Finance
Kalshi’s Tarek Mansour: Embrace Crypto or Be Left Behind
While Kalshi continues to make inroads on the blockchain, the prediction market has no intention of becoming crypto-centric. Yes, Kalshi sees crypto as critical to its growth, but the...
Investments
Kalshi Announces $300 Million Investment, Massive Global Expansion
Investment keeps flowing into prediction markets. Kalshi announced today, Friday, Oct. 10, that it has “recently raised” $300 million at a valuation of $5 billion, a figure consistent...
Industry
Polymarket-ICE Deal Revolutionary for Crypto, Validating for Prediction Markets
News of Intercontinental Exchange’s potential $2 billion investment in Polymarket is reverberating through the financial and gambling communities, with execs proclaiming the deal as...
Investments
Polymarket Lands Potential $2 Billion Investment from NYSE Owner Intercontinental Exchange
Prediction markets may be in a precarious regulatory situation, but that’s not stopping the companies from attracting major financial investments. Polymarket announced today that...
Finance
Kalshi Surpasses Polymarket In Trading Volume As John Wang Eyes Crypto Push
Kalshi has surpassed Polymarket in weekly trading volume, according to multiple reports. Boosted by its US presence as football season has kicked off, Kalshi saw $871.8 million in trades...
Featured News and Analysis
Regulatory Inconsistencies, Not Sports, Drive SEC/CFTC Roundtable Discussion
As prediction markets rise in prominence, Polymarket CEO Shayne Coplan and Kalshi’s Tarek Mansour represented a new generation of financial exchanges on Monday’s SEC-CFTC joint...
Industry
Kalshi, Polymarket Make Moves To Inject Crypto Into US Prediction Markets
In a step to bolster liquidity and ease transactional friction, Kalshi Klear, the clearing house for the prediction market, has filed with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission to...
Finance
Kelp Launches “Gain” Yield Optimizer
Restaking protocol Kelp has just launched “Gain” – an automated optimizer for yield farming and airdrop points participation across Layer 2 networks. Gain provides users with a...
Regulation & Policy
Kamala Harris Advisor Picks Could Indicate Persisting Crypto Policy
Recent insights suggest that US Vice President Kamala Harris might continue the current administration’s hardheaded approach toward crypto. Her choice of advisors, as identified...
Finance
tBTC Garners Interest As WBTC Scrutinized Over Justin Sun Partnership
Alternatives to Wrapped Bitcoin (WBTC) including tBTC have witnessed a recent surge in interest, following a weekend announcement that WBTC custodian BitGo will be forming a joint venture...
Finance
Chef Nomi’s Controversial Exit Shakes SushiSwap Community
On September 5, 2020, Chef Nomi, the pseudonymous creator of SushiSwap, shocked the community by removing his significant share of SUSHI/ETH liquidity and converting it to ETH. The...
Finance
Yearn Introduces YFI Governance Token and New Liquidity Pools
Yield aggregator Yearn launched its new YFI governance token on July 17, 2020, along with several new liquidity pools. Excerpt from the YFI token blog post | Source: Medium.com/iearn/...
