Tag: Prediction Markets
Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund, Vitalik Buterin Back $45M Investment in Polymarket
Billionaire Peter Thiel's Founders Fund is the lead investor, Polymarket founder Shayne Coplan told CoinDesk via Telegram message. Other participants [...]
Donald Trump and Joe Biden Tied on Prediction Market, Diverging From Polls
Officially, the U.S. is a bicameral system, with the two legislative bodies working to craft bills that are sent to the president for signature. But t [...]
U.S. CFTC Proposes Ban on Political Event Contracts
Prediction platforms including PredictIt, Polymarket, Zeitgeist and Kalshi give users opportunities to buy contracts on the outcomes of actual events, [...]
Elon Musk Will Likely Remain Tesla CEO, and Tweet Non-Stop: Prediction Markets
Now, Tesla faces an existential threat. Sales and profits are falling, competition is increasing, particularly from China, and drastic cost-cutting me [...]
Polymarket Odds Say Columbia University President Minouche Shafik Will Keep Job
Right now, "yes" shares for the crypto-based betting platform's "Minouche Shafik out as Columbia President in April?" contract are trading at 7 cents, [...]
How to Design Better On-Chain Governance
An introduction to Futarchy and combinatorial prediction markets.
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How Many Years Will SBF Get? Jury's Out on Betting Platform Polymarket
Plus: Tesla's delivery numbers will fall short of record, Kalshi traders signal; "Ghostbusters" fandom underestimated.
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U.S. CFTC’s Behnam Says Agency Writing New Policy on Prediction Markets
"We must continually be fair and consistent in evaluating the products and proposals presented for our consideration," Behnam said."The commission mus [...]
He Exposed Harvard President’s Plagiarism, Then Lost Money Betting on the Story
"I've never made money on prediction markets. I'm down. It's a hobby rather than something I actually make money on," Brunet said in an interview with [...]
CFTC Chief: Nothing Changed After FTX Meltdown to Empower Agency to Prevent Repeat
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 indus [...]
Prediction Market Kalshi Sues U.S. CFTC for Denying Its Contracts for Congressional Elections
When the CFTC denied the application earlier this year, Commissioner Summer Mersinger dissented, arguing, "It is important for the commission to make [...]