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FBI investigates Argentina FA! Suspected $300 million money-laundering case puts president Tapia in the spotlight
According to reports from several authoritative media outlets in Argentina and Spain, including Argentina’s La Nación, Spain’s COPE radio, and Argentina’s Infobae, during Argentina’s World Cup campaign, the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and federal prosecutors have officially launched an investigation into the Argentine Football Association (AFA). The probe involves more than $300 million and focuses on whether AFA’s use of the U.S. banking system to move funds constitutes money laundering or bank fraud.
The investigation centers on a company called TourProdEnter LLC. As disclosed, the company has been accused of handling the collection of AFA’s international commercial contract payments. Investigation documents show that the company transferred at least $260 million through multiple U.S. banks, including $57 million whose destination remains unclear. Investigators have subpoenaed key witnesses to gather evidence.
The investigation is still in its early stages and has not yet led to formal charges. Although AFA president Tapia is subject to an Argentine domestic exit ban, he has received special judicial permission to travel with the team to attend the World Cup in the United States. $BNB

This old man has the world spinning in circles and won’t say a word.
Trump: Will not trigger a second war with Iran; does not plan for a protracted war
U.S. President Trump said he believes there will not be another war with Iran. If anything happens, it will end quickly. We are not seeking a long-term war. If Iran attacks, we will respond. Any military action, once it occurs, will unfold rapidly. $BNB

Baddass!
He Yi: If you approve of CZ or of me, you can buy BNB directly without searching for any clues or making donations
Binance co-founder He Yi posted on the X platform, saying that if you recognize CZ or yourself, you can directly buy BNB without looking for so-called “clues” and without making any donations.
Yi He said that his own holdings of BNB have already been fully disclosed on the Binance platform. $BNB

There’s an interesting phenomenon right now: it seems that most Chinese football fans stand with Argentina and Messi. On domestic social media, as soon as someone says the referee was biased toward Argentina, a swarm of people will immediately start to attack them—saying they don’t understand the game and that the referee was very fair, and that there’s no problem with Messi winning. However, abroad the situation seems different.

France’s head referee, Letexier, sparked widespread anger over allegedly unfair officiating—40,000 negative comments flooded in! He was forced to close his social media account, and FIFA has agreed to review the match’s decisions.

In the match where France’s head referee Letexier oversaw Argentina’s 3–2 comeback against Egypt, he was deeply embroiled in controversy over the officiating afterward. Nearly 40,000 fans’ comments poured into the comment section, with many voices complaining and swarming the screen. Among them were even extreme personal attacks. Under such immense pressure, he was forced to shut down his personal social media account.

Throughout the match, the refereeing standards were heavily criticized. Argentina’s players committed repeated tactical fouls and were only given verbal warnings. Molina raised his hand and struck an opponent in the face in a violent foul; a red card should have been shown, but it was ignored. Egypt players, who engaged in similarly physical challenges, were frequently booked— the whole team ended with 5 yellow cards and 1 red. Even the coaching staff were sent to the stands.

Egypt’s goal was disallowed due to a minor foul. In stoppage time, Salah was pulled down in the penalty area, but the referee refused to trigger a VAR review. Then Enzo completed the winning goal, and a series of controversial decisions thoroughly ignited fans’ dissatisfaction.

Even if Letexier himself believes the decisions were correct, the massive amount of criticism has seriously disrupted his personal life. The Egyptian Football Association has already formally submitted an appeal, and FIFA will review the officiating decisions from this match. If it’s found that the referee made multiple major mistakes, he will most likely be removed from officiating subsequent World Cup matches.

I think FIFA should launch an investigation quickly, clarify the facts as soon as possible—right and wrong—there was no major issue with the decisions, clear the coach’s name, and shut down the online outrage.

If the referee really was unfair, then handle it accordingly. For example, cancel Argentina’s last goal and let the two teams settle it with a penalty shootout, so the World Cup gets the fair outcome it deserves. Also, if it’s confirmed that the referee intentionally favored a side, then a criminal case should be filed—trace it back to find out why he did it, investigate whether there are criminal behaviors behind it, such as match-fixing or gambling capital manipulation, and only then can public anger be truly appeased. $SOL

