FIFA Rivals, the high-energy mobile football game from FIFA and Mythical Games, has entered into a multi-year partnership with Bundesliga club Borussia Dortmund, bringing the iconic German side into its fast-growing digital arena.

The collaboration marks FIFA Rivals’ first official club partnership and a major step in the game’s expansion across Europe. It also introduces new ways for fans around the world to engage with Dortmund, both in-game and in real life.

As part of the 2025/26 season rollout, fans and players can look forward to:

• Dortmund stars in-game: Players including Karim Adeyemi, Serhou Guirassy, Nico Schlotterbeck, Gregor Kobel, Jobe Bellingham, Yan Couto, and Daniel Svensson will feature as playable characters.

• Official collectibles: BVB kits will be available in FIFA Rivals starting in August.

• Fan rewards and giveaways: Challenges and events offering digital BVB items, matchday tickets, and official merchandise.

• Real-world activations: Upcoming events with Borussia Dortmund, including at the club’s FanWelt.

To kick off the partnership, FIFA Rivals is running a BVB Launch Giveaway Week from August 18–24. During this time, all players can log in daily to receive a free Borussia Dortmund player card pack featuring select first-team stars. A new official BVB emblem will also be available, with additional limited-edition emblems offering stat boosts in the in-game store.

“This partnership with Borussia Dortmund is a strategic step in expanding FIFA Rivals’ global footprint and deepening our engagement within the European football ecosystem,” said Jung Suh, Chief Business Officer at Mythical Games. “BVB’s global brand, forward-thinking approach, and commitment to fan experience make them an ideal partner as we continue to bridge the worlds of interactive entertainment and sport.”

Carsten Cramer, Managing Director of Borussia Dortmund, added: “It creates a unique bridge between the digital and real worlds, enabling us to connect with our fans around the world in innovative ways. Borussia Dortmund stands for passion, community, and innovation—values that align perfectly with this project.”

About Mythical Games

Acknowledged by Fast Company’s World Changing Ideas 2021 and named one of Forbes’ Best Startup Employers in 2024, Mythical Games is a next-generation studio focused on player ownership and digital economies. The team has worked on major franchises such as Call of Duty, World of Warcraft, Diablo, Overwatch, Magic: The Gathering, Madden NFL, Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery, Marvel Strike Force, Modern Warfare 3, and Skylanders. Its own titles, Blankos Block Party and NFL Rivals, are already played by millions of fans worldwide, pioneering new ways to securely trade and engage with digital game assets.

About Borussia Dortmund

Borussia Dortmund is one of Germany’s most storied football clubs, founded in 1909 and boasting over 10 million domestic fans, along with a rapidly growing international following. The club has won eight Bundesliga titles, five DFB-Pokals, and in 1966 became the first German side to win a European trophy. Dortmund went on to lift the UEFA Champions League and the Intercontinental Cup in 1997. With annual revenues exceeding €500 million, BVB is today not only one of Europe’s most successful clubs on the pitch but also among its strongest commercially.

The latest Mission features Owners Club by Invincible GG, a competitive horse racing game that includes live races with real stakes, daily events, horse training, skill upgrades, and a system where progress is based on performance.

Players can also join seasonal competitions with prize pools that can reach $50,000.

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The Invincible Token ($IGGT) is used for rewards, in-game bets, and purchasing items on the marketplace. It gives players access to special tournaments, Invincible Horse upgrades and breeding, non-fungible token (NFT) bundles, and is destined to share the economy across Invincible GG’s future games.

By completing all rounds in the Mission, users can earn up to 2,500 Bits. Additionally, those who participate before August 24, 2025, will be eligible for extra rewards through the Lucky Draw.

To qualify for the Lucky Draw, users must complete all Mission rounds, download Owners Club, register an account, win a public race at Maidenvale, and connect their wallet to the Owners Club website.

Notably, users must provide the email they used to register with Owners Club in the final round of the Mission.

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BitDegree previously launched a Mission featuring the crypto exchange KCEX, where users could earn up to 1,600 Bits and additional rewards.

Solana-based NFT project Meatbags is launching a $1.4 million crowdfunding campaign to purchase a Cold War-era nuclear bunker in Rutland, England. The doomsday-themed digital collectible project, led by the pseudonymous team Dead Bruv, plans to sell 100,000 NFTs at $14 each to fund acquisition and renovation of the historic military installation through a decentralized governance model.

