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FIFA just rolled out its own blockchain.

The goal?

Full control over how digital assets, games, and fan experiences are built and scaled without relying on third-party chains.

With over 5 billion fans worldwide and 1.5 billion watching the last World Cup final, this news demonstrates that blockchain is ready for real-world, global-scale use cases.

This new chain will power FIFA’s growing suite of digital products:

• FIFA Collect, now migrated from Algorand to Avalanche, offers tradable NFT highlights with real perks like World Cup tickets and exclusive airdrops.
• FIFA Rivals, an arcade-style mobile game leveraging NFTs technology and launching globally in June.
• 0xFútbol, a fan-driven ecosystem built on Avalanche, introduces the FUTBOL token for prediction markets, quests, and fan engagement across apps.

The ecosystem uses an Avalanche Subnet (EVM-compatible), which ensures low latency, high scalability, and smooth onboarding via wallets such as MetaMask, Rabby, and others.

This move isn’t just about collectibles or gaming. It’s about turning fans into participants and giving them a stake in the game itself.

It is a big step toward large-scale tokenized fandom.

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It has flown under the radar that a month ago, @cantorfitzgerld, @tether, and @SoftBank launched together Twenty One Capital, a crypto venture designed to offer investors a public vehicle for Bitcoin exposure and Bitcoin-native financial products.

Launching with 42,000 BTC in its treasury, it becomes the third-largest Bitcoin holder globally. Twenty One will focus on two key metrics:

• Bitcoin-per-Share (hard backing)
• Bitcoin Yield (QoQ growth)

The company is valued at approximately $4.4 billion (including debt) at a Bitcoin price of $104,000. It's also raising additional capital via a $385M convertible bond issuance and a $200M private equity placement.

Twenty One is designed to increase Bitcoin per share while supporting Bitcoin-based financial products and media, responding to increasing demand for large-scale institutional Bitcoin exposure.

The strategy of Twenty One is to:

1. Raise capital
2. Buy BTC
3. Repeat (while ensuring stock dilution is lower than BTC appreciation)

If well-executed, it turns every capital raise into accretive value for shareholders.

This plan mirrors the playbook of MicroStrategy ($MSTR), which pivoted to Bitcoin in 2020. Today, it holds 538,200 BTC, and its equity has surged ~15x since the pivot.

At this point, you might be wondering: why invest in this rather than just buying Bitcoin directly?

The main reasons are:

• LBEs (Leveraged Bitcoin Equities) can outperform BTC and ETFs in bull markets.
• The equity premium and compounding BTC/share dynamics can offer higher returns.
• ETFs are passive; LBEs are capital-efficient BTC accumulation engines.

What happens when privacy laws collide with immutable ledgers?

The 2025 GDPR update might be the biggest legal challenge blockchains have ever faced.

We break it down and suggest a path forward in this article by @GianlucaDiBell9.

Read it now: tinyurl.com/EUGDPR2025

The open-source cloud storage protocol, @Filecoin, and aerospace giant @LockheedMartin have successfully transmitted data in space using the InterPlanetary File System (IPFS).

It’s a major step toward more reliable data storage and sharing in extraterrestrial environments.

Unlike traditional systems that identify data by location, IPFS identifies data by its content. This is especially useful in space, where delays and radiation can disrupt communication.

The two companies tested this tech on Lockheed’s LM 400 satellite, currently orbiting Earth. By adapting IPFS for space, they’re laying the foundation for a more distributed, battle-tested way of storing and retrieving information, from satellite images to spacecraft logs.

This is because the IPFS' architecture allows for multiple copies of data to be stored across a global network, reducing dependence on centralized servers. That’s key for deep-space missions, where it can take seconds to send data from the Moon, and minutes from Mars.

This approach also increases reliability. If a piece of hardware fails or degrades, a common risk in space, others can still provide the same verified data.