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The legal conflict surrounding Kalshi is no longer a localized dispute between a platform and individual states. It is evolving into a constitutional-level question about federal authority, financial regulation, and…
AI vs Humans in Prediction Markets: Speed Already Won Prediction markets were supposed to reward insight. That was the pitch. You bring information. You form a view. The market aggregates…
Prediction markets are steadily expanding beyond politics, sports, and crypto-native price forecasts into domains traditionally dominated by economists, policymakers, and long-term investors. The partnership between Parcl and Polymarket marks one…
Prediction markets have crossed a threshold that few expected this quickly. In 2025, they stopped being experimental trading venues and became a mainstream financial product processing tens of billions of…
How Prediction Markets Became Finance’s New Power Center What began as an obscure corner of the internet—used mostly by technologists and political obsessives to forecast election outcomes—ended 2025 as one…
Why Do Prediction Markets Trigger Such a Strong Moral Reaction? Few areas of crypto provoke as visceral a reaction as prediction markets. To critics, they represent a dangerous fusion of…
Prediction Markets Are Crypto’s Next Power Struggle Prediction Markets Are Crypto’s Next Power Struggle Prediction Markets Go Mainstream: Coinbase, Crypto.com, JPMorgan Prediction Markets: The New Growth Engine or a Casino…
The rapid push by mainstream finance platforms into prediction markets reflects a familiar pattern in consumer fintech: when growth in core products slows, attention turns to higher-engagement, higher-volatility offerings that…