Key details:

• Meatbags will sell 100,000 NFTs at $14 each, with 10,000 reserved for existing holders via a 1:1 airdrop.

• The bunker auction is scheduled for April 24 with a guide price of £650,000 (~$862,257).

• NFT holders will join the “Billionaire Bunker Club” DAO to vote on future uses of the property.

• The 1.4-acre site features a 1960s British Royal Observer Corps bunker.

• If the auction bid fails, payment options include Solana Pay and credit cards, with a refund policy.

The #buythebunker Campaign Details

The Meatbags project has set an ambitious goal of raising $1.4 million through their NFT sale running from April 21 to April 24. Each “land deed” NFT costs $14, creating a pool of funds to cover the bunker’s purchase price, renovation costs, and ongoing operational expenses.

Existing Meatbags holders will receive special treatment, with 10,000 NFTs reserved for a 1:1 airdrop. At the same time, the remaining 90,000 tokens will be available to the public. The sale timing aligns with the bunker’s auction date of April 24.

The project includes flexible payment options through Solana Pay or credit cards. he team has committed to providing refunds within six months if their auction bid fails. Any excess funds raised beyond the purchase price will be allocated through DAO votes to fund future development.

Source: SDL Property Auctions

From Military Installation to NFT-Owned Property

The target property is no ordinary real estate acquisition. This Cold War relic is a 1.4-acre site featuring a 1960s British Royal Observer Corps bunker and a decommissioned reservoir. Built in 1960 and decommissioned in 1968, it was one of 1,500 nuclear monitoring posts across the UK designed to detect nuclear bursts and radiation during the Cold War.

A key selling point is that planning permission has already been approved for converting the facility into a luxury residence with cathedral-style ceilings and panoramic views. The structure’s 30-inch-thick concrete walls provide both historical significance and practical durability.

The property is currently listed by SDL Property Auctions with a guide price of £650,000. The auction is scheduled for April 24 – creating urgency for the crowdfunding campaign to reach its goals.

The Billionaire Bunker Club: DAO Governance Structure

Purchasers of the NFTs won’t just be funding the acquisition – they’ll have a say in what happens next. NFT holders will automatically gain membership to the “Billionaire Bunker Club,” a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) with voting rights on the bunker’s future purpose.

The community has already begun floating creative ideas for the space, including:

• A “Doomsday DJ” nightclub

• An apocalyptic-themed Airbnb rental

• A premium survivalist retreat

• A members-only resort for NFT holders

If it all comes together, this could be one of the most interesting examples of how blockchain tech can be used to own something real.

Crypto Crowdfunding Evolution

The Meatbags project follows in the footsteps of previous crypto-driven crowdfunding initiatives but with key differences.

In 2021, ConstitutionDAO raised an impressive $47 million in an unsuccessful bid to purchase a copy of the U.S. Constitution. More successfully, LinksDAO acquired a Scottish golf club in 2023.

What sets the Meatbags campaign apart is its focus on a physical infrastructure asset with pre-approved redevelopment plans, creating clearer utility for NFT holders.

​Sam’s Club, an American warehouse supermarket chain owned by U.S. retail giant Walmart, is investigating claims of a Clop ransomware breach.

The Walmart division operates over 600 warehouse clubs with millions of members across the United States and Puerto Rico and almost 200 additional locations in Mexico and China.

Sam’s Club has over 2.3 million employees and reported a total revenue of $84.3 billion for the fiscal year ending January 31, 2023.

“We are aware of reports regarding a potential security incident and are actively investigating the matter,” a Sam’s Club spokesperson told BleepingComputer. “Protecting the privacy and security of our members’ information is a top priority at Sam’s Club. We take these concerns seriously and will communicate further as appropriate.”

While the company didn’t provide additional details regarding this ongoing investigation, the Clop ransomware gang added a new Sam’s Club entry to its dark web leak site on Friday.

The cybercrime group has yet to publish any proof of the breach, and so far, the threat actors only said on their leak site that the Arkansas wholesaler “doesn’t care about its customers, it ignored their security.”

