The Event Horizon Podcast

Episode 31: News With Front Office Sports’ Ben Horney; Data With Grandstand’s Matt Restivo

Ben Horney of Front Office Sports stopped by to talk about recent developments in prediction markets. And Matt Restivo — SVP of Sports Data Services at Grandstand — chatt

Episode 30: Is Prediction Markets Vs. States Coming To SCOTUS?

The Ninth Circuit delivered bad news to Kalshi on Friday, as the prediction market company lost its appeal to Nevada. Where does the legal battle for prediction markets g

Episode 29: Innovation-Maxxing At The CFTC

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission got a bunch of important people in prediction markets together for a meeting in Washington, DC. Did we learn anything? Why were p

Episode 28: Prediction Market Policy With Aaron Klein Of The Brookings Institution

The Brookings Institution’s Aaron Klein stopped by to talk about all things prediction markets (starts at the 47-minute mark). He is a senior fellow at Brookings’ Center

Episode 27: Interview With ProphetX Co-Founder Jake Benzaquen

There are endless stories and hot takes about people betting on wildfires…even though no one is actually offering markets on fires. And there are lots of people yelling a

Episode 26: Stakes Are High For Prediction Markets As Court Battles Intensify

It was a busy week in court for prediction markets, from a big lawsuit from the New York attorney general to a win for Kalshi in Minnesota. Daniel O’Boyle of InGame and D

Episode 25: Betting On LeBron James' Next Team Got Really Big At Prediction Markets

I’ll be at NEXTPredict in October; a lot of big names and smart people from the prediction markets industry will be there. Get your tickets now for 15% off using this lin

Episode 24: Should Betting On Flight Cancellations Be Grounded?

Unfortunately, we recorded the podcast before all hell broke loose with the Trump teleprompter operator story. But we did talk about betting on flight cancellations, whic

Episode 23: Silliness In Prediction Markets About Spotify

Did you know you can bet on Kalshi on how many Spotify streams artists will get? Well, of course you can, because you can bet on almost anything on Kalshi. But what happe

Episode 22: Kalshi Did A Deal With FIFA... Or Did It?

Daniel O’Boyle of InGame and I did an “emergency” podcast today to deal with all of the news that dropped on Friday morning. That includes a deal between Kalshi and FIFA…

Episode 21: Kalshi Volume Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop Growing

Daniel O’Boyle of InGame and I break down recent news in prediction markets, including Kalshi nearing $9 billion in weekly volume, new exchanges getting a green light, an

Episode 20: George Santos + Prediction Markets? Really?

Daniel O’Boyle of InGame and I are still trying to process that the prediction markets news cycle now includes George Santos, somehow. We break down all the recent news i

Episode 19: Inside The Latest Polymarket Insider Trading Case

The Polymarket-Google fiasco: https://www.ingame.com/google-engineer-polymarket-insider-trading/ https://nexteventhorizon.substack.com/p/the-polymarket-google-case-and-

Episode 18: Senators, CAOCs And Survivor Betting

Senators talking prediction markets: https://closingline.substack.com/p/senators-were-fired-up-about-prediction-markets-at-hearing Combinatoric Athletic Outcome Contract

Episode 17: Everyone Is Putting Kalshi Volume Under The Microscope

Breaking down Kalshi retail handle and parlays: https://www.ingame.com/kalshis-true-betting-handle-draftkings-fanduel/ https://www.sportico.com/business/sports-betting/2

Episode 16: The Big Sportsbooks Talk A Big Game On Prediction Market Plans

FanDuel and DraftKings on prediction markets:https://nexteventhorizon.substack.com/p/what-we-learned-about-fanduel-and-prediction-markets-q1https://nexteventhorizon.subst

Episode 15: Everyone Has A Comment On Prediction Markets

Everyone had comments for the CFTC on prediction markets rule making: https://nexteventhorizon.substack.com/p/the-most-interesting-comments-on-cftc-rulemaking-for-predict

Episode 14: Candidates And A Soldier Betting On Themselves Is A Problem

Soldier arrested for Maduro betting: https://nexteventhorizon.substack.com/p/us-soldier-arrested-for-maduro-bets Three candidates caught betting on themselves: https://n

Prediction Markets Provide Signal Amid Chaos In California Governor's Race

Fox + Kalshi…but no elections? https://nexteventhorizon.substack.com/p/fox-news-has-a-kalshi-deal White House warns people not to insider trade on PMs https://www.wsj.

Episode 12: What Novig Is Doing With Its $75M Round, With CEO Jacob Fortinsky

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