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Genlayer's AI Agent Court: Why DeFi Payments Need Dispute Resolution Before Scale – CoinDesk
Crypto payments move fast, but they don’t forgive. If a bot pays the wrong address or a worker ships a broken deliverable, there’s no friendly chargeback button. That hard finality is great for settlement. It’s awful for disputes, which are just part of doing business. The bigger the volume, the… Listen ⇢
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South Africa World Cup midfielder Jayden Adams dies at 25 – CoinDesk
Jayden Adams, the South African midfielder who represented Bafana Bafana at the 2026 FIFA World Cup just weeks ago, has died at the age of 25. The South African Football Association confirmed the news on July 11, sending shockwaves through the global soccer community and prompting an outpouring of tributes… Listen ⇢
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S&P 500 AI Memory Test: What SK Hynix's $26.5B Nasdaq Debut Says About Chip Demand – CoinDesk
Picture the opening print on a monster listing day. Screens across trading floors flash the same thought: if this clears, the AI memory trade still has legs. It cleared. SK hynix sold 177.9 million ADRs at 149 dollars each, raising about 26.5 billion dollars in New York. It is the… Listen ⇢
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Messi’s World Cup match against Switzerland is already moving the $ARG fan token – CoinDesk
Lionel Messi wants to keep making history at the 2026 World Cup. That ambition, it turns out, is not just a sports story anymore. It’s a market event. As Argentina prepares to face Switzerland, the $ARG fan token on the Chiliz blockchain has become a real-time barometer for Messi’s on-field… Listen ⇢
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Betting on 2026 World Cup Semifinals: How Markets Tighten in the Final Four – CoinDesk
The 2026 FIFA World Cup semifinals represent one of the most anticipated stages in international football. Scheduled for 14 and 15 July, the Final Four brings together the tournament’s last remaining contenders after nearly five weeks of competition. Every tactical adjustment is magnified, betting volumes reach their highest levels outside… Listen ⇢
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Trump pressures US companies to lower prices amid tariff-driven inflation concerns – CoinDesk
President Trump is doing something that reads like economic improv: demanding that private companies lower their prices while simultaneously maintaining tariff policies that analysts say are pushing those prices higher. On June 30, Trump took to Truth Social to pressure gasoline retailers into dropping prices to around $2.50 per gallon,… Listen ⇢
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Rodri sets World Cup record with 62 line-breaking passes as crypto brands flood FIFA’s biggest tournament – CoinDesk
Rodri has completed 62 line-breaking passes in the final third at the 2026 FIFA World Cup, matching a benchmark that has stood since Toni Kroos did it for Germany in 2014. For a tournament that keeps expanding in every direction, from 48 teams to three host nations to an entire… Listen ⇢
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Uniswap’s daily active traders on Robinhood Chain surpass 220K as volume hits $1B – CoinDesk
Uniswap just crossed $1 billion in cumulative trading volume on Robinhood Chain. It took nine days. To put that in perspective, the chain’s public mainnet launched around July 1, and by July 10 the leading decentralized exchange had already processed a billion dollars in trades. Daily active traders surpassed 220,000… Listen ⇢
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Kraken’s FIFA deal and the World Cup’s quiet crypto experiment – CoinDesk
The 2026 FIFA World Cup is here, and with it comes the biggest test yet for crypto’s infiltration of global sports. Kraken became FIFA’s first-ever official crypto exchange supporter on June 9, marking a milestone that would have been unthinkable a few years ago. The Xhaka case study: transfer buzz,… Listen ⇢
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