Rothera’s Prediction Market Volume Surges on World Cup Trading

Robinhood-backed prediction market Rothera sees 93x weekly volume surge

Dragonfly partner Omar cited Rothera daily data showing the prediction market, backed by Robinhood and Susquehanna, traded approximately 109 million contracts today with around ＄39 million in notional volume. This represents a roughly 40x week-over-week increase in contract count and 93x surge in dollar volume. Omar noted that nearly all trading activity is concentrated in sports categories, with about 99.8% of today's volume coming from World Cup-related contracts.

Rothera's notional trading volume reached ＄142 million on June 21, approaching Polymarket US's ＄167 million. If Rothera surpasses Polymarket US, only Kalshi and Polymarket International would have higher volumes. Rothera is a prediction market that launched approximately one month ago.

Tether announces gradual shutdown of aUSDT

Tether announced it will phase out Alloy by Tether and aUSDT after evaluating user activity, market demand, and company priorities, deciding to focus resources on core products with stronger demand and deeper liquidity like XAUT. Effective immediately, the Alloy by Tether interface will no longer support opening new positions or minting new aUSDT.

Existing users can still return aUSDT and retrieve their XAUT over the next three months. Starting September 17, 2026, users with unreturned aUSDT will no longer be able to retrieve their XAUT through the platform.

Standard Chartered sees UNI reaching ＄100 by 2030 amid RWA tokenization

Standard Chartered's head of digital assets research Geoff Kendrick stated that as Wall Street drives real-world asset (RWA) tokenization and migration on-chain, Uniswap, as a decentralized trading protocol, stands to benefit from the expansion of on-chain asset scale. The bank expects UNI price to reach ＄100 by 2030, with a target of ＄6.5 by end-2026.

According to DeFiLlama data, Uniswap has facilitated over ＄3.7 trillion in cumulative trading volume since launching in 2018, generating approximately ＄5.6 billion in protocol fee revenue. Standard Chartered projects that by 2030, assets deposited and staked in DeFi protocols will grow to ＄2.7 trillion, driving growth in Uniswap's liquidity pools.

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