$BLLB | $MORE ✨ Prediction Vegas brings it all into the real world with a physical location on Las Vegas Blvd dedicated to prediction markets. 👀🔥

GOLD JUST FLIPPED ETHER ON KALSHI!! Gold is making an unexpected move in prediction markets. Kalshi’s newly launched 15-minute gold markets reportedly generated around 542 million contracts in September, overtaking Ether’s 318 million contracts. The gold markets also generated an estimated $5 million in fees, compared with roughly $2.6 million from Ether. The interesting part is how quickly gold gained traction. These short-term markets allow users to speculate on whether gold prices will move up or down within a very small time window. While Bitcoin still remains far ahead in overall activity on the platform, gold’s rapid rise shows that traders are increasingly interested in making short-term bets on traditional assets not just crypto. Crypto may have pioneered prediction-market excitement, but gold is proving that the appetite for fast markets goes far beyond digital assets.

@Polymarket Launches Protocol V2 as It Expands Beyond $POL Polymarket changes an essential part of its crypto infrastructure. The platform deploys Protocol V2, a new smart contract architecture intended to gradually replace a system based on code dating back to 2019. pUSD becomes the sole collateral, several types of markets can operate on the same exchange, and a future expansion beyond Polygon is already planned. Initial tests are underway.

prediction markets roundup - verifact markets emerged from stealth with a prediction market platform focused on allowing users to trade on disputed historical facts - kalshi launched a new perpetual futures contract tied to the u.s. stock index as part of its expansion beyond event-based prediction markets - polymarket began rolling out "protocol v2," a smart-contract overhaul designed to make it easier to launch new types of markets as it rebuilds its trading infrastructure - kalshi's 15-minute gold markets surpassed its equivalent ether markets in september with 542 million contracts traded and $5 million in generated fees just weeks after launching - draftkings stock jumped after bank of america upgraded it, downplaying competitive threats from prediction markets which update stands out most?

One thing I’ve been paying attention to with @Wahoopredict is how prediction markets can evolve beyond simply choosing between “yes” or “no.” The upcoming Multiple Selection feature is interesting in that regard. Instead of forcing a prediction into a binary outcome, it can give users more ways to express where they think the probability actually sits. That becomes even more interesting as WahooPredict covers markets across crypto, sports, stocks, commodities and real-world events. Prediction markets are ultimately about expressing conviction under uncertainty. The better the market design, the more accurately people can communicate that conviction. So I’m curious: will Multiple Selection become one of the features that makes WahooPredict meaningfully different from other prediction platforms?

🟣 @0xPolygon is easily 285x undervalued 👀 Cc: @sandeepnailwal @0xMarcB 🙌 🧠 $30+ / $POL is easily the floor In the past 7 days, @0xPolygon has had more stablecoin transactions* than Ethereum L1, more than Base and Arbitrum combined. - @growthepie_eth Grok: “If #Polygon had Ethereum’s current market cap of about $329 billion, its price would be roughly $31. That uses a circulating supply of about 10.63 billion POL POL is trading near $0.108, so that level would be about 285× the current price. Fully diluted value is almost the same, because nearly the full supply is already circulating.”

🚨 KALSHI IS CHANGING THE US STOCK MARKET The first US stock index perpetual just launched. You can now trade the US 500 with: → No expirations → No contract rollovers → Easy long/short exposure → One concentrated liquidity pool Prediction markets let traders trade the events moving stocks. Now Kalshi lets them trade the MARKET itself. TradFi is adopting crypto market structure.

As U.S. states tighten the legal noose around sports betting contracts and global jurisdictions impose restrictions, the platform’s focus on regulated, event-based trading offers a safer, more sustainable path for sophisticated capital in an increasingly volatile landscape.

Polymarket Rolls Out V2 Protocol Upgrade Polymarket has started testing Protocol V2 with production canary markets, replacing its 2019 Gnosis-based framework with a redesigned architecture. The upgrade uses a single ERC-1155 positions contract, pUSD as collateral, dedicated exchanges for four market types and a new router. V2 initially supports Binary, Atomic Neg-risk, Incremental Neg-risk and Combinatorial markets, with a new OracleAggregator connecting to UMA, Chainlink and other data sources. Canary markets will run through October 30, with Polymarket tentatively targeting November 2 for V2 to handle new markets.