Prediction markets once lived on the academic fringe. Now they’re trading billions on politics, sports, and celebrity gossip — under rules never designed for retail gamblers. <a href="https://www.citationneeded.news/prediction-markets-oversight/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Originally published</a> on September 16, 2025.

Prediction markets once lived on the academic fringe. Now they’re trading billions on politics, sports, and celebrity gossip — under rules never designed for retail gamblers. Originally published on September 16, 2025.

Prediction markets once lived on the academic fringe. Now they’re trading billions on politics, sports, and celebrity gossip — under rules never designed for retail gamblers. <a href="https://www.citationneeded.news/prediction-markets-oversight/" rel="noopener noreferrer">Originally published</a> on September 16, 2025.

Prediction markets are booming. Oversight is barely there.

Keep up with the happenings in the tech world without all the boosterism. Cryptocurrency critic, technology researcher, and software engineer <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molly_White_(writer)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Molly White</a> publishes Citation Needed, a newsletter that features weekly explainers of developments in the cryptocurrency industry, with summaries of the latest disasters featured on her well-known project<i> </i><a href="https://web3isgoinggreat.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Web3 is Going Just Great</a>. She also does deep dives into important events in the broader technology industry, with added critical context that is too often missing.

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Keep up with the happenings in the tech world without all the boosterism. Cryptocurrency critic, technology researcher, and software engineer Molly White publishes Citation Needed, a newsletter that features weekly explainers of developments in the cryptocurrency industry, with summaries of the latest disasters featured on her well-known project Web3 is Going Just Great. She also does deep dives into important events in the broader technology industry, with added critical context that is too often missing.

Keep up with the happenings in the tech world without all the boosterism. Cryptocurrency critic, technology researcher, and software engineer <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molly_White_(writer)" rel="noopener noreferrer">Molly White</a> publishes Citation Needed, a newsletter that features weekly explainers of developments in the cryptocurrency industry, with summaries of the latest disasters featured on her well-known project<i> </i><a href="https://web3isgoinggreat.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer">Web3 is Going Just Great</a>. She also does deep dives into important events in the broader technology industry, with added critical context that is too often missing.

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