By Aliyu Pokima Key highlights: Ex-Zora CEO Jacob Horne has joined Polymarket to rebuild Polymarket DeFi and its onchain product CEO Shayne Coplan acknowledged that Polymarket’s onchain product has waned as the company expanded its US business The move comes alongside a broader infrastructure overhaul, including a rewrite of Polymarket’s trading engine in Rust to […]
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By Jose Oramas Prediction markets have stopped being a niche crypto experiment for some time now, and they’ve ventured well into the mainstream. They’re even cited in political debates, news channels, and just about everywhere on social media. Even regulated exchanges are competing with on-chain protocols for the same traders, and the biggest sportsbooks and […]
By Marco Piccolo Key highlights: Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), parent company of the New York Stock Exchange, is investing $2 billion in blockchain-based prediction platform Polymarket. The deal gives Polymarket a post-money valuation of $9 billion and signals ICE’s growing interest in tokenization and crypto-native financial infrastructure. ICE and Polymarket will collaborate on future blockchain-based initiatives […]