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Binance's CZ Will Spend Less Than a Year in Prison, Polymarket Traders Bet
29.4.2024
Also, the CFTC wants to bar Americans from betting on elections – even though it's already illegal in most U.S. states
Polymarket Odds Say Columbia University President Will Keep Job
22.4.2024
Continuing pro-Palestine protests won't lead to Minouche Shafik having a fate similar to Claudine Gay, who was recently forced to resign as Harvard's president, the prediction market signals. Plus: Kalshi bettors don't think Taylor Swift will break her record
Which Crypto Projects Will Airdrop Next? Prediction Markets Are Placing Bets
8.4.2024
Eigenlayer has a 75% chance of sending users free tokens by June 30, the odds on Polymarket signal. Plus: Kalshi lands a big Wall Street account
Who Will Trump Pick for Veep? Polymarket Gives Tim Scott Best Odds: Prediction Markets
1.4.2024
Plus: Free money? "Democrat wins New York" contract trades at 90 cents on the dollar
How to Design Better On-Chain Governance
27.3.2024
An introduction to Futarchy and combinatorial prediction markets
How Many Years Will SBF Get? Jury's Out on Betting Platform Polymarket
25.3.2024
Plus: Tesla's delivery numbers will fall short of record, Kalshi traders signal; "Ghostbusters" fandom underestimated
U.S. CFTC's Behnam Says Agency Writing New Policy on Prediction Markets
12.3.2024
U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission Chair Rostin Behnam said his agency will propose a rule in the coming months to establish new regulations for prediction markets
Paradigm Backs Prediction Market in Legal Battle Against CFTC
8.2.2024
Paradigm has stepped up to back Kalshi in its legal battle against the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), defending the right to offer prediction markets in the U.S. Congressional elections, and arguing for the critical role such markets play in risk management and information...
Paradigm Advocates for Prediction Markets as Hedge Against Crypto Regulatory Risks
6.2.2024
Venture capital firm Paradigm has filed a legal brief in support of the prediction market platform Kalshi, which is currently in a legal battle against the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). In a “friend-of-the-court” brief filed recently, Paradigm, despite not being...
Prediction Markets Can Hedge Crypto Startups' Regulatory Risk, Paradigm Says
2.2.2024
Coinbase co-founder Fred Ehrsham's venture capital firm filed a friend-of-the-court brief in Kalshi's case against the CFTC
He Exposed Harvard President's Plagiarism, Then Lost Money Betting on the Story
20.1.2024
Are prediction markets the future of investigative journalism? Maybe, says Chris Brunet, whose reporting led to Claudine Gay's resignation – though he's yet to profit from his scoops
Bitcoin ETF Frenzy Brings Windfall Volume to Decentralized Predictions Platform Polymarket
11.1.2024
Polymarket saw betting contracts worth more than $5.7 million change hands on Wednesday
What Prediction Markets Are Forecasting for Crypto in 2024
18.12.2023
Which projects will do airdrops? Will Kraken go public? Will OpenSea launch a token? I have no idea, but traders with skin in the game think they do
CFTC Chief: Nothing Changed After FTX Meltdown to Empower Agency to Prevent Repeat
15.11.2023
U.S. regulators don't have any more authority now to head off another major crypto collapse than they did when FTX imploded and took much of the industry with it, said Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Chairman Rostin Behnam
Are DeFi prediction markets on the verge of a big breakthrough?
19.10.2023
DeFi refers to decentralized finance. In a macro sense, prediction markets bring out the meaning for users to guess the outcome no matter the segment. However, DeFi Prediction Markets, together, form a union for people to assume the outcome of the movement of a digital asset. The answer has to...
Betting on Justice? Polymarket Odds Reveal Speculators’ Take on Bankman-Fried’s Trial
6.10.2023
As the trial for Sam Bankman-Fried begins this week, the cryptocurrency community is eagerly awaiting the verdict. Will Bankman-Fried be found guilty or not guilty? As the trial progresses, speculators are using the cryptocurrency prediction platform Polymarket to bet on the potential outcome....
Americans (Seemingly) Aren't Allowed to Put This Economic Theory to the Test
22.9.2023
CFTC Denies Kalshi’s Plan to Let Users Bet on Control of U.S. Congress
22.9.2023
Regulators said the plans weren't in the public interest, after a court squabble involving rival service PredictIt
Users on Ethereum’s Decentralized Polymarket Speculate on Biden’s Impeachment
19.9.2023
After the Republican House of Representatives speaker, Kevin McCarthy, directed the House to open an impeachment inquiry into Joe Biden, bettors on the cryptocurrency-powered Polymarket platform have started placing bets on whether Biden will be impeached by two specific dates. Currently, bettors...
BitMEX's Prediction Market is Now Live
13.9.2023
Current prediction market contracts revolve around FTX bankruptcy claim recoveries, the future of bitcoin ETFs, and Sam Bankman-Fried’s jail sentence