Prediction markets continued to see sturdy development throughout the week of Aug. 17-23. Across Kalshi and Polymarket Global, merchants exchanged greater than 10.27 billion contracts for $3.36 billion in quantity. Trading exercise accelerated even sooner, with mixed trades rising 7.9% week over week to 77.28 million transactions. The week’s greatest driver was sports activities, which…
NFL prediction market quantity reached $167.8 million in the week ending August 16, up 324.4% from $39.5 million the week prior, in line with DeFi Rate knowledge. Preseason recreation markets accounted for $143.5 million of that whole, or 85.5%, throughout Kalshi, Polymarket Global and Polymarket US. The whole cumulative quantity on all NFL prediction markets…
Prediction market exercise rebounded this week after three consecutive weeks of declines. Combined comparable buying and selling quantity on Kalshi and Polymarket Global elevated 5.8% from the earlier week, reaching $10.30 billion. Kalshi remained the clear market chief, accounting for 81.3% of mixed comparable quantity, whereas Polymarket Global posted its first weekly enhance in a…
Key Takeaways ▸ Kalshi crossed $100 billion in lifetime notional quantity and recorded its first-ever billion-dollar single days on Saturday and Sunday, pushed by World Cup group-stage buying and selling and NBA/NHL finals. ▸ Kalshi posted $6.38B in weekly notional for the week of June 8, up 43% week over week and the most important…
The 2026 World Cup is projected to attract greater than $2.5 billion in buying and selling quantity throughout US prediction markets, with Kalshi taking in an estimated $1.47 billion of it, in keeping with DeFi Rate projections. As a world occasion that has traditionally drawn restricted US curiosity, it arrives at the actual second these…
Key numbers this week ▸ Kalshi and Polymarket mixed for $5.64 billion in weekly notional quantity throughout the week of May 18, whereas Kalshi rose 3% to $3.99 billion and stayed on tempo to problem its month-to-month document set in April. ▸ Polymarket fell 15% to $1.65 billion, pushing Kalshi’s share of mixed quantity to…
As May 26 races for federal and state positions warmth up in Texas, the buying and selling motion at Kalshi has picked up as properly. Markets overlaying a number of partisan Texas primaries have drawn greater than $24.2 million in cumulative quantity. While markets for November’s basic elections can be found as properly, many of…
Sean Strickland beat Khamzat Chimaev by break up choice Saturday evening in Newark to reclaim the UFC middleweight title. On Kalshi, the battle drew $51.8 million in contract quantity and $19.0 million in precise money exchanged throughout greater than 280,000 trades. Most of the trades backed Chimaev, together with the largest particular person contracts too….
The weekly whole dipped barely, however the extra telling story is Kalshi and Polymarket moved in reverse instructions this week, pushed by unrelated forces. Kalshi posted $2.93B in notional quantity, its highest single-week whole within the DeFi Rate monitoring interval, whereas Polymarket pulled again to $2.34B. Together they totaled $5.28B for the week of March…
Prediction markets look like consolidating, posting $5.25 billion throughout all tracked platforms for the week ending Feb. 22. The weekly quantity was primarily flat in opposition to the $5.33 billion posted the prior week, and it marks the second consecutive week with no significant swing in both course after the Super Bowl unwind. But a…