Prediction market

Platforms for betting on events

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Prediction Markets (4)
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Party Division (1)
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Federal vs. State Authority (1)
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Prediction markets, also known as betting markets, information markets, decision markets, idea futures, or event derivatives, are open markets that enable the prediction of specific outcomes using financial incentives (gambling on real world events). They are exchange-traded markets established for trading bets in the outcome of various events. The market prices can indicate what the crowd thinks the probability of the event is.

📰 Related News (9)

🇺🇸 We Shouldn’t Want a World Run by Prediction Markets (2026-03-23)
Prediction markets teach us to look at the future as gamblers, rather than as citizens....
🇺🇸 Wall Street Is Already Betting on Prediction Markets (2026-03-16)
As the legal war over how to regulate prediction markets rages on, financial institutions are embracing the industry anyway....
🇺🇸 Prediction Markets? An 83% Chance That Oscars Pundits Hate Them. (2026-03-14)
Online wagering is all the rage. But the crowdsourced data generally doesn’t interest experts who have built a brand predicting Academy Awards races....
🇺🇸 Trump regulator splits GOP with prediction market fight (2026-03-05)
The Trump administration is wading into a legal fight between prediction markets and state regulators seeking to enforce gambling laws within their bo...
🇺🇸 Polymarket users won big with unusual bets on US attack on Iran (2026-03-03)
FT analysis identifies 12 accounts on platform that made large well-timed wagers just ahead of start of conflict...
🇺🇸 Kalshi voids some bets on Khamenei’s ouster because it’s ‘directly tied to death’ (2026-03-01)
In a statement on X, Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour said his company would pay out positions on "Ali Khamenei out as Supreme Leader?" at the last trading pr...
🇺🇸 Polymarket defends its decision to allow betting on war as ‘invaluable’ (2026-02-28)
Polymarket has been allowing people to bet on when the US would strike Iran next. Obviously, now that it's actually happened and people have died, the...
🇺🇸 Xmarket Launches Beta on BNB Chain Mainnet: The First Prediction Market That Pays Creators and Early Believers (2026-02-27)
🇺🇸 Trump administration backs Kalshi and Polymarket as states move to ban prediction markets (2026-02-17)
The Trump administration is throwing its support behind the prediction market operators Kalshi and Polymarket in a critical legal battle between the g...

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