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From Trump trades to Musk tweets and NFL prop bets, a record year for prediction markets sets up a pivotal 2026
Prediction markets had their biggest year on record in 2025, with Polymarket and Kalshi emerging as dominant players amid a surge of investment, media attention, and multi-billion-dollar valuations. With U.S. midterm elections approaching in 2026, an event that could prove to be a massive trading opportunity similar to the presidential race of 2024, the two startups now face a pivotal test: whether they can move beyond hype and prove their value as forecasting tools at scale. Even as interest in prediction markets has gone mainstream, some critics question whether reported trading volumes are overstated, while ... (full story)
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From youtube.com/cnbctelevision|Dec 26, 2025CNBC's MacKenzie Sigalos reports on Strategy.
From traderfeed.blogspot.com|Dec 26, 2025Closely related to curiosity (see below) is insight. Insight into markets comes from intuition and intuition comes from pattern recognition. Our curiosity leads us to observe ...
From cointelegraph.com|Dec 26, 2025Bitcoin rose above $89,500, but the bulls could not sustain the higher levels. A sustainable recovery would require institutional demand to pick up. Since Dec. 15, BTC ...
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From @financialjuice|Dec 26, 2025|9 commentsTrump: I think the Zelenskyy meeting will be good. I expect to speak with Putin soon - Politico.
Trump: Zelenskyy ‘doesn’t have anything until I approve it’ President Donald Trump on Friday cast himself as the ultimate arbiter of any peace deal between Ukraine and Russia, in an exclusive conversation with POLITICO. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is expected to meet with Trump in Florida on Sunday and told reporters he’s bringing with him a new 20-point plan for peace. The framework includes a proposed demilitarized zone and the meeting is expected to focus on U.S. security guarantees. But in an interview, Trump appeared lukewarm to Zelenskyy’s latest overture and in no rush to endorse the Ukrainian president’s proposal. “He doesn’t have anything until I approve it,” Trump said. “So we’ll see what he’s got.” Still, Trump believed he could have a productive meeting this weekend. “I think it’s going to go good with him. I think it’s going to go good with [Vladimir] Putin,” Trump said, adding that he expects to speak with the Russian leader “soon, as much as I want.”
From reports.tiger-research.com|Dec 26, 2025|1 commentThe crypto industry is joining the mainstream. Institutions have become key market players. Capital moves to projects that generate real revenue. Short-term price fluctuations no ...
From financemagnates.com|Dec 26, 2025|1 commentCrypto.com is building an internal market-making team with the stated goal of profiting from trading on its own prediction market, Bloomberg reports. This move might raise ...
