Smart Money wallet 'gritsa.eth' opened a long position of 50 BTC, worth approximately $3.22 million.

According to CNBC, the largest and most talked-about World Cup in history has come to a close. Spain defeated Argentina 1-0 in extra time to lift the FIFA World Cup trophy, the highest honor in international football. Off the pitch, FIFA is undoubtedly the biggest winner of this tournament. As the global governing body of football, FIFA hosted the most lucrative sports event in history. According to its own projections, the 2026 World Cup will generate over $9 billion in revenue. This World Cup is also the first in history to expand to 48 participating teams, a significant increase from 32 teams four years prior; the number of matches has risen from 64 to 104, and the tournament schedule has been extended from 4 weeks to 6 weeks. More matches mean more content to sell to broadcasters, more tickets to sell to fans, and more commercial partnership opportunities for advertisers, while also attracting a larger global audience. FIFA President Gianni Infantino has been a core figure driving the commercialization of the World Cup. As the tournament’s scale expands further, FIFA is maximizing the World Cup’s commercial value in an unprecedented manner.

According to Hyperinsight monitoring, the largest BTC long position holder, who previously held $107 million worth of BTC long positions, has started taking profits via position reduction and placed a break-even stop-loss order for remaining positions near their entry cost. Over the past hour, the entity sold a total of 903.4 BTC through 10 limit sell orders, generating approximately $58.424 million in trading volume at an average execution price of ~$64,666.1, realizing a profit of $554,400. Minor additional positions added during the period resulted in a net position reduction of 668.2 BTC. As of press time, the whale still holds 994.2 BTC in long positions, valued at ~$64.195 million, with an average entry price of $64,052 and an unrealized profit of $510,000. Its liquidation price has fallen to $61,604.3. The whale has set stop-loss orders for all remaining long positions: a break-even liquidation will trigger if BTC drops below $64,050—meaning it will lock in the $554,400 realized profit and exit if the price falls back to entry cost; if the price continues to rise, it will hold for further gains, making this setup overall defensive. Previous update: [Whale Alert] A whale opened BTC long positions worth $107 million, becoming the largest BTC long holder.

According to Bitget's market data, China Software International rose more than 30%. As reported today, the company announced it has signed a token revenue sharing and joint innovation cooperation agreement with Moonshot.

According to Form 4 filings, Circle President Heath Tarbert has sold CRCL shares 10 times in total since June 2025, netting roughly $30.77 million in proceeds with no additional stock purchases made. Earlier reports noted that Tarbert recently told Fox Business Network, "the company’s stock price will take care of itself," while emphasizing "Circle is in it for the long haul."

According to Bitget market data, South Korea's KOSPI index plunged 5% intraday, currently trading at 6479.20 points.

According to Bloomberg, during this unprecedentedly popular World Cup, trading volume on prediction markets surged sharply, growing far faster than traditional sports betting platforms, further highlighting the competitive threat that prediction market platforms like Kalshi pose to the sports betting industry. As a leading player in the space, Kalshi broke its own trading records multiple times during the World Cup. Its peak trading volume not only doubled the mark set in the week before the World Cup and during the New York Knicks’ playoffs, but also reached nearly 10 times its average trading level for most of early this year. Research firm H2 Gambling Capital estimated, based on public data from the first month of the World Cup, that prediction market trading volume now accounts for roughly 27% of total U.S. legal sports betting volume, up sharply from 9% at the start of the year. While this comparison is not entirely precise—due to differing trading metrics used by prediction markets and traditional bookmakers, and as bookmakers have not yet released their latest internal data—it still reflects that prediction markets are rapidly eroding market share from traditional sports betting. Another clear sign of the shifting competitive landscape is that, per Apptopia data, Kalshi’s mobile app daily active users (DAU) surpassed those of the two largest U.S. online sports betting platforms, DraftKings and FanDuel, during the World Cup, demonstrating that prediction market platforms are rising rapidly and posing direct competition to traditional sports betting giants in user scale.