If you’ve got money locked up on-chain and an itch to gamble with it in a new way, has the World Series of Poker got good news for you. The WSOP announced it will integrate solana’s blockchain technology into the tournament through crypto payments firm MoonPay.

At its big summer event, players will have the option to buy into tournaments using crypto directly for the first time. In the WSOP’s Bahamas event in December, winners will be able to receive settlements in stablecoins on solana, reducing friction with international settlements.

“Solana’s ecosystem, like the WSOP, constantly challenges conventions and remains laser-focused on the consumer experience,” WSOP CEO Ty Stewart said in a statement. “Solana’s speed and efficiency mirror the fast-paced energy of our tournaments, and we are excited to showcase their technology to our global audience.”

The price of solana dipped slightly today, but has dropped more than 48% in 2026, data from CoinMarketCap shows.

Solana has been a popular network, in part from meme coin trading over the past two years, involving viral animal sensations as well as political figures such as President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump as well as Argentine President Javier Milei.

Country-themed restaurant chain Cracker Barrel is soaring on Wednesday, on pace for its best trading day ever following an earnings beat on Tuesday afternoon.

The chain, known for its rocking chairs, little peg games, and various memorabilia featuring the American flag/Route 66/wagon wheels, reported Q3 sales of $797.4 million, beating Wall Street expectations of $776.7 million. It posted adjusted earnings of $0.29 per share, compared to the $0.48 per-share loss expected by analysts polled by FactSet.

Cracker Barrel also hiked its fiscal year revenue forecast to between $3.27 billion and $3.3 billion, up from $3.24 billion to $3.27 billion.

Those results have propelled the stock to gains of more than 26% on Wednesday, putting the chain on track to surpass its previous highest daily market gain of 25% in November 2008. Traders are pouring into the stock, with trading volumes up more than 6x their 30-day average.

As of Wednesday morning, Cracker Barrel shares are now up more than 80% in 2026.

Oscar Health shares surged Wednesday, fueled by an upgrade from Barclays after the company reiterated its full-year guidance earlier this week.

The stock has rallied lately, up about 40% from its June 3 closing price and pushing to its highest levels since the hype days just after its IPO in March of 2021.

Barclays upgraded the insurer to “overweight” from “equal-weight” and raised its price target to $35 from $30, according to Investing.com. Analysts cited the company’s focused participation in the fast-growing Affordable Care Act market as an avenue for potential growth.

On Monday at a Goldman Sachs healthcare conference, Oscar reassured investors by reaffirming the company’s full-year 2026 financial guidance, according to a company filing.

The recent momentum comes after Oscar reported strong Q1 results in May. The company reported revenue of $4.65 billion, up from $3 billion for the first quarter of 2025, driven by higher membership and rate increases.

Amazon has landed a $17.5 billion line of credit arranged by Citibank, according to a new SEC filing.

While the filing says the money is for “general corporate purposes,” the company is clearly on a global borrowing spree to fund its massive AI infrastructure investments, with $200 billion in planned capex this year. For perspective, that budget is larger than the entire GDP of most countries. This giant credit line comes shortly after Amazon shattered the record for issuance in Canada’s “maple bond” market.

The spending is so aggressive that credit rating agency S&P recently warned Amazon’s “leverage will increase substantially” and it will likely report negative free operating cash flow over the next two years to support the data center build-out. Yet, Amazon is rushing to borrow anyway, hoping to service a massive $364 billion cloud backlog.

Inflation ticked up in May, but the key core inflation metric came in cooler than economists had expected, according to the most recent reading by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, released on Wednesday.

Consumer prices rose 0.5% month over month, with core inflation (which strips out volatile food and energy prices) rising 0.2%, slightly cooler than the 0.3% economists were expecting.

Year over year, prices increased 4.2%, the highest in three years, reflecting higher energy prices caused by the war in Iran. Stripping out food and energy, prices rose 2.9%. Both figures are right in line with what economists were penciling in.

S&P 500 Index futures, which had fallen earlier this morning amid escalating tensions in Iran, trimmed some of their losses after the report.

Expectations across various Fed-related prediction markets were largely unchanged following the report. The inflation report, paired with a surprisingly strong jobs report last week, seemed to solidify expectations that the Federal Reserve will keep rates steady at its meeting next week.

“The in-line headline CPI and subdued core inflation data give the Fed some breathing room to remain patient as the energy supply shock plays out,” Angelo Kourkafas, a strategist at Edward Jones, said in a statement.

Chewy shares whipsawed in premarket trading after the online pet retailer reported Q1 results that slightly surpassed earnings expectations and narrowly beat revenue estimates.

Key numbers:

• Net sales of $3.36 billion (compared to analyst estimates of $3.35 billion).

• Adjusted earnings per share of $0.43 (estimate: $0.41).

Just a few weeks ago, Chewy CEO Sumit Singh, while speaking at the JPMorgan Technology, Media & Communications Conference in late May, said that US consumers appear more financially stretched than they were at the start of 2026, Barron’s reported.

“Our first quarter results demonstrate the resilience of our business model and the strength of our execution, despite a more dynamic consumer backdrop,” Singh said in a statement.

Chewy did not issue a forward guidance update or a revised full-year outlook in its initial press release. Its stock has dropped roughly 39% year to date.

The company’s adjusted EBITDA rose 31.3% to $253.1 million. Gross margin improved 50 basis points year over year to 30.1%.

Chewy added nearly 200,000 net active customers in the quarter, expanding its total active user base to 21.5 million customers, a 3.6% year-over-year increase.