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6 Oct WBUR examines election prediction markets’ rise and insider-risk concerns Here & Now host Scott Tong spoke with Anti-Corruption Data Collective co-director Michael Hornsby as political wagers surged
5 Oct Polymarket Alpha traders made about $40m as age-access debate grows The private Discord group included at least three teenagers, while New York challenges the legality of Polymarket US contracts.
5 Oct Supreme Court leaves sports prediction-market petitions pending The justices’ first orders list granted three unrelated cases, while responses in the New Jersey and Nevada disputes are still due this month and next.
5 Oct CFTC approves Kalshi’s perpetual future on U.S. large-cap stocks The US500 contract uses a MerQube index of 500 companies and has no fixed expiry date.
5 Oct Markets Media joins NEXTPredict NYC as official media partner Trader TV will broadcast live from the October prediction-markets summit at Hudson Yards, alongside panels and speaker recruitment.
5 Oct Axcera adds Plaee’s simulated prediction markets for prop firms The integration lets firms run YES/NO event-contract trading with virtual capital while retaining Axcera’s existing challenge, risk and payout systems.
5 Oct Brazil prediction markets moved to Bolsonaro before first-round upset Market odds crossed in Flávio Bolsonaro’s favor on Sept. 12, while Datafolha polls had put Lula ahead
5 Oct Kalshi opens talks with Missouri after sports-contract cease-and-desist order The company is the first of six targeted prediction markets to respond, as a state-versus-federal regulatory fight continues.
5 Oct Nevada urges Ninth Circuit to reject Kalshi’s CFTC-rulemaking delay The state says a potential rewrite of the event-contract rule cannot undo the panel’s conclusion that Kalshi’s sports contracts are bets, not swaps.
4 Oct Kalshi falls outside Pennsylvania’s self-exclusion system, NPR profile finds A man who had excluded himself from DraftKings and FanDuel lost more than $25,000 on the federally supervised prediction-market platform.
4 Oct Kalshi executive calls election markets positive for democracy amid Michigan fight Luana Lopes Lara says market prices inform voters, while Michigan and election officials raise gambling, manipulation and insider-trading concerns.
3 Oct LDS leader condemns gambling and prediction markets as ‘morally wrong’ D. Todd Christofferson told General Conference that always-available mobile betting fosters greed, debt and compulsive behaviour, particularly among young people.