Polymarket Rockets to Top of the App Charts with U.S. Launch Hype
If you felt your phone vibrate this week, it might have been Polymarket elbowing its way back into American hands. The prediction market platform just hit number one in the Apple App Store’s Sports category. Number one. Before a full U.S. reopening.…
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…