{"id":626354,"date":"2026-07-08T17:10:48","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T17:10:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/?p=829590"},"modified":"2026-07-08T17:10:48","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T17:10:48","slug":"prediction-market-volume-jumped-75-to-44-8b-in-june-as-the-world-cup-drove-record-trading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/07\/08\/prediction-market-volume-jumped-75-to-44-8b-in-june-as-the-world-cup-drove-record-trading\/","title":{"rendered":"Prediction Market Volume Jumped 75% to $44.8B in June as the World Cup Drove Record Trading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/prediction-market-volume-jumped-75-to-44-8b-in-june-as-the-world-cup-drove-record-trading-768x432.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-post-image\" alt=\"Prediction Market Volume Jumped 75% to $44.8B in June as the World Cup Drove Record Trading\" style=\"float:left;margin:0 15px 15px 0\" \/>Combined trading volume across the two largest prediction-market platforms surged 75% in June to $44.8 billion, a record for the sector, as the FIFA World Cup pulled a wave of event-contract activity onto Kalshi and Polymarket. The month tested whether prediction-market infrastructure could sustain trading around a single global event \u2013 and, by the volume [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Combined trading volume across the two largest prediction-market platforms surged 75% in June to $44.8 billion, a record for the sector, as the FIFA World Cup pulled a wave of event-contract activity onto Kalshi and Polymarket. The month tested whether prediction-market infrastructure could sustain trading around a single global event \u2013 and, by the volume [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":626355,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-626354","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bitcoin"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=626354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626354\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/626355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=626354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=626354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=626354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}