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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
BTC large holder account long-short ratio is 1.1427
CoinWorld data: The latest snapshot of BTCUSDT on the 4-hour timeframe shows that among the top 20% of accounts by margin balance, the long-short account ratio is 1.1427, with more net long accounts among large holders. Compared with the same-caliber snapshot 24 hours ago, it decreased by 0.0274.
Wikipedia's operator says OpenAI's "rogue" bot may be linked to some of May's outages
Coin World News reports that the Wikimedia Foundation has stated it has discovered some activities of OpenAI's "rogue" agents on its platforms, including edits to Wikipedia, "unsuccessful attempts" to "exploit" the Etherpad note-taking tool hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation, and high traffic that may have contributed to some of the outages that occurred in May. Nevertheless, the Wikimedia Foundation said it has not found evidence that its systems were "used to coordinate."
The Wikimedia Foundation says it has discovered "rogue" AI agent activity from OpenAI.
According to news from Bijie, the Wikimedia Foundation has stated that it has discovered activity on its platforms by a suspected "rogue" AI agent operated by OpenAI, including editing wiki pages, attempting to use the public note-taking tool (Etherpad) to obtain external data, and downloading data in large quantities through APIs and query services. The Foundation said that most of these activities involved sandbox testing areas, and no intrusion into Wikimedia systems or data was found, nor is there evidence that its platforms were used for coordinated communication between AI agents. However, the Foundation said that the related behavior may cause server pressure and resource consumption, and increase the security risks faced by open web platforms. The Wikimedia Foundation said that OpenAI and other AI companies need to strengthen monitoring and protection of agent systems to prevent similar behavior from becoming the norm.
Hive Digital Technologies转型AI算力，获5.7亿美元订单
According to CoinWorld news, Hive Digital Technologies, through its subsidiary Buzz HPC, is converting its mining farm into GPU cloud services and has signed orders totaling $570 million. Among them, in June it signed a $220 million agreement with Bell AI Fabric to deploy 2,304 NVIDIA Grace Blackwell GPUs for Cohere, and in August it signed a $350 million agreement with an unnamed enterprise involving 2,016 GB300 GPUs. Hive plans to build a 320-megawatt AI superfactory in the Toronto area, with an investment of approximately CAD 3.5 billion, expected to begin operations in the second half of 2027.
The Trump administration is injecting funds into collapsing nuclear energy stocks.
According to news from Bijie, the Trump administration has injected funds into collapsing nuclear energy stocks, and many listed nuclear energy companies that received loans, contracts, or fiscal incentives have seen their share prices decline since obtaining this support. Over the past year, the Trump administration has provided tens of billions of dollars in incentives to the nuclear energy industry, including the $4.2 billion federal loan announced today to Ohio nuclear plant operator Vistra. Vistra's stock price has fallen 9% year to date. In addition, an $80 billion proposal between Cameco and Brookfield Asset Management was supposed to give the U.S. government 20% of future profits or equity. Cameco's stock price has fallen 3% year to date. Although its stock price rose 22% when the deal was announced, it is currently down 12% from the announcement date. Brookfield Asset Management, as the second party to the deal, has lost 15% year to date.
The CFTC plans to introduce new crypto market rules.
Coin World News reports that the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) plans to establish a new set of federal crypto market regulatory rules after Congress failed to pass comprehensive crypto market structure legislation. The CFTC published an advanced notice of proposed rulemaking on Sunday, inviting public comment on two regulatory regimes it plans to introduce: Crypto Asset Trading Regulation (CTX) and Crypto Asset Market Regulation (CAM). CFTC Chairman Michael Selig said today's action is an important step for the CFTC to ensure the United States continues to be the global crypto capital. The CFTC's current focus is on retail trading involving margin, leverage, or other financing, rather than traditional cryptocurrency spot trading.
Bitcoin's market cap dominance stands at 58.67%.
According to Bijie.com data: Under Bijie.com's unified market methodology, Bitcoin's market capitalization accounts for 58.67% of the total cryptocurrency market capitalization.
BTC perpetual contract open interest totals 15.494 billion USD.
According to CoinWorld data, under the statistical methodology of selected mainstream platforms, the total notional open interest of BTC USDT-margined perpetual contracts is 15.494 billion USD.
CFTC Chairman Mike Selig advocates for proactive rules to prevent an FTX-style event.
CoinWorld news, CFTC Chairman Mike Selig said that the FTX incident should have been prevented through proactive rulemaking rather than litigation, and emphasized that the United States should not have to choose between innovation and protecting participants.