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US Election: Crypto Prediction Markets Flip To Favor Trump Over Biden, Bitcoin Rallies
4.11.2020
As the race between the two main opponents in the US presidential elections inches towards the end, crypto prediction markets flipped to favor the still-President Donald Trump over the potential-President Joe Biden.
Now, according to these markets, there is a 75% (36% several hours ago) chance...
Vitalik Buterin ventures three reasons why prediction markets are pro-Trump
3.11.2020
Buterin asks whether crypto prediction markets reflect the wisdom of the crowd or are they skewed by illiquidity and/or the political bias of their social base
The 2020 Elections Are Boosting Crypto Prediction Markets
3.11.2020
Decentralized betting platforms like Polymarket and YieldWars are seeing accelerated trading volume growth leading up to the 2020 presidential election
Prediction Markets Say Trump Won the Election Debate - but Barely
23.10.2020
Donal Trump (on the left) and Joe Biden (on the right) during the debate. Source: a video screenshot, Youtube, CNBC Television
Even prediction markets seemingly don't know what to make of last night's face-off between US President Donald Trump and his challenger for the upcoming election,...
Crypto Traders Bet on US Election as FTX Prediction Markets Hit Record Volumes
16.10.2020
October sees record volume for TRUMP and BIDEN markets three weeks ahead of the U.S. election
Prediction market doubts Trump will complete first term after COVID-19 diagnosis
2.10.2020
A pump in daily volume creates an 8% swing on whether Trump will complete his first term
Crypto prediction markets turn against Trump after first debate
1.10.2020
Emerging Ethereum-powered predictions platform Polymarket produced six-figure volume amid the first presidential debates
Crypto Bets on the US Election Show Joe Biden Winning the Presidency by 60%
1.10.2020
During the first half of the year, betting portals that allow people to wager cryptocurrencies on the upcoming U.S. election had shown Donald Trump winning the election. However, after Tuesday evening’s Presidential Debate, betting markets like Cloudbet show Joe Biden’s chances...
Election 2020 Prediction Markets: Bettors Say Trump Lost Tuesday’s Debate
30.9.2020
With the first presidential debate now smoldering behind us, the betting markets have picked their winner: Joe Biden
What Is DeFi?
18.9.2020
DeFi is short for "decentralized finance," an umbrella term for Ethereum and blockchain applications geared toward disrupting financial intermediaries
Ethereum Gas Fees Drive Gnosis-Powered Prediction Market to xDai’s Layer 2
17.9.2020
"Ethereum is on the way to becoming a whale chain," said Gnosis co-founder Stefan George. That's why his team's tech is moving to xDai
Prediction Markets’ Time Has Come, but They Aren’t Ready for It
2.9.2020
After the pundits so badly misjudged the 2016 U.S. presidential election, prediction markets should be booming ahead of Nov. 3. Why aren’t they?
Looks Like DeFi is Coming to Prediction Markets
21.8.2020
Would you rather bet on YFI or BTC?
5 Years After Launch, Predictions Market Platform Augur Releases Version 2
29.7.2020
Augur v2 has all the bells and whistles: Interplanetary File System (IPFS), 0x Mesh, MakerDAO’s dai and Uniswap’s v2 oracle network
Despite Covid-19 Negativity, Crypto Prediction Markets Say Trump Wins the 2020 Election
3.7.2020
According to a number of crypto prediction markets and futures, Trump will still win the election in 123 days, but his chances have lessened a great deal. No matter who wins, however, the large sums of money flowing into these wager platforms indicate that people love to bet on election outcomes....
Augur’s Revamped Predictions Platform Launches Next Month With a New Token
30.6.2020
The blockchain predictions platform is upgrading to version 2 in July, but users will have to migrate to a new token if they want to use it
Crypto Prediction Markets Face Competition From Facebook ‘Forecasts’
26.6.2020
Facebook’s Forecast app has been launched in beta even as the blockchain-based Augur platform readies for its v2 revamp
What Crypto Prediction Markets Can Tell Us About Coronavirus
22.4.2020
Project building new market mechanisms atop Ethereum, Gnosis, funds a decentralized prediction markets platform that wants to uncover useful and factual information about the coronavirus, amidst the abundance of false and conflicting news.
Coronavirus is a global challenge that caused major...
This USV-Backed Startup Has a Solution for Buying Information With Confidence
10.3.2020
Erasure is a smart contract on Ethereum for people to share information and to express confidence about that information by putting money behind it
Cryptocurrency Futures and Prediction Markets Show Trump Wins the US 2020 Election
8.2.2020
In less than 270 days the United States will have its 2020 election and millions of people worldwide will be betting on whether Donald Trump is reelected. Cryptocurrency participants are currently wagering their digital assets on the election outcome, where the odds on prediction markets...