​Clop’s claims of a Sam’s Club breach come after the ransomware gang also started extorting dozens of victims in January, breached in a massive wave of data theft attacks targeting a zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2024-50623) in Cleo secure file transfer software patched in October.

While it’s currently unknown how many companies were breached in the Cleo zero-day attacks, Cleo claims its products are used by over 4,000 organizations worldwide.

Arizona-based Western Alliance Bank, one of many companies added to Clop’s leak site in January, notified nearly 22,000 customers last week that their personal information was stolen in October after exploiting a vulnerability in third-party secure file transfer software.

The Clop ransomware gang was previously linked to other data theft campaigns targeting zero-day flaws in Accellion FTA, MOVEit Transfer, and GoAnywhere MFT.

This isn’t the first security incident that impacted Sam’s Club customers in recent years. In October 2020, Sam’s Club notified some customers that their accounts were compromised in credential stuffing attacks and automatically reset their SamsClub.com passwords.

“This was not a breach of our systems, but rather a case of these parties obtaining user names and passwords from phishing campaigns, planting malware or breaches at other companies,” a Sam’s Club spokesperson told BleepingComputer at the time. “We have reset passwords for these accounts and are taking additional measures to protect the accounts from fraudulent activity.”

The U.S. economy has produced the world’s most valuable companies for more than a century. United States Steel became the first $1 billion company in 1901, and 117 years later in 2018, Apple became the first enterprise to achieve a valuation of $1 trillion.

Apple remains the world’s largest company with a market capitalization of $3.3 trillion. But since 2018, several other American organizations have joined it in the trillion-dollar club, including Microsoft, Nvidia, Amazon, Alphabet, Meta Platforms, and Berkshire Hathaway. Tesla and Broadcom were also members until they recently suffered sharp declines in their stock prices.

I think one more company has the potential to cross the $1 trillion milestone in the coming years. Oracle (ORCL 1.09%) operates some of the best data center infrastructure for artificial intelligence (AI) development, and management’s guidance suggests this part of its business could grow tenfold over the long term.

Oracle is valued at $403 billion as of this writing, so investors who buy the stock today could earn a whopping 148% gain if it does join the $1 trillion club.

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Demand for AI data centers is through the roof

There are two key phases involved in developing an AI model: The training phase is when a developer feeds the model mountains of data for it to learn from, and the inference phase is when the model accepts inputs from users and generates responses (like when you interact with a chatbot). Both require a substantial amount of computing power, and most developers source it from companies like Oracle.

Oracle operates some of the best AI data centers in the world. They are fitted with state-of-the-art graphics processing units (GPUs) from leading suppliers like Nvidia and Advanced Micro Devices, which are chips specifically designed to handle AI workloads. In fact, Oracle is currently building a cluster of 64,000 Nvidia Blackwell GB200 GPUs — not only is that the most powerful chip in the industry right now, but this will also be one of the largest clusters on offer by any data center operator.

When developers have access to more chips, they can process more data, more quickly, and thus deploy much “smarter” AI models. But scale isn’t Oracle’s only advantage, because its proprietary random direct memory access (RDMA) networking technology allows data to move from one point to another much faster than traditional Ethernet networks. Since developers typically pay for computing capacity by the minute, this can result in significant cost savings.

Oracle opened its 101st data center cloud region during its fiscal 2025 third quarter (ended on Feb. 28), but demand continued to significantly outstrip supply. In fact, chairman Larry Ellison said GPU usage for AI training purposes alone has soared by a staggering 244% over the last 12 months, and the company is also seeing “enormous” demand for inference workloads.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang thinks next-generation AI reasoning models, which spend more time “thinking” before rendering responses, will consume 100 times more computing power than their predecessors. As a result, demand for data center capacity for inference workloads is only just heating up, so it’s no surprise Oracle wants to grow its footprint to between 1,000 and 2,000 cloud regions over the long term.

In other words, Oracle could eventually have over 10 times more data centers in operation than it does today.

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure revenue is soaring

Oracle generated $14.1 billion in total revenue during the fiscal 2025 third quarter, but the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) segment (which is where the company accounts for its AI data centers) represented just $2.7 billion of that figure.

However, while Oracle’s total revenue increased by just 6% year over year, OCI revenue soared by 49%, making it the fastest-growing part of the entire organization by a wide margin. The OCI business would be growing even faster if it had enough data centers to meet demand, which is why the company expects revenue growth to significantly accelerate as more capacity comes online.

