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Brazil’s B3 Eyes Election Bets as It Enters Prediction Markets
Brazil’s B3 is entering prediction markets with new event contracts on assets and possibly elections, testing Brazil’s regulatory gray zone while targeting professional investors ahead of October’s presidential vote.
Kalshi, Polymarket Founders Back New Prediction Market VC Fund
A new $35 million venture fund, 5c(c) Capital, backed by prediction-market rivals Kalshi and Polymarket and top VCs, signals growing institutional confidence in regulated betting exchanges.
Polymarket’s Latest Pop-Up Is a Sports Bar for Watching the News
Prediction platform Polymarket is courting Washington with a pop-up “Situation Room” bar even as US lawmakers and regulators move to clamp down on the controversial betting industry.
How ‘Irrelevant’ Prediction Market Detail Led to Death Threats
Fast-growing prediction markets are exposing a core weakness as disputed contracts and after-the-fact trading create incentives to distort information and intimidate reporters.
Polymarket Five-Minute Bets Capture ‘Addictive’ Crypto Craze
Ultra-short-term crypto prediction markets are booming as five-minute bets surge in volume, concentrating profits among algorithmic traders and raising new speed and fairness concerns.
Why Prediction Market?
Prediction markets are not just platforms for trading; they are real-time engines of collective intelligence. Unlike traditional static reports or polls, a prediction market is a continuous forecasting model where probabilities shift instantly as new information surfaces. When opinions are priced, the future stops being a guess and becomes
Women Wanted: Kalshi Pushes to Expand Far Beyond Sport Bets
Prediction market platform Kalshi is pushing beyond male-dominated sports betting to court women with pop culture and politics wagers, aiming to broaden growth and reduce legal vulnerability.
Prediction market Kalshi seeks US approval to offer margin trades
Prediction market operator Kalshi is seeking US regulatory approval to allow margin trading on its platform, as it seeks to lure institutional investors with more sophisticated financial contracts. Kalshi has held meetings with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission over several months in its effort to win approval, according to people
Prediction Markets Go From Fringe to Frenzy as Wall Street, Silicon Valley Pile In
The intimate meal, 60 floors above New York’s financial district, brought together a pillar of the Wall Street establishment and a young crypto upstart. The host, billionaire septuagenarian Jeffrey Sprecher, CEO of Intercontinental Exchange Inc., the owner of the New York Stock Exchange, arrived in a suit. His guest,