What does it mean? Are they not allowed to use BTC ATMs anymore?
U.S. federal court dismisses emergency challenge; Tennessee’s crypto ATM ban goes into effect
The U.S. federal court declined to pause Tennessee’s crypto ATM ban before it took effect on July 1, and Public Chapter 766 remains enforceable while the constitutional lawsuit filed by CoinFlip and Private IT Corporation is ongoing. The law states that in Tennessee, intentionally installing, allowing to be placed, placing, or operating a virtual currency kiosk constitutes a Class A misdemeanor. Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti said that crypto ATMs are tools used by scammers targeting vulnerable Tennessee residents and are rarely used for purposes approaching legitimate ones. CoinFlip operates more than 5,500 Bitcoin ATMs across 48 U.S. states and multiple countries, while Private IT Corporation is a small operator that joined the lawsuit after Tennessee’s ban threatened its local business. $AAPL.US

Facts have proved that the main force supporting the high World Cup ticket prices is American viewers. Look—once the U.S. team gets eliminated, World Cup ticket prices drop sharply, and the crowd’s enthusiasm at the venue quickly cools down.
So far, the 2026 World Cup has produced the quarterfinals, and in theory this is when the real cut-and-thrust begins, with strong teams facing off against each other—this is also the time when it’s most exciting. But as all three host nations have been knocked out, so-called “fake fans” don’t feel like joining in anymore. They choose not to watch, leading to a huge drop in stadium ticket prices.
For the Spain vs. Belgium match, the lowest resale ticket price has already fallen from $2,950 to $1,200, a decline of as much as 60%.
It seems that it isn’t fans pouring in from all over the world who are propping up the box office for the World Cup in the U.S., Canada, and Mexico—rather, it’s American viewers holding it up. The International Federation of Association Football (FIFA), desperately trying to secure Argentina’s progression, is actually less cost-effective than trying to ensure the U.S. team progresses. In fact, President Trump—the business genius—had already seen this. By personally intervening to allow the red-carded players to keep playing, he aimed to help boost World Cup ticket sales, but unfortunately the federation officials didn’t get the point.$AVAX

Should I be responsible for this pot?
After Korea was eliminated, they actually said the responsibility was on China? Just because Korea has been playing against China for years, they’ve kicked away all the level.
This… this… somehow leaves me speechless! Normally I’d at least say a couple things, but now I’ve thought about it for a long time and still can’t come up with a rebuttal. $BNB

Did everyone make money? Early buyers of Binance Life saw profits of over 5,000 times. A certain whale continues to take profits
According to on-chain analysts Yu Jin monitoring, a certain whale continues to take profits of 7 million Binance Life tokens today, worth $4.95 million. Of this, 6.9 million were transferred to Binance, worth $4.88 million; 100,000 were sold on-chain and exchanged for BNB, worth $70,000. After Binance Life was deployed and went live in October last year, the whale spent 2.14 BNB within half an hour, worth $2,480, and bought 18.5 million Binance Life tokens, holding them until recently. Since it started taking profits in June, it has already sold 10.5 million Binance Life tokens, worth $7.33 million. It still holds 8 million Binance Life tokens on-chain, worth $5.71 million. The $2,480 investment has grown to over $13 million. $币安人生

On X, everyone is gathered around a so-called “god account”: “Trump teaches you how to trade stocks.”
Didn’t President Trump just release his financial report? In those 900-plus pages, there are thousands of transactions recorded—covering stocks, funds, crypto, and more.
Of course, Trump the president isn’t a god either—he can’t predict market ups and downs. But he can “draw” the candlestick chart himself, so he’s unbeatable in the exchange arena.
This guy even imitates Trump’s tone: by explaining the trading operations of the stocks Trump publicly holds, he teaches people the candlestick-chart logic of a stock god.
Many guys have come to understand the “divine logic” behind Trump’s holdings.
For example, he bought prison-related stocks, and then… he locked up a large number of illegal immigrants in those prisons…
For example, he bought steel and then imposed tariffs…
Based on this, the guy predicts that Trump’s next purchase will be shipbuilding.
He also has many other entertaining posts with similar reasoning. But as the saying goes, once people get famous, trouble follows—various mocking of the commander-in-chief led to the account getting banned.
However, things have recently turned around. Under the strong public pressure of the masses, Musk has recently restored the account. This guy has regrouped the audience and is preparing to go on the rampage again. $GOOGL.US

