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Former Senator Chris Dodd, former Commodity Futures Trading Commission (and Securities and Exchange Commission) Chair Gary Gensler, the National Football League, 39 states (and the District of Columbia), 145 tribal nations and various other parties filed amicus briefs to the Supreme Court urging it to take up this case, and with many arguing that sports-based prediction market products aren't swaps and shouldn't be…
The NFL said in its Thursday filing that the league had shared concerns with the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, which claims a role as the sole regulator of these platforms, about how they conduct sports wagers. But the NFL told the high court that its requests haven't been answered, leaving betting practices that "pose real challenges to game integrity and consumer protection." The NFL was among many…
The CFTC is trying to define the kind of sports wagering that are not swaps — contractual exchanges between parties that falls into the agency's federal jurisdiction — while maintaining that event contracts still fit the definition of swaps under the law, and as a result belong in CFTC oversight. Casino-style gambling will be held outside that swap definition, according to the interim final rule issued by the…
Bitquery’s 273-race scorecard found an 87% win rate, but its equal-dollar hypothetical shows why accurate calls can come at losing prices
Nearly 18 years after Satoshi Nakamoto left an unfinished poker interface buried inside Bitcoin’s original software, researcher Robin Linus has developed a cryptographic protocol that makes the game possible. His Bitcoin Poker design allows two people to play Texas Hold’em without a dealer, privately generate cards, and enforce payouts through Bitcoin’s existing rules. The catch is that preparing a single game…
Ethereum’s latest selloff has prediction markets pulling in three different directions. Ether fell through $2,600 on Wednesday as U.S. spot ether ETFs logged a sixth straight day of outflows, yet Myriad traders still give ETH a 73.7% shot at hitting $3,000 before $1,500. Polymarket is far less enthusiastic, pricing a $3,000 touch before year-end at 49%, while Kalshi’s year-end forecast sits around $2,720
Cryptocurrency trading is becoming a game of “irrational exuberance” as traders race to be among the earliest investors to find the next 100x token, according to Shayne Coplan, the CEO of prediction market platform Polymarket
Kalshi’s 15-minute gold markets generated nearly twice the estimated trading fees of equivalent Ether markets in September, just weeks after their August launch
Coplan was responding to analysis that showed Polymarket made almost $10 million in revenue this weekend, dwarfing the $2.6 million in revenue made by decentralized derivatives exchange Hyperliquid
While some national polls favored President Lula over Senator Flávio Bolsonaro, Polymarket accurately predicted the opposite outcome days before the polls, giving Bolsonaro a lead. This behavior is similar to what happened before the 2024 U.S. presidential election, when Trump emerged victorious
Reviewed by Reviewed by Saman Waris Updated 16:00 EDT October 4, 2026 Share Share Share Back to Top The prediction markets fight has escalated to the U.S. Supreme Court (SCOTUS) amid conflicting rulings by lower courts over Kalshi’s sports event contracts
Porsche is ending its Web3 project and Pioneers Circle community nearly four years after launching its 911 nonfungible token (NFT) collection
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission has fully embraced a role as the federal regulator of prediction markets and the event contracts they trade in, generally binary yes-or-no bets on the outcome of measurable situations, such as sporting events and elections. To that end, the CFTC has embarked on a campaign to regulate prediction markets such as Kalshi and defend against legal pushback from states insisting…
Prediction markets are flashing warning signs for the cryptocurrency industry ahead of the Nov. 3 midterms. Polymarket gives Democrats a 62% chance of sweeping both chambers of Congress, while Kalshi puts the odds at 61%. Such an outcome could complicate efforts to revive the CLARITY Act and reshape Washington’s cryptocurrency regulations
Blockchain.com has reportedly applied to the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) for approval of prediction market offerings and crypto derivatives
The crypto industry’s heavy backing of US Republicans has alienated Democrats whose support is needed to pass federal crypto legislation, says former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo
Jim Ferraioli, Head of Crypto Research at Charles Schwab, argued that this cryptocurrency cycle is very different from others
Quant (QNT) faces further sideways trading or a deeper pullback as the market cools off from the sharp rally to $374 in late September
Bitcoin’s price is putting Uptober’s reputation back on trial. After closing September near $83,560, the leading crypto asset ripped as high as $86,771 Sunday, placing Friday’s $87,177 peak squarely in the crosshairs
U.S. President Donald Trump has attached a startling $5,000 payout to the 2026 midterms. If Republicans keep the House and Senate on Nov. 3, Trump says every adult U.S. citizen should receive the money, a promise carrying a price tag of roughly $1.2 trillion
The Brazilian election is right ahead, and the cryptocurrency policies of the country, which is ranked as the number one in crypto adoption, might shift as a result. We examine what could happen in the crypto world if President Lula wins, and what would happen if contender Flavio Bolsonaro clinches the victory
Bitcoin’s price spent Saturday trapped close to $85,000 after Friday’s charge above $87,000 collapsed, but the forecasts surrounding it were anything but quiet. Polymarket traders give bitcoin a 39% chance of touching $100,000 before 2027, Kalshi’s year-end forecast stands at $86,240, Claude Opus 5.5 predicts $91,500, and ChatGPT-6 Astra goes higher at $94,000
The Moca Foundation and Moca Network have launched a decentralized blockchain that lets users and AI agents securely share verified credentials across applications
The NFT boom made digital ownership sound like a problem we'd solved for good, but keeping the art alive means paying bills and doing the maintenance nobody wanted to hear about at the launch party
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