Goldman Sachs has prohibited staff from trading finance and political event contracts, while Wall Street rivals add controls around Kalshi and Polymarket.
Polymarket filed for U.S. futures commission merchant registration, opening a path to regulated margin trading in prediction markets if regulators approve.
North Carolina's new budget law recognizes CFTC authority over prediction markets and sets a 6% tax on platform fee revenue from state residents starting in 2027.
Paradigm raised a $1.2 billion fourth fund for crypto, AI, robotics and frontier tech, testing whether crypto VC can expand without abandoning digital assets.
ESMA warned that some prediction-market event contracts may fall under EU binary-options bans, raising a new hurdle for Polymarket-style products.
DraftKings launched DKeX, its proprietary prediction markets exchange, after DraftKings Predictions hit 3.4B annualized consumer volume.
Charles Schwab is working with Cboe to offer S&P 500 binary options, pushing prediction-market mechanics toward more than 39 million brokerage accounts.
CME moved to challenge the CFTC's Kalshi bitcoin perpetual futures approval, turning U.S. crypto perps into a fight over swaps, futures and retail leverage.
Kentucky sued Kalshi, Polymarket and Coinbase-linked entities over alleged unlicensed sports betting, citing nearly 23B in Kalshi contract volume.
The CFTC proposed a 90-day review framework for prediction-market event contracts as Kalshi and Polymarket volumes surge.
Kalshi says it now offers 13 CFTC-approved crypto perpetual futures, including Dogecoin and Shiba Inu, as U.S. crypto leverage moves beyond bitcoin.
The CFTC approved Kalshi's BTCPERP bitcoin perpetual futures contract, opening a regulated U.S. lane for crypto perps as BTC trades near $60K.