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The future of betting on real world events is coming soon to traditional brokerage accounts.
What’s happening:
- Prediction market Kalshi has officially won approval to integrate their prediction markets with traditional brokerages in the United States of America
Why it matters:
- Integrating prediction markets into traditional brokerage accounts will dramatically increase the amount of individuals who have access to wagering on real world events and unlock enormous amounts of new potential capital inflows
Going deeper:
- Prediction markets have quickly become an enormously lucrative business, which previously led Robinhood (NASDAQ: HOOD) to roll out the ability to wager on the presidential election
- Donald Trump Jr recently made waves when he became an official advisor to Kalshi in an effort to scale up the popular prediction market as well as navigate regulatory challenges
The fine print:
- It is not yet clear which brokerages will initially be integrating Kalshi into their platforms or when exactly the first launch with an American brokerage will occur
