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Stevie Bonifield

is a news writer covering each things user tech. Stevie started retired astatine Laptop Mag penning news and reviews connected hardware, gaming, and AI.

Kalshi is facing backlash from its ain users aft a people action lawsuit was revenge past week alleging it grounded to salary retired arsenic promised for wagers regarding erstwhile Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei would time off aliases beryllium removed from office. Khamenei was killed successful strikes connected Iran past month, but according to nan lawsuit, Kalshi didn’t instrumentality a “death carveout” until aft Khamenei had died.

Meanwhile, Kalshi is reportedly moving to pull much women to its level successful an effort to turn its personification base. As nan Wall Street Journal reported connected Sunday, nan percent of women utilizing Kalshi has doubled complete nan past 10 months, increasing from 13 percent to 26 percent of Kalshi’s full users. According to Kalshi co-founder Luana Lopes Lara, that displacement involves “catering to [women’s] interests and expertise successful ways that accepted financial markets haven’t.”

Here are immoderate different headlines from nan past week successful news astir Polymarket, Kalshi, and prediction markets:

Competition betwixt Kalshi and Polymarket goes each nan measurement up to nan platforms’ CEOs, Tarek Mansour and Shayne Coplan, respectively. According to NPR, Mansour is avoiding moreover saying nan connection “Polymarket” publicly. The 2 companies are besides competing for nan trademarked title of “world’s largest prediction market.”
Kalshi and Polymarket person some launched arena contracts allowing users to bet connected stocks and indexes connected nan S&P 500.
Sports betting is gaining fame connected assemblage campuses, pinch immoderate students burning truthful overmuch money they dishonesty to family members, shade their friends, aliases autumn down successful their classes.
Sports betting level DraftKings announced during a virtual investor time past week that it’s readying to motorboat a caller ace app called “DraftKings Sports & Casino” that will connection prediction markets, successful a bid to compete pinch Kalshi and Polymarket.
Churchill Downs Incorporated, which owns nan racetrack that’s location to nan Kentucky Derby, is pushing backmost against prediction markets, pinch CDI CEO Bill Carstanjen saying “you request our definitive consent” to spot wagers connected equine races crossed immoderate platform. According to nan 1978 Interstate Horseracing Act, off-track wagers, which could see those connected prediction markets, require anterior consent from nan big racing association, big racing commission, and off-track racing commission.

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