Crypto Prediction Markets Surge Beyond $20 Billion Monthly as Geopolitical Betting Dominates Onchain prediction markets have blasted through a monumental milestone, clocking over $20 billion in monthly trading volume by January 2026, a staggering leap from just $1.2 billion at the dawn of 2025. Far from a passing crypto trend, this boom signals a seismic […]
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NYSE Parent ICE Drops $600M on Polymarket: Future of Finance or Regulatory Trainwreck? Wall Street heavyweight Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), the parent company behind the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), has just pumped $600 million in cash into Polymarket, a crypto-powered prediction market platform that lets users bet on real-world events. Announced on March 27, 2026, […]
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Kalshi’s Margin Trading Approval: A Bold Step for Prediction Markets with Big Risks Kalshi, a U.S.-based prediction market platform, has scored a major win with regulatory approval from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) to launch margin trading. This move could reshape the speculative betting landscape, creating new intersections between traditional finance (TradFi) and decentralized […]
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CFTC Unveils Innovation Task Force to Rein in Crypto and AI Chaos The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) dropped a major bombshell at the Digital Asset Summit in New York, launching an Innovation Task Force to grapple with the untamed frontiers of cryptocurrencies, artificial intelligence (AI), and prediction markets. Spearheaded by Chairman Michael Selig, this […]
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Polymarket’s New Insider Trading Rules: A Bold Move or a Band-Aid for Washington’s Wrath? Prediction markets are betting billions on the future, from election outcomes to inflation swings, but they’re also betting on their own survival. Polymarket, the heavyweight in this blockchain-powered arena, just unleashed its toughest rules yet to tackle insider trading and market […]
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Polymarket Cracks Down: New Rules to Combat Insider Trading in Crypto Prediction Markets Polymarket, a major player in the prediction markets space, has rolled out stringent new rules to tackle insider trading and market manipulation on its Polygon-based decentralized finance (DeFi) platform and its CFTC-regulated U.S. exchange. Amid a flurry of suspicious trades linked to […]
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Gemini's $589M Loss and Prediction Market Gamble: A High-Stakes Bet in Regulatory Quicksand Gemini, a titan in the crypto exchange space, has dropped a financial bombshell with a $589 million net loss for fiscal year 2025, even as it notched a record-breaking Q4 revenue of $60.3 million. Now, with traditional crypto trading revenue tanking, the […]
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Gemini Lawsuit: Winklevoss Twins Sued Over Crypto Stock Crash and Strategy Shift Gemini, the cryptocurrency exchange founded by Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss, finds itself in hot water as a class-action lawsuit lands in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York. Shareholders accuse the company, its co-founders, and several executives of misleading […]
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Kalshi Hit with $54M Lawsuit as Polymarket Faces Heat Over Geopolitical Betting Scandals Prediction markets are making headlines for all the wrong reasons as Kalshi, a US-regulated platform, gets slapped with a $54 million class-action lawsuit over a contract tied to the death of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, while Polymarket draws suspicion for […]
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Prediction Markets Under Fire: Insider Bets on U.S.-Iran Strikes Ignite Controversy A blockbuster scandal has hit the crypto world as six anonymous accounts on Polymarket, a blockchain-based prediction market platform, pocketed nearly $1.2 million by betting on U.S. military strikes against Iran on February 28—mere hours before the attacks unfolded. What looks like either uncanny […]
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