💥 A $10B war is raging over the future of truth. Kalshi (CFTC-regulated) vs Polymarket (Web3-native). But the real battle is infra—🔮 oracles, 💧 liquidity, 📜 regulation. Full playbook👇

TLDR👇 1/10 🧮 What are prediction markets (really)? Their price dispersed narratives into probabilities—unlike gambling/binaries, you can trade, hedge, and get information as a public good.

2/10 📉 Why they matter now US media trust at lows → “truth with skin in the game” 💵. 2024 election: PMs became real-time quant complements; Polymarket’s Brier scores tightened near resolution 📏.

3/10 📈 The market’s arc Entertainment → Election peak (Nov ’24) → Post-election slump → 2025 repricing & institutionalization. Weekly volume rebounded from < $0.5B to > $2B.

4/10 👥 Behavior shift Sports 🏟️ & politics 🗳️ now dwarf crypto-only topics. Profiles diverge: Polymarket = balanced ⚖️; Kalshi = 85–90% sports with weekend spikes 📅.

5/10 🧰 Polymarket playbook Polygon + USDC + UMA 🔗; AMM→CLOB 🔁 for depth; 2% performance fee 💵 at resolution; holding rewards 🕰️; QCEX deal to re-enter the US 🇺🇸.

6/10 🏛️ Kalshi playbook DCM + DCO 🪪; fiat & USDC 💵; maker-friendly fees 🧲; deep books (<0.1% slippage) 📚; distribution via Robinhood/Webull 🤝.

7/10 🚀 New challengers & the long tail Opinion (BNB) 🟡 rocketed to #3; Limitless/PredictBase (Base) 🔵 push short-horizon price markets; PMX (Solana) 🟣 grafts AMMs & token rails. The Prediction-Market Ecosystem: Trading Bots on Polymarket

9/10 🧩 Where the alpha is (infra > platform) Next-gen oracles 🧠, arbitration 🧑⚖️, liquidity-as-a-service 💧, cross-market terminals/bots 🤖, social SDKs 🧰, compliance tech 🛡️, and the AI ↔ PM flywheel 🔁.

10/10 ✅ Bottom line Endgame isn’t one mega-platform—it’s an embedded information layer 🧵📰📈 across news, social, trading & governance. Builders who solve truth, liquidity, and compliance win 🏆. Full report👇 [ #PredictionMarkets #Polymarket #Kalshi #Web3 #CryptoResearch