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MARKET INFRASTRUCTURE · LISTED EXPOSURE · PRIMARY SOURCES

Prediction Market
Industry Monitor.

Who operates the markets? Who provides access, capital or infrastructure? And when does a theme become an observable capital-markets segment?

10 providers 8 Public Companies 1 Dedicated ETF 6 Primary-source signals

01 / PROVIDER REGISTRY

A trading venue is not the same as a platform.

Active, virtual and historical providers are distinguished by market model, access and regulatory nature—not by their chosen brand description.

10 entries
Provider Type & model Access & regulation Assessment
Active Kalshi
Regulated trading venue Order book · Event Contracts
USA · eligibility-based CFTC · DCM

Private company; events spanning politics, economics, sport and culture.

Source / profile
Active Polymarket
Crypto-native market Order book · blockchain
Jurisdiction-dependent US re-entry through regulated infrastructure

Globally visible market-implied probabilities; the platform remains privately held.

Source / profile
Active ForecastEx
Regulated trading venue Complementary YES/NO contracts
Via Interactive Brokers CFTC · DCM & DCO

Economic, climate and political Forecast Contracts integrated with broker infrastructure.

Source / profile
Active CME Group Event Contracts
Exchange infrastructure Event Futures
Via brokers CFTC-regulated environment

Event-based contracts within established futures infrastructure.

Source / profile
Active Robinhood Prediction Markets
Distribution Hub Integrated retail access
USA · product-dependent Partner-/venue-dependent

Prediction markets as a product area within a multi-asset platform.

Source / profile
Active / special model PredictIt
Political prediction market Central marketplace
USA · limited Historical academic framework

Politics-focused markets; regulatory status must be tracked separately.

Source / profile
Active Metaculus
Forecasting Community Aggregated forecasts
Global Not a conventional real-money market

Research and community forecasts rather than tradable Event Contracts.

Source / profile
Active Manifold
Virtual market Play money / community
Global Virtual environment

Low access threshold; suitable for studying market mechanics.

Source / profile
Historical TradeSports / Intrade
Event Future Exchange Peer-to-peer · order book
Discontinued Historical regulatory case

A key reference for political and economic Event Contracts and market microstructure.

Source / profile
Historical Redmonitor
Regulated trading platform Binary financial contracts
Discontinued Austrian supervision

An important European precedent for tradable information and binary derivatives.

Source / profile

COVERAGE LOGIC

A theme becomes an industry
when its infrastructure becomes observable.

Providers reveal market supply. Publicly listed companies reveal capital and distribution. ETFs reveal packaging. Filings provide the verifiable signals.

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