Crypto-native prediction markets spent years positioning themselves as a smarter, more useful alternative to gambling — a way to trade on information rather than spin a roulette wheel. But once sports became their dominant use case, the same products that… Read More »How Sports Turned Crypto Prediction Markets Mainstream — And Why Regulators Might Shut Them Down
Bitcoin’s latest pullback is less about on-chain data or funding rates and more about a single geopolitical shock: a new threat from the White House targeting Iran’s power infrastructure and the Strait of Hormuz. What Triggered Bitcoin’s Overnight Drop Overnight,… Read More »Bitcoin Slides to $68K as Trump Threatens to ‘Obliterate’ Iranian Power Plants
The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) is moving to rein in insider-style trading and manipulation risks in prediction markets, a fast-growing corner of derivatives that now overlaps heavily with crypto-native platforms and retail trading apps. For crypto traders, prediction… Read More »CFTC Targets Insider Trading Risks in Crypto Prediction Markets
Crypto-native trading has moved far beyond spot tokens and meme coins. In 2025, a set of products that once felt fringe—onchain perpetual futures and blockchain-based prediction markets—crossed an important threshold. They became liquid, always-on infrastructures through which traders can now… Read More »How Crypto Prediction Markets Turn Geopolitical Conflict Into Tradeable Bets
Prediction markets have spent years arguing they are information tools and financial instruments, not gambling apps with better UX. Tennessee just forced that argument into court. In early January, the state’s sports betting watchdog told Kalshi, Polymarket, and Crypto.com to… Read More »Tennessee Targets Kalshi and Polymarket: When Do Prediction Markets Become Illegal Sports Betting?