Chainalysis found that the 2026 FIFA World Cup generated $20 billion in blockchain prediction market trading, with more than 400,000 wallets taking part. The report also traced $5.4 million in betting funds to a sanctioned crypto exchange, while FIFA Collect recorded very little illicit activity thanks to identity checks.

Prediction market platform Kalshi has accused Netflix of misrepresenting its platform in a forthcoming documentary, alleging that the streaming giant used what it described as a fabricated or misleading betting receipt in promotional footage released ahead of the film's premiere.

Jesse Pollak acknowledged that Base's bets on the developer side were correct, but its strategy around social, creator, and content tokens was a complete failure, causing Base to lag behind in areas such as perpetual contracts, prediction markets, tokenization, and enterprise payments.

Aides to Trump are implicated in an insider trading investigation into prediction markets. U.S. regulators are investigating whether White House teleprompter operators profited by betting on non-public information related to Trump's speeches, with the potential gains exceeding $100,000.

Google has quietly cut staff across its top cybersecurity units — including the Threat Intelligence Group and Mandiant — as the AI spending race forces Big Tech to make difficult trade-offs with its most specialised talent.

Polymarket and Kalshi have taken different product lines.

Polymarket reportedly paid creators to post fake betting videos using copycat websites, with around $1.9 million in shown wagers not being real. The Wall Street Journal said the campaign reached over 140 million views as the company pushes to expand in the US.

The World Cup betting market is transforming from "odds" into an "information market," and humanity's desire to price the future will never cease.

Standard Chartered Bank, Uniswap: Standard Chartered Bank offers 40x leverage, pushing UNI to $100. A research report from a traditional bank has ignited the somewhat dormant DeFi sector.

Trump, Iran, Strait of Hormuz: What trades are the market betting on after the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz? Golden Finance: With the war nearing its end, which assets will benefit or suffer?

US authorities have charged a Google software engineer with allegedly using confidential company data to make more than $1.2 million betting on Polymarket, escalating regulatory scrutiny around insider trading in crypto-based prediction markets.

Michele Spagnuolo, a 36-year-old Google software engineer, is accused of using undisclosed internal Google data to conduct large-scale transactions on the cryptocurrency prediction market Polymarket, ultimately profiting approximately $1.2 million.

On May 20th, Bee Network announced on Bee’s Day that it would open 100,000 KYC slots and plans to continue expanding its scale and accelerate the compliance verification of real users throughout the year. It also launched the AI ​​game engine bee.games and incubated the prediction market Polyhub, expanding its presence in the Web3 game and sports prediction fields.