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Don Davis bill would ban federal candidates from betting on their own races
The proposal would cover candidates’ families and campaigns, following Kalshi’s sanction of Davis’s Republican opponent.
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Ohio orders 10 prediction markets to halt sports contracts
Cease-and-desist letters cite the Sixth Circuit's ruling that federal commodities law does not displace Ohio's sports-gaming rules
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Opinion column invokes George Santos ban in warning on prediction markets
The Florida State University commentary argues that personal knowledge, aggressive marketing and concentrated gains expose risks beneath the industry’s financial-exchange claims.