February Betting App Download Race: Kalshi Runs Away With It (and It’s Not Close)
If you needed a reminder that Super Bowl marketing season is basically a mini stimulus package, here you go. The top betting (and betting-adjacent) apps are putting up monster download numbers in February so far, and while downloads aren’t the same as…
Kalshi NYC Giveaway: How to Get $50 in Free Groceries Today
Because nothing says “trustworthy financial exchange” quite like footing someone’s grocery bill so they’ll finally understand what a prediction market is, right? Kalshi is basically saying, “Hey New York, forget your sky-high rent and avocado toast, let…
Prediction Markets Disrupt Big Gambling as Sportsbook Giants Lose Ground
Ah yes, the sweet irony of markets doing what markets do best: Humbling billion-dollar empires at the worst possible moment. Shares of DraftKings and Flutter Entertainment (parent company of FanDuel) have been hit hard after whispers grew louder that…
The Heisman’s Real Voters Are on Kalshi and Polymarket This Year
Welcome to the 2025 Heisman race, where the sportsbooks don’t matter, the media doesn’t matter, and the voters don’t matter, because Kalshi and Polymarket have already reduced the entire award to a two-man duel decided by one football game on Saturday.…
2026 Midterms: Prediction Markets Smell a Dem Sweep
If the political class is confused about 2026, don’t worry, the prediction markets have already decided what’s going to happen, how it’s going to happen, and how much they’re willing to lose betting on it. Kalshi and Polymarket traders have been grinding…
2028 Election Prediction Markets Data
Kalshi and Polymarket traders continue to out-dramatic cable news, and with actual numbers. If you thought the last election cycle was chaotic, congratulations, prediction markets have decided to turn 2028 into a long-running dark comedy. Let’s check in…
Kalshi Rockets To $11 Billion Valuation With Rumored CNN Deal
The prediction market space has been on a heater this year, but Kalshi just turned up the thermostat. According to a new funding report from Kalshi, the regulated event contract exchange has raised $1 billion in fresh capital, instantly pushing its…
DraftKings To Bring Prediction Markets to ESPN
The Penn Entertainment–ESPN partnership, once pitched as a potential 10-year, $2 billion powerhouse, is now ending early. What used to be ESPN Bet has already been rebranded as theScore Bet, as Penn retreats back to the brand it actually understands.…
Prediction Market Update: Kalshi on Top, Polymarket #2, Volume Dips
Another week, another data drop that proves prediction markets are still the most entertaining mix of finance, gambling, and “I read one chart so now I am Nate Silver.” Let’s dive into the numbers from the past week. Transactions: Kalshi and…
Polymarket’s Billionaire CEO Hits 60 Minutes, Prediction Markets Go Mainstream
Prediction markets just got their “prime time” moment, and no, it wasn’t because Kalshi decided to list a market on supervolcano eruptions (we covered that circus already). This time, the spotlight goes to Polymarket CEO Shayne Coplan, who just landed a…
Robinhood Dumps Kalshi For Prediction Market App in ’26
Well, color us shocked. Robinhood, the app that democratized finance (and occasionally pauses it when the plebs start winning), has decided that being friends is overrated. After a nice little fling with Kalshi, where Robinhood happily routed billions of…