Federal regulators are escalating their clash with states that seek to prosecute event-contract venues, with Utah felony charges against Kalshi founders drawing

A vendor script hack drained about $2.7M from roughly 700 users and forced a temporary halt to international trading, a test of operational security for the sec

The reported valuation marks a step change in how investors price private prediction market venues, which remain unlisted.

The NBA team tie-up follows league-level approval and signals sports franchises moving toward event-contract sponsorship dollars.

Event contracts are becoming a core growth line for the brokerage even as its digital-asset take rate falls.

The exchange's event-contract business is growing even as its broader crypto revenue declines, making it a key diversification story.

A compromised third-party script drained roughly $2.5M-$2.7M from Polymarket users, forcing a pause on international trading and relayer operations before the p

New accounts placed large late bets on a Netanyahu win, prompting Polymarket to open a probe that highlights the difficulty of forensic tracing on-chain.

A bipartisan pair of senators asked the two prediction markets to disclose how they police insider trading ahead of the midterms.

With prediction market odds diverging from traditional forecasters, both platforms are under scrutiny over whether their pricing will hold up on election night.

Market pricing on 12 key Senate races currently points to Democratic control of both chambers.

The partnership aims to detect manipulation and suspicious activity in Polymarket's sports contracts.

The round roughly doubles Kalshi's valuation from its May price tag and funds expansion into crypto and single-stock perpetual futures, extending the prediction

The charges escalate the jurisdictional conflict between state regulators and the federally regulated event-contract exchange, with Polymarket US also reported

Lawmakers are asking the two prediction markets to disclose safeguards against trading on nonpublic election information as midterm wagering volume grows.

The deal marks the first NBA team tie-up for a prediction market as sports event contracts draw growing scrutiny from gambling regulators.

The suit adds Missouri to the list of states where Kalshi is litigating whether federal commodities law preempts local gambling oversight.

Hiring the former U.S. solicitor general signals Kalshi is preparing to take the sports event-contract dispute to the high court.

A bipartisan Senate pair is demanding the prediction market operators detail how they police insider trading in election contracts ahead of the midterms.

The prediction market platform's new funding round values it at $40 billion as it expands beyond election contracts.

Polymarket is probing a late surge of wagers on an Israeli election outcome, reviving questions about manipulation in thin political markets.

The two largest prediction markets head into Election Day under scrutiny over whether their prices track reality better than polls.

Reviewing recent election misses, the WSJ questions whether market prices will outperform pollsters in 2026.

CNBC examines unusual trading patterns in political event contracts as the midterms approach.

The round values the prediction market platform at $40 billion, a figure analysts are already debating given its revenue base.

Event contracts are now the growth engine in Robinhood's results, offsetting a steep decline in crypto trading revenue.

The CFTC is signaling it will escalate its jurisdictional dispute with states that have moved to restrict prediction market platforms, setting up a possible hig

Coinbase is touting prediction markets as one of its fastest-growing segments even as overall quarterly revenue declined.

The warning adds regulatory scrutiny to event contract venues already facing state and federal jurisdictional fights.

The exchange's proposed binary-style contracts would put traditional market infrastructure in direct competition with event contract platforms.

Utah filed 14 criminal charges against Kalshi, and the CFTC is seeking an injunction to stop the state case on the grounds that federal event-contract jurisdict

The agreement makes Michigan the latest state to extract a concession from a prediction market without a court ruling, setting a template for other regulators.

The SEC is weighing cases tied to trading on nonpublic information in event contracts, adding a securities-law front to the regulatory fight.

Kalshi is going on offense against a third state after Utah criminal charges and Michigan's sports-contract settlement, arguing federal jurisdiction over event

The round lands as Kalshi fights criminal charges in Utah and suits in multiple states, giving it capital to fund the legal campaign.

Reported patterns of election-contract trading are feeding arguments for tighter federal oversight of political event markets.