Step-by-step explainers for reading odds, choosing a platform and managing risk.
Mention markets pay out if a speaker says a given word: in a Trump speech, an earnings call or a Fed press conference. How they resolve, why the fine print decides everything, the teleprompter insider case, Kalshi’s pause on sports mentions and the CFTC’s September 2026 advisory.
Where you can legally bet on elections in the US, how to read election odds, how accurate the markets were in 2024 and in New York’s 2025 mayoral race, and what Kalshi and Polymarket say about the 2026 midterms and the 2028 presidential election. With charts from the markets’ own price history.
Sports are now most of the money on prediction markets. How sports event contracts work, what they cost against a sportsbook’s vig, where they are legal state by state, the court fight heading for the Supreme Court, and which apps offer them. With charts.
OpenClaw, the open-source AI agent, can trade Polymarket through add-on “skills”. What those skills do, how PolyClaw works, why researchers found hundreds of malicious skills posing as Polymarket bots, and a safety checklist before you give an agent your wallet.
The Kalshi app is rated about 4.8 stars from more than 600,000 App Store ratings. How to download it, what it does, deposits and withdrawals, age and state rules, how it compares with Polymarket and Robinhood, and the common problems.
How to tell whether Kalshi is down or the problem is on your side: the exchange status Kalshi publishes, its weekly maintenance window, where outages are announced, what happened in past outages, and what happens to your orders.
Polymarket US started invite-only, but since May 2026 eligible Americans can sign up without a code. What referral and promo codes actually do, what bonuses are worth, how Polymarket’s referral program works, and the scams to avoid.
Kalshi runs an official Discord with tens of thousands of members, but it is a community, not the support desk. What the Discord is for, how to reach Kalshi support (in-app chat and email), what to include, and the fake-support scams to avoid.
How to reach a real person at Polymarket: the website chat, a private Discord ticket, and what to try first for deposits, withdrawals and disputed markets. Plus the fake-support scams that target Polymarket users.
