January 9, 2026
6 Ways to Make Money in Prediction Markets in 2026
Prediction markets are growing fast. Most participants are still trading for fun. Here’s how professionals extract probability, time decay, and structural edge instead.
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Prediction markets are growing fast. Most participants are still trading for fun. Here’s how professionals extract probability, time decay, and structural edge instead.
Gold is doing what it always does in a debasement regime. The real question is: Can bitcoin follow?
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Is gold on the cusp of an unprecedented rally? Eric Fine breaks down VanEck’s bold prediction on what happens if the U.S. dollar loses its reserve status.
Gold is doing what it always does in a debasement regime. The real question is: Can bitcoin follow?
Vinny Lingham unpacks Bitcoin’s underperformance and his plans to launch a gold-backed stablecoin.
Bitcoin’s rally was fueled by cooling inflation, massive short liquidations, and a surge in spot ETF inflows that pushed prices back toward six figures.
X’s ban on incentivized posting has forced InfoFi platforms to shut down rewards, sending tokens lower and pushing crypto marketing toward smaller, curated creator models.
Coinbase is pausing peso-based payment rails in Argentina following an internal review, even as regulators consider allowing banks to offer crypto services.
What is crypto without drama? 2025 had a lot of it.
Crypto defied expectations in more than one way in 2025. Doug Colkitt and Gwart sit down to whimsically unpack it all.
The Chopping Block breaks down the Kontigo Venezuela sanctions scandal, poly market insider trading drama around Maduro’s capture, and the explosive Zcash governance crisis that has the entire Electric Coin Company team quitting to launch CashZ amid foundation versus for-profit wallet debate.
Will 2026 be bullish or bearish for Bitcoin and the broader crypto market? Analysts Alex Thorn and Ryan Graham see countervailing forces.
Truebit’s TRU token collapsed after hackers exploited a long-standing contract flaw to drain $26 million from the protocol.
Polymarket added taker fees to its fast-paced 15-minute crypto markets, reshaping incentives for bots and liquidity providers.
Will 2026 be bullish or bearish for Bitcoin and the broader crypto market? Analysts Alex Thorn and Ryan Graham see countervailing forces.
Optimism is weighing a proposal to use half of Superchain sequencer revenue for recurring OP token buybacks aimed at boosting value capture.
Ethereum completed the final parameter-only step of its Fusaka upgrade, boosting blob capacity to ease rollup congestion and lower layer 2 fees.
Grayscale paid out its first ETH staking rewards to ETF investors, setting a precedent for yield-bearing spot crypto funds.
Nike quietly exited its NFT business by selling RTFKT months after shutting it down, as former holders pursue legal action over lost value.
Nick O’Neill, more popularly known by his persona “Choose Rich Nick,” delves into how he became internet famous, the man behind the persona, his endgame and the secret to his success.
Coinbase spent $375 million acquiring Cobie’s Up Only NFT and his fundraising platform Echo, signaling a push into crypto media and onchain capital markets.
Hyperliquid introduced permissionless spot quote assets and dropped its Hypurr NFT collection, driving tens of millions in trading volume and rare NFT sales over $400,000.
Lawmakers postponed a critical Senate crypto bill just as industry support fractured, raising doubts about whether market-structure legislation can advance this year.
U.S. senators advanced a compromise bill that would ban passive stablecoin yields while allowing rewards tied to onchain activity, setting the tone for future regulation.
A $60 billion rumor dominates conversations in the crypto space in the fallout of Maduro’s capture. Is Venezuela a secret Bitcoin giant?
Will 2026 be bullish or bearish for Bitcoin and the broader crypto market? Analysts Alex Thorn and Ryan Graham see countervailing forces.
Sui resumed block production after a six-hour network-wide outage, renewing concerns about reliability as competition among layer 1 blockchains heats up.
Former Electric Coin Company developers unveiled a new Zcash wallet after leaving amid a governance dispute over funding and control.
Flow detailed how an attacker used dozens of malicious contracts to extract $3.9 million, prompting a chain halt and recovery plan without rolling back user balances.
Security continues to be a major pain point for crypto. Experts discuss how the landscape has evolved and why a security plan may not be enough.
The Chopping Block breaks down the Kontigo Venezuela sanctions scandal, poly market insider trading drama around Maduro’s capture, and the explosive Zcash governance crisis that has the entire Electric Coin Company team quitting to launch CashZ amid foundation versus for-profit wallet debate.
The Chopping Block delivers its definitive 2025 year-end awards — biggest winners (Trump, prediction markets, M&A), biggest losers (Gary Gensler, Web3, Bitcoin’s relative performance), wildest surprises (Circle IPO, Ethereum pivot, Zcash revival), best memes, pivots, comebacks, and flops — plus a brutally honest review of last year’s predictions and fresh calls for 2026.
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