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The platform's public leverage tape lets anyone watch high-conviction blow-ups in real time, and the cascade is starting to drive its own short-term setups.
Kalshi and Polymarket already cleared a category worth $130B+ in annual volume; Meta's edge is 3.56 billion daily users, yet its Reality Labs burn and Libra collapse mean the same scale that makes…
The jump from $22B to a reported $40B in a single funding cycle reflects prediction markets' shift from niche crypto rails to a sports-betting volume machine that has nearly 4x'd year-over-year.
A successful Q3 close would push Kalshi's valuation lead over crypto-native Polymarket to roughly 2.7x, while CEO Tarek Mansour floats an IPO no earlier than 2027.
The split is structural, not a lull: Solana's Leader schedule can't guarantee cancellations ahead of fills, so market makers widen perps while spot spreads tighten to near-CEX levels.
A stealth API layer sits between fintechs and DeFi protocols, letting wallets and asset managers offer yield products without building their own onchain plumbing.
The raise pairs a TradFi heavyweight with a crypto-native lead, and lands at the exact moment institutional capital needs clean onchain data to deploy.
The survey lands as Congress weighs the Predicting Our Predictions Act and Kalshi/Polymarket battle state-by-state over which platforms stay live.
Kalshi's first billion-dollar open interest print arrived the same week Polymarket's World Cup-driven volume tripled, a signal that event-contract retail demand is now flowing through both regulated…
The raise, led by Kraken's parent, lands as prediction markets are being repriced on the back of Kalshi's $22B valuation and a flood of sports-betting liquidity into the segment.
A $3,500 target by 2030 puts the bank in the bullish corner of DeFi, but the real driver is a $2.7T thesis that tokenized RWAs and stablecoins rewire credit markets.
Project Pangea is the rare institutional pilot that names a real cross-border use case. The question is whether LINK captures any of the flow it helps clear.
Spot volumes softened to a nine-month low in May while RWA perpetual futures printed a fresh all-time high, a split that says more about where the bid is rotating than the index's muted daily move.
The deal moves institutional mortgage paper onto a public chain with a privacy-preserving verification model, the structural piece TradFi underwriters need before loan-level tokenization scales.
Geoff Kendrick's call implies roughly 50x from current levels and rests on tokenized assets active in DeFi growing 37-fold by decade-end, with Aave capturing the lending side of that flow.
CryptoRank's monthly tracker now shows DeFi TVL below the $70B line for the first time since 2023, with 121 hacks and $942M in losses accelerating the year-long unwind across every major chain except…
The same day Treasury named nine individuals and 26 entities tied to a $10B Southeast Asia scam network, a DeFi coalition went public pledging to set enforceable operational standards before…
Put-call skew on Deribit widened to 10.9 vol points in favor of puts and OI-adjusted CVD turned negative across most top-25 tokens, the cleanest read yet that short sellers are driving price action…
The legacy exchange is reusing a decade-old playbook because prediction markets just proved retail will trade outcomes, not just prices.
Roughly 25% of all Bitcoin network fees are now coming from Runes-related transactions, a structural shift in block-space demand that arrived while BTC trades near $62K, roughly half its October peak.
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