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Prediction markets spent much of the past year fighting legal battles. This week, the focus shifted elsewhere: governments discussed new regulatory frameworks, trading platforms expanded distributi ...

Alpaca has secured US$435 million in a new financing package, which includes US$300 million in debt financing from Payward, the parent company of major cryptocurrency exchange Kraken, and Canadian ...

Xryma, which was recently rebranded from ISX Financial EU, has received approval from the Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission for the prospectus governing the admission of its ordinary shares ...

Kalshi has launched GPU forward curves, extending its exchange infrastructure beyond prediction markets into AI compute. . The new benchmarks are designed to help price future GPU capacity and coul ...

Kalshi has spent the past year adding CFTC-regulated perpetual futures and hedge fund clearing access. Its latest move addresses a different gap: the trading interface itself.

Prediction markets continue to expand into new products, new distribution channels, and new regulatory frameworks. This week brought developments across all three.

eToro launched AI investing tools and refreshed its brand, while IC Markets announced a website migration this month.

Prediction markets crossed another milestone in June, surpassing $50 billion in monthly trading volume for the first time. . The same week, European regulators initiated a new coordinated response ...

In its 3 July statement, ESMA warned that event contracts may fall within the EU's long-standing retail ban on binary options. The regulator addressed a market that barely exists in Europe and rais ...

Prediction markets surpassed $50 billion in monthly trading volume for the first time in June, with activity jumping 75% from May, according to Artemis data.