Author: Chain Wire

Sheridan, WY, USA, July 15th, 2026, FinanceWire

US traders get a free, fully simulated $1,000 account and a path to a funded account earned on sports-market skill alone; no deposit, no personal capital at risk. 

OddsON went live across the United States today as the first prop trading firm built entirely around sports prediction markets. Traders start with a free, fully simulated $1,000 account and work toward a funded account by proving they can read sports markets consistently — no deposit, nothing of their own on the line. 

Prop trading firms have spent years handing skilled traders outside capital once they prove themselves in a controlled evaluation. That model has lived in equities and forex. It has never been pointed at sports prediction markets — until now. OddsON takes the funded-trader playbook and applies it entirely to sport: pass a two-stage evaluation, potentially earn a funded account, and keep the majority of the profit the trading generates.

The distinction from general prediction markets is deliberate. Those platforms treat sport as one tab among politics, economics, and pop culture. OddsON was built on the opposite premise — that sports deserves its own dedicated venue, not one tab on a general prediction platform. It’s built specifically for people who follow sport closely and want to put that knowledge to work. Every market on the platform is a sports market, and the firm behind it does something no prediction market has done before: it backs the people who trade those markets well.

Evaluation Process

Traders pick a challenge tier and trade a simulated bankroll against live sports markets. Every challenge runs two stages: a Qualifier and a Verification round — each with published risk rules covering maximum stake size, daily loss limits, and overall drawdown. The rounds reward consistent, risk-managed judgment rather than one lucky result. Clear both, and the account converts to a funded one with no profit target and no time limit. Funded traders keep 75% of the potential profit they produce.

Users can start with a free Rookie challenge on a $1,000 simulated bankroll — no cost to begin.

Everything on OddsON is simulated. No trader wagers or risks real money at any stage of a challenge, and payouts to funded traders are performance-based rewards for skill, not winnings from a bet.

Availability

OddsON is available now to traders across the United States for free. Users can sign up, and the free Rookie challenge is open at oddson.co.

About OddsON

OddsON is the first prop trading firm built exclusively for sports prediction markets by Prop Trading and Sports experts. Traders access a simulated bankroll through a one-time entry fee, trade across sports markets, and can earn a funded account by clearing a two-stage evaluation. The firm’s aim is to give people who genuinely understand sport a structured way to trade with real backing — without risking their own capital to prove it. Users can learn more at oddson.co.  

Website: https://www.oddson.co/ 

Contact

Christopher Smith
Pr@oddson.co

Dubai, United Arab emirates, July 15th, 2026, FinanceWire

Expanding the Expo Experience

As preparations continue for Forex Expo Dubai 2026, the event is expanding its attendee experience while welcoming a growing lineup of exhibitors from across the forex and trading industry. 

Confirmed exhibitors include Super Elite sponsors GTCFX, Valetax, Xchief, Funding Pips, and Honor Financial, alongside Elite sponsors EC Markets, TMGM, Metaquotes, JustMarkets, FP Markets, PU Prime, Dprime, Funded Firm, VPFX, Aegeanlabs Software LLC, Eplanet, SGFX, FortressFX, UEXO, Moneta Markets, and CXM.

As the forex and trading landscape evolves, industry events are adapting to changing attendee expectations. Traders, introducing brokers, and business professionals are increasingly seeking practical learning, direct access to industry specialists, and meaningful business engagement. In response, Forex Expo Dubai is introducing dedicated programmes tailored to its key attendee groups.

Personalizing Experiences

Verified traders gain access to dedicated seminar sessions, the Traders Lounge, and Traders Clinic that offers one-on-one guidance from market experts. They can also pre-book meetings ahead of the event and explore exclusive onboarding opportunities from selected exhibitors. 

For Introducing Brokers, the dedicated IB Programme creates opportunities to connect with brokers, compare rebate options, and discuss partnership opportunities through face-to-face meetings. The IB Lounge and dedicated seminar sessions provide additional insights to help IBs strengthen their approach and grow their networks.

Expanding Opportunities for Engagement 

Beyond these dedicated programmes, Forex Expo Dubai will feature private meeting zones for one-to-one business discussions, networking lounges, coffee areas, and interactive experiences throughout the two-day event. Additional side events taking place before and after the expo will further extend opportunities for engagement across the trading community.

