New Game on the Field: Can Prediction Markets Shake the Deep Water of U.S. Sports Business?
1. Booming Market: Kalshi & Polymarket October 2025 trading volume on the two largest U.S. prediction-market venues jumped more than 90 % month-over-month, with sports contracts driving the spike. Polymarket is raising a new round that would value the firm at USD 12-15 B, while Kalshi was last priced at roughly USD 2 B. Both platforms now treat sports as their core growth engine. --- 2. First Mover: NHL Signs Official Data Deal The National Hockey League became the first “Big-Four” league to ...
New Game on the Field: Can Prediction Markets Shake the Deep Water of U.S. Sports Business?
1. Booming Market: Kalshi & Polymarket October 2025 trading volume on the two largest U.S. prediction-market venues jumped more than 90 % month-over-month, with sports contracts driving the spike. Polymarket is raising a new round that would value the firm at USD 12-15 B, while Kalshi was last priced at roughly USD 2 B. Both platforms now treat sports as their core growth engine. --- 2. First Mover: NHL Signs Official Data Deal The National Hockey League became the first “Big-Four” league to ...
Why AI is DeFi’s Next Milestone?
As DeFi expands in scale and complexity, AI-driven "Agentic Finance" is becoming a key direction to lower the barrier of entry for users. This article systematically analyzes the current development and core challenges of two types of intelligent agents: Co-pilot Agents Platforms like &milo, The Hive, and Meridian assist users with investment decisions, asset rebalancing, and more through natural language processing. However, they still face issues such as execution errors, data latency, and ...
Why AI is DeFi’s Next Milestone?
As DeFi expands in scale and complexity, AI-driven "Agentic Finance" is becoming a key direction to lower the barrier of entry for users. This article systematically analyzes the current development and core challenges of two types of intelligent agents: Co-pilot Agents Platforms like &milo, The Hive, and Meridian assist users with investment decisions, asset rebalancing, and more through natural language processing. However, they still face issues such as execution errors, data latency, and ...
Flying Tulip: AC’s New Exchange – Funded by DeFi T-Bills, Backed by a Perpetual Put
The Elevator Pitch Andre Cronje’s latest laboratory is building a full-stack crypto exchange (spot, perps, options, lending, structured yield) without ever touching VC runway. Instead, the team is raising $1 bn by selling a single token – FT – that doubles as a perpetual American put option struck at the original sale price. Proceeds go into low-risk DeFi strategies (≈ 4 %). The coupons pay salaries, server bills and token buy-backs until trading-fee cash flow takes over. If price < strike, r...
Flying Tulip: AC’s New Exchange – Funded by DeFi T-Bills, Backed by a Perpetual Put
The Elevator Pitch Andre Cronje’s latest laboratory is building a full-stack crypto exchange (spot, perps, options, lending, structured yield) without ever touching VC runway. Instead, the team is raising $1 bn by selling a single token – FT – that doubles as a perpetual American put option struck at the original sale price. Proceeds go into low-risk DeFi strategies (≈ 4 %). The coupons pay salaries, server bills and token buy-backs until trading-fee cash flow takes over. If price < strike, r...
The Great Silicon Swap: Peter Thiel’s Quiet Coup in Crypto-America
I. The Empty Chair at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue On 4 Sept 2025 the White House tech round-table looked like a Founders Fund off-site:Figma CEO—Thiel FellowScale AI—cap-table’d by FFDavid “Crypto-Czar” Sacks—PayPal Mafia consigliereZuckerberg—Thiel’s seed-check turned Meta-empirePalantir—prime contractor for Trump’s “Gold Dome” AI shieldThe only missing face was the don himself: Peter Thiel. Absence is power; the org-chart now answers to an empty chair.II. 15 Years of Dark-Money Chess While the...
The Great Silicon Swap: Peter Thiel’s Quiet Coup in Crypto-America
I. The Empty Chair at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue On 4 Sept 2025 the White House tech round-table looked like a Founders Fund off-site:Figma CEO—Thiel FellowScale AI—cap-table’d by FFDavid “Crypto-Czar” Sacks—PayPal Mafia consigliereZuckerberg—Thiel’s seed-check turned Meta-empirePalantir—prime contractor for Trump’s “Gold Dome” AI shieldThe only missing face was the don himself: Peter Thiel. Absence is power; the org-chart now answers to an empty chair.II. 15 Years of Dark-Money Chess While the...
How to Spot a “Valuable” Prediction Market: Three Essential Filters
Editor’s Note Prediction-market protocols are multiplying—Polymarket, Kalshi, Zeitgeist—each flashing big numbers and bigger promises. At first glance they look like perfect “future-information aggregators” where you can both bet on tomorrow and mine the wisdom of crowds. But not every market deserves your time or capital. Here is a concise, battle-tested checklist: three lenses for deciding whether a platform is truly worthwhile.1. Market Design: Structure, Mechanism and Clarity A well-desig...
How to Spot a “Valuable” Prediction Market: Three Essential Filters
Editor’s Note Prediction-market protocols are multiplying—Polymarket, Kalshi, Zeitgeist—each flashing big numbers and bigger promises. At first glance they look like perfect “future-information aggregators” where you can both bet on tomorrow and mine the wisdom of crowds. But not every market deserves your time or capital. Here is a concise, battle-tested checklist: three lenses for deciding whether a platform is truly worthwhile.1. Market Design: Structure, Mechanism and Clarity A well-desig...
