🛠️ XRP Ledger set for Wednesday fix to token-printing flaw The XRP Ledger is on track to receive a fix Wednesday for a flaw that could let stablecoin partners print new tokens, according to CoinDesk. Validator support briefly dipped and restarted the two-week activation clock. XRP ($XRP) itself is unaffected.
💵 Prediction markets are becoming crypto products — without looking like crypto. Underdog is preparing to let eligible users fund prediction-market accounts with crypto and stablecoins through a new integration with zerohash. At first glance, that sounds like a basic payments upgrade. It isn’t. The more important part is what users won’t have to do. No manually copying wallet addresses. No wondering which blockchain network to select. No obvious “Web3 onboarding.” The idea is simple: 🏀 Open Underdog 💵 Add funds 📊 Trade prediction markets ⚡ Settle quickly 🔗 Let the blockchain disappear underneath the product That is a much more mature version of crypto adoption. Underdog and zerohash say the system will support near-instant, 24/7/365 account funding, including nights and weekends when traditional banking rails can be slower or unavailable. And that matters enormously for prediction markets. Prediction markets react to information in real time. A player gets injured. A Fed announcement drops. A political headline breaks. A market can move within seconds. But your ACH transfer may still be thinking about Monday morning. Stablecoins solve part of that mismatch. They allow money to move at roughly the same speed as information. That is especially useful for users who want dollar-like stability without taking exposure to BTC or ETH volatility. A $5,000 prediction-market bankroll should ideally remain close to $5,000 while you're deciding what to trade. Stablecoins make that possible. And Underdog is not a tiny crypto startup experimenting with payments. The company has reported: 👥 11M+ registered accounts 💳 5M+ depositing customers 📱 roughly 1M average monthly active users That gives the integration a very different scale. It potentially introduces blockchain-based payments to mainstream sports users who may never think of themselves as “crypto users.” And the audience already overlaps heavily with trading culture. Underdog investor materials have indicated that a significant share of its customers have already traded crypto, individual stocks, or shown interest in crypto-based funding. That convergence is becoming hard to ignore: 🏀 sports fans 📈 retail traders ₿ crypto users 🎯 prediction-market users Increasingly, these are not four separate audiences. They are the same person. The broader strategic context makes the move even more interesting. IG Group agreed in 2026 to acquire Underdog for up to roughly $1.3 billion, while Underdog has also expanded its own regulated prediction-market infrastructure. Now add stablecoin funding. The result starts to look less like a fantasy-sports app and more like a new kind of consumer financial platform. And zerohash is becoming an important part of that infrastructure. It already powers crypto funding for other prediction-market platforms, including Kalshi in the U.S. So we’re starting to see a pattern: 📱 mainstream app 📊 regulated event contracts 💵 stablecoin funding 🔗 blockchain settlement That may be where crypto adoption is really heading. Not toward teaching millions of people how blockchains work. But toward making blockchains invisible enough that nobody has to care. That’s the interesting part. The first phase of Web3 asked users to enter crypto. The next phase may be crypto quietly entering the products users already use. #PredictionMarkets #Stablecoins #Crypto #Blockchain #Underdog #FinTech #Web3 #SportsTech #DigitalAssets #Payments
🍎 Apple overtakes Nvidia as world’s most valuable company Apple officially surpassed Nvidia to become the world’s most valuable company by market cap, according to the latest market data. $AAPL is at $5.0 trillion, while $NVDA is at $4.9 trillion.