“We’ve seen a clear shift in what attendees expect from industry events,” said Niyaz Mohammed, Commercial Director at HQMENA. “People still come to discover new products and meet brokers, but they’re also looking for more focused learning and higher-quality business interactions. These new programmes have been introduced to create dedicated environments where traders and introducing brokers can engage in conversations that are directly relevant to their goals.” 

With an expanded exhibitor lineup and new attendee-focused initiatives, Forex Expo Dubai 2026 is set to offer a more personalised experience for both trading professionals and businesses, reflecting the changing needs of today’s global trading community.

About Forex Expo Dubai

Forex Expo Dubai is one of the region’s leading gatherings for the global online trading and fintech industry, bringing together brokerages, fintech innovators, institutional traders, investors, payment solution providers, IBs, affiliates and online trading technology companies under one roof. The expo serves as a platform for industry dialogue, business networking, technology showcases and market-focused conversations shaping the future of modern finance.

Contact

Commercial Director
Niyaz Mohamed
HQMENA
Sales@hqmena.com

London, United Kingdom, July 15th, 2026, Chainwire

CT3 today announced the transition of its decentralized storage infrastructure to a dedicated Storage Contracts model designed to support continued platform growth, improve infrastructure scalability, and expand storage capacity as demand increases.

The transition follows rapid growth across the CT3 ecosystem, with more than 180,000 unique users having used the platform and more than 500,000 uploads completed. Each upload is linked to an NFT access key, allowing platform activity and network usage to be independently verified on-chain.

Continued growth in demand for ct-3.cloud services has increased pressure on the existing infrastructure. Processing all new uploads through a single main collection and one smart contract may reduce scaling flexibility and make storage capacity more difficult to manage as network activity expands.

Under the new architecture, new uploads will be distributed across dedicated Storage Contracts rather than a single main contract. Each Storage Contract is linked to a fixed amount of storage capacity and operates as an independent infrastructure segment with its own capacity, utilization level, and on-chain statistics.

The new model is intended to distribute workloads across multiple smart contracts, improve the transparency and measurement of resource utilization, and support the deployment of additional storage capacity as demand grows. Participants may finance the deployment of new Storage Contracts and the addition of storage capacity. The allocated capacity is used to store files uploaded through ct-3.cloud, while the resulting profit is shared between CT3 and the participant who financed the infrastructure expansion.

Infrastructure Segmentation

Previously, CT3 keys were issued primarily through the main collection and a single contract flow. As the platform expanded, this model became less flexible for handling different categories of data.

Storage Contracts divide the infrastructure into separate segments. Each segment:

• operates through its own smart contract;
• is linked to a specific amount of storage capacity;
• can serve a particular category of files;
• allows capacity utilization and workload to be measured independently;
• reduces pressure on the main NFT key issuance process.

This separation makes the infrastructure more resilient and allows individual areas of the platform to scale without rebuilding the entire system.

How the Allocated Storage Capacity is Used

Each Storage Contract is linked to a defined amount of capacity within the CT3 network. Once activated, the corresponding storage space is supplied by network nodes and used to store data uploaded through ct-3.cloud.

The allocated capacity may be used for:

• standard user files;
• corporate archives;
• automatic backups;
• long-term datasets;
• future CT3 products and applications.

Larger contracts can accommodate heavier files and more substantial flows of corporate or backup data. This allows the network to direct workloads to infrastructure segments with sufficient available capacity.

Storage Contract Economics

The commercial model behind Storage Contracts is based on the real use of CT3 infrastructure. The platform acquires storage capacity from node operators and provides it to ct-3.cloud customers at the market price of the storage service.

A participant finances the deployment of a new Storage Contract and the expansion of the network’s available capacity. Once launched, this capacity is used to store personal and corporate data, while the generated profit is distributed between the investor and CT3.

The financial performance of each contract depends on two main factors:

• the actual utilization of the allocated capacity;
• the margin between the cost of acquiring storage capacity and the price charged to end users.

Storage Contracts therefore allow participants to take part in the growth of CT3 infrastructure and potentially earn income linked to real demand for storage services. The more actively the allocated capacity is used, the greater the contract’s potential result.

