Decentralized Prediction Markets: The crypto Ecosystem’s New Dominant Narrative?
Prediction markets were once treated as crypto curiosities, clever but marginal. That description no longer fits. The bigger story is that speculation has started to look like infrastructure. Reuters reported recently that Intercontinental Exchange, parent of the New York Stock Exchange, invested $600 million in Polymarket as event trading moved from a niche corner of […]
Coinbase adds stock trading and prediction markets in ‘everything app’ push
Coinbase adds stock trading and prediction markets as part of a broader push to become an “everything app” and “everything exchange”, a move rolled out around December 17, 2025. The step integrates equities and event-based contracts into the platform, widening investor options and aiming to diversify revenue away from crypto-only trading.
Coinbase Prepares to Launch Prediction Markets and Tokenized Stocks
Coinbase is preparing to introduce prediction markets and tokenized stocks, signaling a strategic expansion into event-driven trading and asset tokenization. The move has implications for market structure, liquidity, and compliance, and frames key decisions around design, execution, and oversight. How settlement, custody, and verification are implemented will shape participation and adoption.
Polymarket hiring in-house trading team risks market integrity and user trust
Polymarket’s plan to staff an in-house trading desk to trade against customers raises immediate conflict-of-interest and market-integrity concerns, with measurable signs already visible in platform metrics and its regulatory record. The move intersects with prior findings that at times more than 60% of reported volume in certain markets was linked to wash trading, a figure […]