Oracle CEO Safra Catz expects OCI revenue to increase by more than 50% for the fiscal 2025 full year (ending May 31), with an even faster growth rate in the cards for fiscal 2026.

To put a fine point on Oracle’s future potential, the company’s remaining performance obligations (RPOs) soared by 63% to a record high of $130 billion (across all business segments) during the third quarter. RPOs are like an order backlog that is expected to convert into revenue in the future, and Larry Ellison said demand for capacity for AI training and inference workloads were big drivers of the Q3 surge.

Oracle’s path to the $1 trillion club

Oracle generated $4.26 in earnings per share (EPS) over the last four quarters, which places its stock at a price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio of 33.8. That is roughly on par with the valuations of other AI cloud companies like Microsoft and Amazon, so the stock isn’t necessarily cheap, nor is it expensive:

PE Ratio data by YCharts

However, Wall Street’s consensus estimate (provided by Yahoo!) suggests Oracle could deliver $6.78 in EPS during fiscal 2026 (which begins in June 2025). That places its stock at a forward P/E ratio of just 21.1, implying it would have to rise by 59% over the next year or so just to maintain its current P/E ratio of 33.8.

If that scenario plays out, it would lift Oracle’s valuation to $640 billion. From there, the company could reach the $1 trillion club within five years if it grows its EPS by just 9.3% annually. I think that is very achievable for two reasons: First, the company’s estimated EPS for fiscal 2026 represents growth of 13%, and second, management is forecasting accelerating revenue growth, led by the OCI business.

Oracle’s data centers rely heavily on automation, which reduces labor and other operating costs. As a result, the company anticipates rising profit margins as the OCI business continues to scale up, which will boost its EPS overall. Remember, Oracle plans to grow its data center footprint more than tenfold from here, which could drive explosive earnings growth over the long term.

Therefore, I think Oracle has a clear path to joining the $1 trillion club in the coming years, and its stock could be a great addition to any diversified portfolio.

Good Vibes Club (GVC), an art-focused NFT collection created by the award-winning animation studio Toast, has officially sold out ahead of its much-anticipated reveal on March 13 at 12PM ET. The collection, which minted on March 11 on Ethereum, consists of 6,969 meticulously crafted 3D PFPs.

Developed over three years, GVC has positioned itself as a premium brand within the NFT space, prioritising high-quality visuals and artistic curation.

With minting complete, attention now shifts to the upcoming reveal, where holders will see the unique traits and attributes of their NFTs. Meanwhile, secondary market activity continues to gain momentum, with GVC NFTs now available for trading on OpenSea, Magic Eden, and Blur.

What is Good Vibes Club NFT Collection?

Good Vibes Club is a high-end digital art project dedicated to setting a new standard in the NFT space. Created by Toast, a renowned animation studio that has worked with major brands such as Meta, Google, Apple, Visa, Amex, Oreo, and Microsoft, the project blends cutting-edge 3D animation with web3 innovation.

The collection was in development for over three years, with the team rendering 25,000 images, crafting 11,000 unique 3D objects, and designing over 700 traits to ensure each NFT maintains a curated and distinctive feel. According to the team, every detail—including colour groupings, materials, and silhouette diversity—was meticulously planned to enhance the visual quality and uniqueness of the collection.

In addition to the main collection, GVC has introduced three ultra-rare “Honorary Sculptures,” which grant holders a 1:1 custom honorary PFP created live on stream. These honorary NFTs will be featured in SuperRare’s official collection, adding another layer of exclusivity to the project.

What’s next for Good Vibes Club?

With the collection officially minted, the next major event for Good Vibes Club is the reveal on March 13, when collectors will discover the full details of their NFTs. Post-reveal, trading activity is expected to increase as buyers assess rarity traits and visual appeal.

Beyond the PFP collection, the team has teased the development of “Vibetown,” a digital world where GVC characters will come to life through animation. Whilst details remain limited, the team describes Vibetown as a place where “it’s always sunny, it never gets below 75°F” with “some funky beats bumpin’ in the streets.”

As of writing, the floor price for GVC stands at approximately 0.14 $ETH ($270), with sustained demand on secondary marketplaces.