On-chain transparency

The operation of each Storage Contract can be verified through the blockchain. Files stored within the allocated capacity are represented by NFT keys containing storage-related metadata.

The combined size of the files associated with these keys can be compared with the utilization figure displayed for the contract. Through the smart contract address, an investor can verify issued NFTs, collection activity, and the actual use of the capacity they helped finance.

This model makes it possible to independently verify:

• the number of keys created;
• the volume of stored data;
• utilization of the allocated capacity;
• activity within a specific Storage Contract;
• the relationship between infrastructure usage and profit generation.

For ct-3.cloud users, the experience remains unchanged: both existing and new NFT keys continue to be supported, and the transition to the new architecture requires no additional action.

About CT3

CT3 is developing a decentralized data storage infrastructure that combines independent nodes, the ct-3.cloud interface, NFT access keys, and blockchain verification.

Users upload files through ct-3.cloud, after which the data is distributed across network nodes. An NFT key is created for every stored object, confirming access rights and containing the relevant storage metadata.

Within this model, nodes provide physical storage capacity, CT3 manages data distribution and access, while individual and corporate users generate demand for storage services.

As the number of users and uploads increases, the network must continuously expand its available capacity. At certain times, demand growth may outpace the addition of new capacity from node operators. Storage Contracts allow CT3 to add new resources in a structured way and allocate them to specific areas of use.

Contact

CMO
Rodrigo Pereira
CT3
contact@ct-3.ltd

Victoria, Seychelles, July 14th, 2026, Chainwire

MEXC, a pioneer in 0-fee digital asset trading, today released its Ecosystem & Growth Report for the second quarter of 2026. In Q1, users mostly bought gold and other hedges against macro risk. In Q2, their attention turned to AI projects and US stocks, and MEXC spent the quarter building products for exactly that demand.

Users can now back a company before its IPO, trade stock futures on it, hold tokenized shares, and buy real US stocks and ETFs, all inside one MEXC account. Every piece of that path launched or grew during the quarter.

SpaceX was still a private company when MEXC ran two SPACEX(PRE) subscription rounds. More than 74,000 entries put over 173 million USDT into them, and demand for the second round reached more than 30 times the amount on offer. That demand mirrors a wider market trend: CoinGecko reports that tokenized pre-IPO trading volume surged 1,060%, with SpaceX accounting for the largest share of activity.

The company then completed the largest IPO on record on June 12. Users kept trading it on MEXC after the listing, and SpaceX perpetual futures collected more than 7.1 billion USDT in volume in the weeks that followed. One name went from private to public within a quarter, and users traded at every stage.

RealStocks launched on June 1 and added the last piece, real shares. Eligible users buy actual US stocks and ETFs through a licensed securities broker partner, and the shelf covers more than 7,000 names.

More than 120,000 users signed up in the first month, and over half of the new accounts moved on to a first deposit. By June 18, the product had settled dividends on 34 stocks and ETFs, the kind of payout only real share ownership carries.

Micron’s June earnings lifted trading volume in its MEXC futures by approximately 142% in a single day. The activity spilled into related AI memory names, SanDisk, SK hynix, and a DRAM ETF. One earnings report moved a whole supply chain on the platform, because users now trade US market news the moment it breaks.

“My first quarter as CEO had one goal, and that was to move MEXC from a crypto exchange toward a gateway for every market users care about,” said Vugar Usi, CEO of MEXC. “Q2 put real numbers behind the word gateway, from Pre-IPO demand to actual dividend payouts.”

The quarter’s ten biggest new-token gainers averaged +4,956%, and six of the ten were AI agent projects. Only one meme coin made the list, a clear reversal of the first quarter, when memes ran the gain rankings.

The AI winners build practical systems. They settle transactions between agents, place trades for retail users, and verify identities, so the money went to projects that already do that work. The most-traded list leaned the same way, with four AI and infrastructure names to three meme names.

During the quarter, MEXC appointed Vugar Usi as Chief Executive Officer and marked its 8th anniversary with a brand upgrade built on two promises: 0 Fees and Infinite Opportunities. The upgrade marks the company’s move from a traditional exchange toward a universal gateway for global markets.

A partnership brought the USD1 stablecoin into MEXC’s trading and product suite, and the first USD1 event drew more than 161,000 participants, with new users alone pushing $2.4 billion through futures. A TradingView integration now sends perpetual futures orders straight from the chart, so users move from analysis to execution without a tab change.

