Prediction Markets Shouldn't Include Everything: Smarkets

Bloomberg Crypto interviewed Jason Trost, CEO of prediction-market exchange Smarkets, focusing on recent regulatory and public pushback against prediction markets. Increased scrutiny could compress trading volumes, constrain product offerings and raise compliance costs for prediction-market and crypto platforms, creating modest sector-level headwinds but is unlikely to move broader markets absent formal regulatory actions.

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Bloomberg Crypto interviewed Jason Trost, CEO of prediction-market exchange Smarkets, focusing on recent regulatory and public pushback against prediction markets. Increased scrutiny could compress trading volumes, constrain product offerings and raise compliance costs for prediction-market and crypto platforms, creating modest sector-level headwinds but is unlikely to move broader markets absent formal regulatory actions.