According to official sources from predict.fun, the Round-of-32 knockout stage of the World Cup is now officially live, and the platform has simultaneously upgraded the Predict Cup event mechanism.
During this knockout round, predict.fun will open 11 prediction markets for each match and increase Fan Points rewards. The official statement indicates that over $1.1 million in the prize pool is still waiting to be claimed by users, with rewards distributed after each knockout match victory.
Notably, the Canada vs. South Africa match is set to begin in less than 3 hours, with $25,000 in rewards directly released from that single match, offering users more frequent opportunities to participate and win.
predict.fun stated that with the start of the knockout stage, the platform will encourage users to actively participate in the World Cup prediction market and compete for subsequent prize pool rewards through more markets, higher point rewards, and a more frequent reward distribution mechanism.
According to GMGN market data, Solana ecosystem Meme coin ANSEM briefly surpassed a $100 million market cap, hitting an all-time high, before retreating to approximately $99 million, with intraday gains exceeding 19,000%.
Odaily reminds investors that Meme coins are highly volatile, driven primarily by market sentiment and speculative hype, lacking clear real-world use cases. Investors should be mindful of associated risks.
Odaily News: Bitcoin News posted on X platform, stating that the hashrate price has dropped 18.34% over the past 30 days.
Odaily Odaily reports that Hyperliquid has announced on the X platform that the Hyper Foundation will provide approximately $10 million in grants to developers affected by the USDH exit. These grants are intended to cover migration costs and support the ecosystem transition. Funds will be allocated to affected ecosystem participants, including HIP-1 spot deployers, HIP-3 perpetual contract deployers, HyperEVM protocols, USDH to USDC bridges, and Native Markets.
HIP-1 and HIP-3 grants are calculated based on auction deployment costs. HyperEVM grants are assessed based on the scale of USDH TVL impact. All recipients must complete migration or business wind-down by the end of July. Migration grants are aimed at teams migrating USDH-related markets or deployments to USDC, while wind-down grants are for projects choosing to terminate USDH-related operations, with amounts lower than equivalent migration solutions.
According to data shared by Michael Saylor, as of June 28, 2026, Strategy holds 847,363 Bitcoin worth approximately $50.9 billion, with an average purchase price of $75,653 per coin from 113 buys.
The StrategyTracker chart shows that Strategy has been continuously accumulating Bitcoin from 2024 to 2025, with Saylor also indicating an intention to continue buying. Strategy's stock price has declined recently, drawing market attention to its financing model and dividend obligations; Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse has criticized this, while its dollar reserves are reportedly sufficient to cover approximately 10 months of dividend payments. (CoinDesk)
According to Odaily, Google is restructuring its newly formed AI coding tools task force in an effort to catch up with Anthropic in the field of AI applications.
Odaily reported that according to Bitcoin News monitoring, Bitcoin mining difficulty has risen to 133.87 trillion.
Odaily reported that Dario Amodei, co-founder and CEO of Anthropic, told U.S. lawmakers on Capitol Hill that open source AI development is entering a "very dangerous path." Once powerful AI models are released in an open source format, developers lose the ability to effectively supervise how the models are used, including the inability to monitor abusive behavior, revoke access permissions, or dynamically update security mechanisms, thereby increasing potential risks. Dario Amodei stated that compared to closed model systems, fully open models are more difficult to implement ongoing control over safety governance, potentially leading to irreversible abuse risks.
Odaily reports that Santiment suggests the hype around tokenized stocks could propel Solana to lead the crypto market.
Odaily reported that the US Permanent Representative to the United Nations stated that our actions will continue as necessary to destroy the infrastructure Iran uses to control the Strait of Hormuz. If Iran believes Trump will stand idly by while it attacks shipping and our bases, it is mistaken. Iran must either choose to become a responsible nation or continue down a path leading to destruction. (Jin Shi)
PPP highlights the upcoming match: South Africa vs. Canada will kick off in six hours. Notably, an address with a profit of $2.12 million has purchased $140,000 on Canada to win.
A new address with a three-week loss of $210,000 has purchased $200,000 on the match not ending in a draw.
A whale with a total profit of $760,000 has purchased $50,000 on a draw.
Odaily reported that San Francisco-based venture capital firm Framework Ventures has raised a $400 million fund, planning to invest in the intersection of tokenization, stablecoins, and frontier technologies.
Framework Ventures co-founder Michael Anderson stated that the firm believes blockchain, through tokenization, will become the financing layer for AI computing power, robotics, and energy infrastructure. The crypto industry has shifted from serving crypto users to solving capital formation problems for real-world industries. (CoinDesk)
Odaily Planet Daily News: ZachXBT stated on the X platform that he has recently been publishing more analytical content on Telegram channels rather than on X. In June, his content distribution was "9 reports on Telegram, compared to only 1 investigation on X." ZachXBT noted that multiple technical bugs occurred during the migration from the traditional private messaging system to XChat, while the reliability of X's search function has declined, impacting the efficiency of information retrieval.
ZachXBT said that the X platform algorithm creates a "traffic trap" for cryptocurrency content, making it more likely to be restricted to the crypto vertical circle, reducing its ability to reach a broader audience. He may explore other content distribution platforms in the future and stated that this published content will be deleted after 1 hour.
Odaily, Swan CEO Cory Klippsten believes that Bitcoin has only a 10% to 15% chance of reaching a new all-time high in 2026. Cory Klippsten stated that some truly exogenous event would need to occur, and he does not currently know what event could cause Bitcoin's price to double within the next six months. (Cointelegraph)
Odaily Odaily reported that Paradis Labs posted on X platform, stating that South Korea's humanoid robot supply chain is crucial to the upcoming increase in humanoid robot production.
GS expects that by 2035, 30% of humanoid robot components will come from South Korea, as the country's automotive industry experience can be translated into the production capacity for humanoid robot parts such as actuators. Actuators, which essentially mimic human muscles and joints, currently account for about 50% of a humanoid robot's bill of materials. South Korea holds an advantage in actuator production because the related technologies are similar to automotive component technologies, including power steering, braking systems, and autonomous driving technology.
GS noted that several South Korean automotive parts manufacturers have leveraged this experience to secure positions among the key non-Chinese suppliers for critical robot actuators.
Paradis Labs stated that in terms of exposure to the upstream humanoid robot sector, South Korea appears poised to play a significant role among the key non-Chinese suppliers of humanoid robots, while also securing a critical position in the AI supply chain through SK hynix and Samsung's memory businesses.
Odaily reported that, 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.