The Prediction Market added a Combo feature on June 9, which folds several event predictions into a single position. Average daily volume in the Prediction Market grew more than 6,700% from early to late June, and daily users rose more than 3,200%.

The June Proof of Reserves put the average reserve ratio at 156.5%, which means the platform holds more assets than users have deposited, with Bitcoin backed at 269%. Between May and June, the risk team identified 4,394 illicit networks; a separate intervention effort blocked roughly 303,000 USDT in suspected fraudulent transfers.

The full Q2 report, with the complete token tables, product data, and community programs, is available here.

About MEXC

MEXC is the world’s fastest-growing cryptocurrency exchange, trusted by more than 40 million users across 170+ markets. Built on a user-first philosophy, MEXC offers industry-leading 0-fee trading and access to over 3,000 digital assets. As the Gateway to Infinite Opportunities, MEXC provides a single platform where users can easily trade cryptocurrencies alongside tokenized assets, including stocks, ETFs, commodities, and precious metals.

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MEXC PR team
media@mexc.com

San Salvador, El Salvador, July 14th, 2026, FinanceWire

B2BINPAY, a crypto payment processing solution for merchants, enterprises, and financial platforms, today announced the availability of version 26.2.4. Continuing the operator-focused direction set earlier this year, the release targets three areas where payment operations frequently lose time and user trust. They include payouts that fail because of insufficient balances, uncertainty while deposits await confirmation, and the manual work behind reconciliation and audits.

Preventing Failed Payouts and Deposit Uncertainty

The most significant addition in version 26.2.4 is per-wallet low-balance notifications. Operators can now set a threshold for each wallet in its native currency. When the available balance falls below the level, the system sends a notification. So, it gives the operator time to top it up before a withdrawal fails.

The feature addresses a problem when an end user requests a withdrawal, but the operational wallet has quietly run dry. With individual thresholds in place, the operator can see the shortfall before the user does.

B2BINPAY now also sends a callback as soon as an incoming transaction is detected on the blockchain. Platforms can immediately tell payers that their payment has been seen and is awaiting network confirmation rather than appearing lost or stuck.

Recovery from user errors has also been simplified. When a deposit sent through the wrong network is automatically re-created on the correct one, the resulting event now links directly to the original deposit. This way, operators no longer need to compare callback and tracking IDs manually to reconstruct what happened.

Greater Audit Visibility and Enhanced Workflows

For white-label clients running branded payment platforms on B2BINPAY infrastructure, version 26.2.4 expands the Admin UI with read-only pages for orders, payouts, blockchain wallets, global wallet balance history, and staking. These pages provide broader visibility into operations and balances without the risk of data being changed.

Audit logs can now be filtered by event type, allowing reviewers to isolate events such as “Payouts blocked” or “Password changed” across brand, group, user, and legal-entity logs. Exported Transfers and Wallets reports also gain Owner ID and Legal Entity Name columns.

Transfers in the Dealing section now display USD-normalised volumes, removing the manual exchange-rate calculations previously required for reconciliation.

The company is also continuing to align the new Admin UI with its existing Client UI. Both interfaces now follow the same design system and interaction patterns, allowing operators familiar with the client-side platform to use the admin panel without additional retraining.

“When a payout fails because an operational wallet has run dry, the end user sees that the platform didn’t deliver their money, which undermines trust,” said Vitaliy Shtyrkin, COO of B2BINPAY. “We understand what a single unprocessed withdrawal can do to a company’s reputation at the moment it happens. That’s why we build controls that help operators prevent the problem and not deal with the users’ frustration after the fact.”

Version 26.2.4 is already available to all B2BINPAY clients. Full release notes are available in the client documentation.

About B2BINPAY

B2BINPAY is a crypto payment processing solution for merchants, enterprises, and financial platforms. The company acts as an infrastructure bridge, reducing payment friction and protecting margins by automating the flow of funds from crypto to fiat. B2BINPAY has processed more than $5.1 billion in transactions, supports USDT and USDC across 10 major blockchains, and works with 350+ cryptocurrencies across its ecosystem.

Contact

B2BINPAY
marketing@b2inpay.com