I’m wondering: if our country also set up similar accounts for children, would it help improve the birth rate? Would our billionaire entrepreneurs be willing to donate hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of stock to support the children of our motherland?
On July 4, the “Trump Account,” which benefits tens of millions of American children, was officially launched. Tech giant Dell and his wife also announced a donation of $6.25 billion to help.
The “Trump Account” will provide every American newborn born between 2025 and 2028 with $1,000 in government seed funding, paid by the U.S. Treasury. The account will grow through compound interest by investing in the U.S. stock market, providing support for children’s education, home purchase, and entrepreneurship after they turn 18.
Meanwhile, the Dell couple’s massive $6.25 billion donation will serve as a supplement to the “Trump Account.” It will provide about 25 million American children born between 2016 and 2024 with $250 each into their personal investment accounts.
The couple said: “We don’t want children before the deadline to be excluded,” and they called on more business leaders to join, giving the next generation a starting point for the “American Dream.”
This is the largest charity program in the United States in recent years that directly benefits children at scale. By partnering government and private enterprises to help children become early “shareholders” in American capitalism and long-term investors, it may play a role in addressing the “widespread pessimism and social division” on the occasion of the country’s 250th anniversary.
More major U.S. companies and wealthy individuals are expected to join in donations and actions to match funding for the Trump Account. $BTC

Send a red envelope to cheer on Bitcoin! Just leave a comment in the comment section: “Cheer on Bitcoin”, and you’ll get an airdrop token red envelope. We’ll start with 3,888—if that’s not enough, I’ll add more. Everyone gets a share!
All three major U.S. stock indexes fell at the same time. Intel (INTC) dropped more than 10% during the day; however tonight our big pie is doing great—it didn’t follow the U.S. stocks down, but instead rose against the trend! Bitcoin surged to 64,000, and Ethereum briefly bounced back to break above 1,800! Tell me, what does this mean? Is it really a cooldown in semiconductors and AI, and funds are flowing back into crypto?! Hope that’s the case! Go call everyone over to share and comment to claim the red envelope—let’s all cheer on Bitcoin together, and bring the bull market back!
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Recently, quite a number of friends who trade BTC short-term have been flocking to Binance to use the BTC/USD1 perpetual contract. The truly compelling appeal of zero maker fees really draws many people in. As more participants come, the order book depth keeps improving, and in some periods it even surpasses BTC/USDC. I tried it myself—the execution experience is indeed very smooth. Especially for traders who rely on low-slippage fills and fine-grained position management, placing limit orders basically costs nothing.
On May 18 this year, Binance officially launched the BTCUSD1 USD1-denominated perpetual contract. This is Binance Futures’ first perpetual contract that uses USD1 as the trading and settlement unit. Before this, USD1 on Binance was only a secondary collateral option—traders would use it to borrow USDT. Now it has been upgraded to a mainstream settlement asset: profits, losses, and funding fees are all calculated in USD1. With 100x leverage, capital efficiency is completely on a different level.
Binance is offering a time-limited discount for the USD1-denominated perpetual contracts. Regular users through VIP 9 all enjoy zero maker order fees. From regular up to VIP 3, taker fees are discounted to 80%; VIP 4 to VIP 9 get 40–50% off. High-frequency short-term traders can do the math and know these savings are definitely not small.
In addition, Binance Wealth Management offers USD1 current-account products with quite decent annualized yields. In the first 2,000 USD1, the highest rate can reach 8.5%. Previously, there were also promotions of 10.5% and even 20%. The USD1 you hold in your contract account can serve as margin to open positions, earn wealth-management interest, and also participate in the WLFI airdrop to get a 1.2x bonus. One pot of money doing three kinds of work—capital utilization is maximized.
The USD1 supply itself is also expanding quickly. It rose from around $3 billion at the end of last year to about $4.5 billion now, up 50%. The supply also doubled from $2 billion to over $4 billion, far exceeding the stablecoin market’s average growth rate of 32%.
Zero fees attract more limit orders. With more limit orders, depth improves. Once depth is better, large orders dare to come in. When more large orders arrive, it attracts even more traders to use the USD1 trading pair. This positive feedback loop, once it starts running, can only make liquidity thicker and thicker. Moreover, since USD1 can be used for wealth management, used as margin, and used for airdrops, what reason would holders have not to keep their assets within the ecosystem? For short-term traders, this is a real and tangible cost-optimization tool; for long-term allocators, it’s a gateway to participate in a rapidly growing ecosystem. “There’s meat hidden in the details”—that saying really holds true.
#USD1 #WLFI #BTC $USD1

