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6 Oct Verifact Markets opens trading on disputed facts from the past The on-chain platform resolves True-or-False claims only above a 90% confidence threshold, and is unavailable in the United States
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 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.
3 Oct DeWine says Ohio will enforce gambling laws against Kalshi sports contracts Governor’s pledge follows a Sixth Circuit ruling that let the state proceed while Kalshi’s federal-law challenge continues
2 Oct Kalshi builds a 41-state lobbying network amid prediction-market battles The exchange has concentrated spending in California and New York while giving more than $500,000 to attorneys general and governors’ political groups.
1 Oct Novig seeks funding at up to $2 billion valuation Sports prediction-market platform is discussing a round that would quadruple its February valuation, though the deal has not yet closed.
30 Sep CFTC sends duelling prediction-market definitions to White House review One proposal would class event contracts as swaps, while an interim rule would exclude casino-style products.
30 Sep CFTC investigates Kinzinger’s Kalshi bets on his Biden pardon The former congressman says he had no inside information and made $823 on trades tied to whether Biden would grant clemency.
30 Sep ProphetX embeds its regulated exchange in Plaee’s operator platform The beta integration is designed to spare distribution partners a custom technology build and the need for their own exchange registrations.
30 Sep Bloomberg video examines prediction markets’ challenge to sportsbooks Romaine Bostick’s two-minute segment brought betting and trading executives into a widening debate over sports contracts and federal oversight.