Speaking of Prediction Markets!

FanDuel's parent Flutter announces upcoming launch of "FanDuel Predicts" a prediction markets platform, in partnership with CME group (the Chicago based derivatives marketplace).

The platform will offer peer-to-peer trades on contracts across baseball, basketball, football, hockey, and on an assortment of benchmarks: S&P 500, Nasdaq-100, prices of oil and gas, gold, cryptocurrencies, and key economic indicators such as GDP and CPI.

Because the contracts are structured as peer-to-peer trades, prediction market providers are regulated as derivatives platforms rather than betting groups, allowing it to bypass restrictions in US states where sports gambling is illegal. https://www.cmegroup.com/media-room/press-releases/2025/11/12/fanduel_and_cme_groupunveilnewpredictionmarketsplatformtolaunchi.html #FanDuel #CME #MarketTrade #Gambling #Trades #Crypto #CryptoCurrencies #StableCoin #CryptoWallets #PredictionsMarket #SP500 #NASDAQ #GDP #CPI #SportsGambling #Gold #Flutter

Stealth "re-launch".

Polymarket, the decentralized prediction platform, previously accused of operating without a license and banned from operating in the USA had reopened its doors with a "beta" release. (polymarket.com) Select users in the USA can now place live, real-money bets on raft of "markets" including professional sports. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/polymarket-quietly-returns-u-073850520.html #Polymarket #MarketTrade #Gambling #Trades #Crypto #CryptoCurrencies #StableCoin #CryptoWallets #PredictionsMarket

Whaaattt? Fake trades on PolyMarket?

Researchers at Columbia University identified that ~ 25% of contracts on PolyMarket were “wash trades,”. Wash trade refer to the practice of buying and selling securities without taking a net position, for the purpose of artificially inflating recorded trading volume - aka
manipulate the market.

Transaction patterns indicative of wash trading trended upward in July 2024, peaking at nearly 60 percent of volume in December 2024. This activity persisted through late April 2025 before subsiding substantially, and increased again to about 20 percent of volume in early October 2025. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5714122 #Polymarket #Gambling #Trades #WashTrades #MarketManipulation #Crypto #CryptoCurrencies #StableCoin #CryptoWallets #PredictionsMarket #ColumbiaUniversity