The market again plays with people. Bitcoin is up another 64,000. Strategy’s announcement that it will sell coins looks like a seemingly certain bearish catalyst. Many people want to take the chance to make a quick profit shorting it—but instead, BTC didn’t drop; it rose, bursting upward and liquidating a batch of overconfident people.
However, the bulls can’t be too happy either. Looking at how BTC is pushing higher with such choppy, difficult progress, it probably won’t be able to hold out for long. It’s likely that one day in the dead of night, it will be crushed by a single rate-hike news headline, then reverse and plunge violently.
What’s most heart-wrenching is the major mainstream altcoins. They’ve already been weakened to the point of near-collapse. Even with the Bitcoin rebound, they don’t really follow suit—it's as if they’re just waiting for BTC to finally exhaust itself and crash again, so they can tumble along. Sigh. $SOL $ETH $ZEC

Dave Portnoy’s “zero-and-hold” declaration marks a shift in his identity from a high-profile trader to a passive holder. The Barstool founder is known for frequently taking part in—and sometimes even spearheading—meme-coin projects such as GREED and JAILSTOOL, along with controversial “dumping” behavior. His market moves are often viewed as short-term traffic arbitrage. Recently, he has been deeply entangled in celebrity-token projects like LIBRA, where losses and gains intertwine, highlighting the high-risk leverage nature of celebrity-driven effects in the crypto market.
The abnormal part of his current stance is that he admits he bought Bitcoin at a high of around $100,000 and is already down by several million dollars, yet chooses to abandon his previous short-term style and instead adopt an extreme passive strategy—“sink with the ship.” This is not really a statement of faith in Bitcoin; it’s more like a public surrender of his poor market-timing ability. From an “active harvester” of meme coins to a passive “bag-holder” of Bitcoin, Portnoy’s case reflects a typical trajectory where crypto celebrities fall from being trend-chasers into trend-prisoners.
On July 5, Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy recently said on Fox Business Network’s “Varney & Co.” that even if Bitcoin were to fall to zero, he would not sell his holdings. He told host Stuart Varney, “I’m going to keep holding all the way—if it drops to zero, I still won’t sell,” adding that he would rather “sink with the ship” than repeat the earlier pattern of selling and then watching it surge.
Portnoy also acknowledged that he bought Bitcoin at a high near $100,000 and is currently down by several million dollars. He admitted that with Bitcoin, he “couldn’t have been more wrong”—every time he sold, the price surged; every time he bought, the price fell.
Notably, Portnoy previously racked up many bad records in the MEME coin space. In February 2025, he launched the GREED token on Pump.fun; after buying 35.79% of the supply, he liquidated all at once. The token then crashed 99%, yet he still profited about $258,000. After being criticized, he followed up with GREED2 and JAILSTOOL, and during a livestream he said he “had indeed thought about a rug pull, and I might still be thinking about it.” In addition, he has been tied to the collapse of the LIBRA token backed by Argentine President Milei (buying $4.5 million and later recovering $5 million in compensation), as well as an early SafeMoon lawsuit (settling for $20,000).$BTC

When Waller first chaired an FOMC meeting in June, he established a new style of “less guidance” by signaling policy-path reductions in the statement and choosing not to submit dot plots. This created a vacuum in the market’s understanding of the Fed’s internal decision-making process.
Therefore, the upcoming release of the June meeting minutes has been abnormally magnified in importance. It is no longer a routine record, but the only window through which people can observe the internal debates under Waller and the real disagreements behind them. As questions about reduced information shift, they are turning into heightened pressure for over-interpretation of the minute details within the minutes.
Waller’s reform intent is to reduce “noisy clamor,” but the outcome may be the opposite—less official guidance may force the market to dissect every internal document more meticulously and anxiously, potentially amplifying the noise and volatility in how policy signals transmit.
On July 5, George Gonzalves, U.S. macro strategist for Mitsubishi UFJ Securities Americas, said that Waller’s concise style has made the June meeting minutes carry more weight than usual, offering valuable insight for observing the differing stances among Fed officials. “The minutes will become more important because so far, we don’t know what the Fed is thinking,” Gonzalves said. “Seeing how they debate and what they focus on will be enlightening.”
He added that some investors have questioned Waller’s “hands-off” approach, and many want greater transparency to be restored. Many market participants are not accustomed to reduced information, and there remains a considerable degree of skepticism about how long the Fed can sustain this. For now, we can only try to interpret what’s between the lines.$SOL