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<span>Prediction markets have exploded into the mainstream media, with odds now regularly quoted on cable news, in wire copy and in equity research notes.</span> <span>That’s why </span><a href="https://nextpredict.io/summits/the-worlds-prediction-markets-summit/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow external noopener" class="sc-adb616fe-0 dJryYS">><span>NEXTPredict</span></a><span>, which runs on October 22 and 23 at Convene, Hudson Yards in New York, has put working reporters on the program rather than in a press room behind it. </span><i><span>CNBC</span></i><span> correspondent Contessa Brewer and </span><i><span>CNN</span></i><span> senior reporter Marshall Cohen were</span> <a href="https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2026/08/19/3347708/0/en/experts-from-robinhood-microsoft-research-binance-us-cnn-and-cnbc-join-nextpredict-october-summit.html" target="_blank" class="sc-adb616fe-0 dJryYS" rel="nofollow"><span>added</span></a><span> in August, booked around the midterms. Organizers expect more than 50 speakers and 2,500 attendees, “bringing the category to broader audiences,” in the words of </span><a href="http://next.io" target="_blank" rel="nofollow external noopener" class="sc-adb616fe-0 dJryYS">><span>NEXT.io</span></a><span> co-founder and managing director Pierre Lindh.</span> <span>Prediction market stories are serious news that ordinary readers actually want, Lindh</span> <a href="https://www.predictcentr.com/must-read/nextpredict-pierre-lindh-kalshi-hedge/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow external noopener" class="sc-adb616fe-0 dJryYS">><span>told</span></a><span> PredictCentr in August, reaching an audience far larger than the iGaming trade he came from, and "nobody was serving it with real journalistic standards."</span> <span>The summit programme was built the same way. A “healthy part” of the main stage had to carry content national broadcasters would send a crew for, he said, because "B2B panel content does not move a national desk." The media plan has since grown from 50 passes to between 100 and 200. </span> <span>With the midterms dominating the headlines around prediction markets while the agenda’s focus is on market structure, he concedes that there’s a dichotomy at play, noting that, “the story that gets the summit on air is not the story delegates are paying to be in the room for, and both have to be true at the same time.”</span> <span>While the category has mainstream distribution, there’s a gap between media presence and the actual user base of prediction market platforms.</span> <span>Polymarket’s monthly active users sit around 283,300,</span> <a href="https://tokenterminal.com/explorer/projects/polymarket/metrics/user-mau" target="_blank" rel="nofollow external noopener" class="sc-adb616fe-0 dJryYS">><span>measured</span></a><span> by Token Terminal as unique addresses making a revenue-generating transaction, down from a peak above 750,000 in the spring. Acquisition spikes around events—but participation does n
AMD off-exchange short sale volume ratio reported at 62.73%
CoinWorld US stock data: AMD's off-exchange short selling volume accounted for 62.73% that day.
Market News: NEXUS Advanced Technologies Signs Exclusive Reverse Merger Agreement with U.S. Defense Technology Company
Coin World News, market news: NEXUS Advanced Technologies has signed an exclusive reverse merger agreement with a U.S. defense technology company.
The UK Financial Conduct Authority said it has not renewed its short-term contract with Palantir concerning technology and financial crime.
According to CoinWorld news, the UK Financial Conduct Authority said it has not renewed its short-term contract with Palantir regarding technology and financial crime.
The protocol's fees over the past 24 hours were reported at $75.3109 million.
According to Bijie data: within the period, the protocol's fees over the past 24 hours were 75.3109 million USD, an increase of 3.82% compared with the previous statistical period under the same methodology.
Upbit will list NMR Korean Won and USDT trading pairs.
CoinWorld news: Upbit has announced that it will list NMR Korean Won and USDT trading pairs.
Shiba Inu燃烧率激增6847%，2.97亿SHIB被销毁
According to data from Bijie.com: Shiba Inu burned over 297 million SHIB in the past 24 hours, with the burn rate surging by 6847.52%. According to Shibburn data, a single burn transaction accounted for 297,572,672 SHIB. In addition, Uniswap burned 111,542, Coinbase burned 2,622,378, and Robinhood burned 179,289. Over the past seven days, a total of 394.28 million SHIB was burned, with the weekly burn rate rising by 1,821.15%. Over the past 30 days, the total burn amount reached 666.97 million. Shiba Inu recently launched on Solana, allowing users to trade SHIB directly within Solana's decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystem.
SOL large holder account long-short ratio is 1.9334
CoinWorld data: The latest 4-hour snapshot for SOLUSDT shows that among the top 20% of accounts by margin balance, the long-short account ratio is 1.9334, with more net long accounts among large holders. Compared with the same-caliber snapshot 24 hours ago, it rose by 0.1471.
What happens to the S&P 500 when companies become too large?
Coinpaper reports that as companies continue to grow in scale, certain large-cap stocks may come to dominate the returns of the S&P 500. The weights of the S&P 500 index are adjusted based on free-float market capitalization, so the larger a company's market value, the greater its influence on the index. On August 31, 2026, the largest S&P 500 constituent accounted for approximately 8.1% of the index, while the top ten companies together accounted for about 37.8%. This means the S&P 500 index may increasingly resemble a portfolio dominated by a small number of large companies. With the rise of the AI boom, large technology companies such as Nvidia, Microsoft, and Apple have taken on significant positions in the benchmark index. S&P Dow Jones Indices offers different weighted benchmarks, but the main index typically allows market-cap concentration to develop naturally. Quarterly rebalancing does not automatically push the largest companies back to equal weights. Instead, equal-weight indices periodically reset each position to roughly the same size.
ETH large holder account long-short ratio is 1.429
CoinWorld data: The latest 4-hour snapshot for ETHUSDT shows that among the top 20% of accounts by margin balance, the long-short account ratio is 1.429, with more net long accounts among large holders. Compared with the same-caliber snapshot 24 hours ago, it rose by 0.1056.