Does World Liberty Financial Count as Trump ‘Launching a Coin’? Polymarket Bettors Are Divided
Plus, a look at how PoliFi tokens are doing compared to prediction markets; there might be another #election2024 up north.
Election 2024
Trump-Supported World Liberty Financial Will Start Public Token Sale Next Week
The WLFI token sale will be open for everyone who has been qualified through the project’s whitelist.
Trump’s Lead Over Harris Widens on Polymarket’s Prediction Market
His odds of winning the U.S. presidential election have soared to a more than two-month high.
Trump Leads Harris on Polymarket After Musk Endorsement, but Trails in This Key State
Elon Musk says that prediction markets are more accurate than polls.
U.S. Election Betting: Regulated Presidential Markets Are Live, and Tiny Compared to Polymarket’s
With a month to go before Election Day, Kalshi and Interactive Brokers have listed prediction markets on the race for the White House.
Kamala Harris’s Unrealized Capital Gains Tax Would Hurt All Crypto Investors
The proposed 25% levy would hurt early investors in bitcoin and lead to a selloff in the wider market, says Zac Townsend, CEO and co-founder of Meanwhile.
U.S. Election Betting: Kalshi Preps Presidential Prediction Markets After Re-Launching Congressional Contracts
The CFTC “has failed to demonstrate that it or the public will suffer irreparable injury absent a stay pending appeal,” an appeals court said, clearing the prediction market to resume listing the contracts.
Trump Inches Closer to Harris on Polymarket as Betting Passes $1 Billion
Kamala Harris only leads by one percentage point, but is set to carry most of the swing states.
Crypto Poll: U.S. Voters More Serious About Demanding Candidates With Know-How
A new industry-funded poll underlines the rising role of crypto in the thinking of likely voters in the 2024 U.S. elections – and the mention of digital assets by the presidential candidates of both major parties suggests the campaigns are aware of that.
Crypto PACs Dominate Ohio Senate Race, Spending $40M on Sherrod Brown’s Foe
The colossal campaign spending from the cryptocurrency industry is showing up in dominant fashion in Ohio’s U.S. Senate race, where its political action committees have devoted $40 million to support Republican Bernie Moreno’s opposition of Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), the crypto-skeptical chairman of the Senate Banking Committee.