Quarterfinal week brings the largest prediction market ever built, a Golden Boot race still up for grabs, and an earnings slate spanning AI infrastructure to institutional adoption
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Over $4.2 billion sits in Polymarket's World Cup Winner market alone as of July 13 2026, with Kalshi's volume for the same market currently at ~$1.1 billion. Here's how football prediction markets price 104 matches across 39 days.
$5.3 billion in combined volume on the winner contract alone, and the knockouts have barely started. France at 39%, Argentina at 18%, and a bracket split that's repriced every advancement market on both platforms.
Combined June 2026 volume across Kalshi and Polymarket hit $44.8 billion, with World Cup markets driving historic trading, but their fees, contracts, and regional availability differ.
AI agents that only advise don't need wallets. Agents that execute do—they need to hold value, pay for what they use, and settle onchain inside limits the user set.
A self-custodial agent wallet lets an AI agent turn an instruction into a signed onchain transaction without taking custody of a user's keys. Here's the full intent-to-execution lifecycle.
US spot Bitcoin ETFs shed a record $4.5 billion in June while the biggest wallets added more than 270,000 BTC. Plus Polymarket's CLARITY Act odds get cut nearly in half, and SpaceX joins the Nasdaq 100.
Compare MetaMask, Coinbase, Cobo, Ledger, BitGo, and OKX on custody, permissions, security checks, and human approval—see what's actually shipped in 2026 versus still on the roadmap.