Prediction Markets Hit $109B Quarterly Volume ATH in Q2 2026
The fourth consecutive quarter of growth, an 18x year-over-year jump, cements prediction markets as one of the fastest-expanding corners of crypto in 2026.
Sector-wide market analysis: dominance, liquidity, on-chain flows, whale activity, and exchange in/outflows.
The fourth consecutive quarter of growth, an 18x year-over-year jump, cements prediction markets as one of the fastest-expanding corners of crypto in 2026.
Quarterly volume jumped 39% from Q1 and 18x year-over-year, making prediction markets one of the fastest-growing on-chain categories of 2026.
2,500,000,000 $USDT (≈$2.5B USD) has been burned at Tether Treasury.
4B $DOGE (≈299.5M) moved from #Binance to unknown wallet.
1.1K $BTC (≈71.5M) moved from #Coinbase to unknown wallet.
817 $BTC (≈51.6M) moved from Coinbase Institutional to unknown wallet.
797 $BTC (≈50.3M) moved from unknown wallet to #Coinbase.
Dunamu and Naver Financial push their merger close to end-2026, citing the country's first comprehensive crypto framework as the binding variable for the deal.
Coinbase has now traded below offshore venues for 50 straight days, beating the 40-day run set in early 2025 and the roughly 30-day stretch around the 1011 crash.
The reserve is still alive on paper, but with no agency owning it and no execution timeline, the headline policy is sliding into the same bureaucratic limbo that killed prior crypto executive orders.
A pseudo-peg token at $0.9999 dropped out of the top 100 to make room for a Base DEX token as of 09:00 UTC on 07 Jul…
The lawsuit hinges on whether 32 BTC sold across one May week qualifies as the kind of "notable" divestment the market was structured to capture.
The single-day bounce is the second green session in three and the biggest inflow in over a month, but it has not yet broken the eight-week streak of net weekly outflows.
Head of research Zach Pandl frames the shift as a structural de-risking for the largest corporate BTC holder, with a more durable price floor as the read for Bitcoin itself.
TRUMP's near-1M-strong bagholder cohort is the supply side; ANSEM's 120K-holder, 95% profitable base is the demand side, and right now demand is winning the market-cap race.
BlackRock's IBIT took the lion's share of a $266M net inflow day across US spot Bitcoin ETFs, while Ethereum ETFs added a quieter $29M led by ETHA.
Saylor's first-ever on-chain sale of $216M did almost nothing to a market busy digesting Trump's open pivot back to the industry ahead of midterms and a record $1.79T stablecoin month.
2.3K $BTC (≈143.7M) moved from unknown wallet to #OKEX.
The Wall Street research shop held its $150K year-end target and said capital flows still need to show signs of life before a true cycle bottom can be confirmed.
190.7M $USDC (≈190.7M) moved from Unknown Whale 1 to #Aave.