SOL Bottom In? USDC Dead, OUSD to $2

Everyone Hates Messi, AI Grift and Why China’s Threatening OpenAI

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Touching Our Mutuals and BTC to 150k

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Robinhood Meme Season and ANOTHER New L1?

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SOL Bottom In? USDC Dead, OUSD to $2

The lads are back.  They discuss World launching a Solana-based prediction market inside Phantom powered by Chainlink and debate improving Solana sentiment, perps progress, and whether meme coins (including Ansem’s “Black Bull” and his reported airdrops) can run again.  They then cover the OpenUSD/Open Standard stablecoin consortium led by Bridge after Stripe’s acquisition, why it could pressure Circle/USDC, and the importance of distribution via partners like Ramp, while noting Tether may be less affected.  The episode also includes sport.fun league standings and a walkthrough of picking squads vs weekly teams, plus FIFA World Cup merch and sponsorship quirks, hydration breaks, and a Bobby Bonilla Day aside.

Trading the World Cup Onchain While Alts Decouple From Bitcoin

Grant, Alex and Lazer are joined by Adam from sports.fun for the usual overnight chaos, Saylor selling Bitcoin and HYPE printing new highs.  Then we fire up the World Cup Predictor on sport.fun, run through the fixtures and lock in who we reckon is actually winning the whole thing.  We're running a watchalong activation across the tournament, so stick around to find out how you can jump in and help pick our team.