardano developer Input Output unveiled a multi-year plan to transfer core blockchain infrastructure to independent organizations, marking a milestone in the network's decentralization strategy. The initiative covers the Haskell node, Plutus smart contract platform, Daedalus wallet, Hydra scaling te

Zignaly, a platform that has scaled to over 500,000 users and processed more than $10 billion in volume, is addressing inefficiencies in traditional finance through its Layer 1 network Zigchain. Co-founder Abdul Rafay Gadit, who previously worked in transaction banking at Standard Chartered and

Injective filed an application with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to register as a transfer agent during the Injective Summit in Washington, D.C., while simultaneously launching Injective Mint, an institutional platform for tokenized real-world assets. The company submitted SEC Form

Wonik IPS, a South Korean semiconductor equipment manufacturer, saw its stock price rise 12.56% over four trading days ending on the 16th, closing at 140,700 won compared to 125,000 won on the 10th. The rally occurred despite projections that the company's Q2 operating profit will decline 41% year-o

IBM closed at $212.67 on the 17th at the New York Stock Exchange, down 2.91% from the previous session and approximately 36% below its 52-week high of $332.46 recorded last month on the 2nd. The stock declined over 25% after the company released preliminary Q2 results on the 14th, showing revenue of

Kaspersky uncovered a new malware framework targeting cryptocurrency investors, according to a Wednesday report. Dubbed OkoBot, the malware initiates infection chains through social engineering tactics such as ClickFix and trojanized GitHub apps that deliver backdoors to infected devices. Kaspersky

Kaspersky uncovered a new malware framework targeting cryptocurrency investors in a Wednesday report. Dubbed OkoBot, the malware initiates an infection chain through social engineering tactics such as ClickFix, which tricks users into running malicious commands, or trojanized GitHub apps that

Dogecoin is testing key support levels against both Bitcoin and the U.S. dollar as it approaches a critical decision point. The cryptocurrency sits near $0.07 against the dollar and approximately 0.00000114 BTC against Bitcoin, with both levels representing support zones that have held through

Sedona partnered with Fhenix on July 15 to integrate Confidential Fully Homomorphic Encryption infrastructure into its Arbitrum-based trading system. The integration replaces Sedona's existing security model based on trusted execution environments with fully homomorphic encryption, according to