Crypto-focused enterprise capital agency Paradigm is reportedly constructing a prediction markets terminal, becoming a member of a wave of Wall Avenue corporations searching for a technique to serve the fast-growing sector.
Led by Paradigm accomplice Arjun Balaji, the prediction market providing will cater to skilled merchants and market makers, Fortune stated in a report on Wednesday, citing sources that stated they began engaged on the undertaking in late 2025.
Paradigm can also be contemplating rolling out an inner market-making desk — an in-house staff that gives liquidity by inserting purchase and promote orders — for prediction markets.
One of many sources advised Fortune that Paradigm can also be working with researchers to discover the feasibility of making prediction market indexes.
“This could entail bundling a number of prediction markets collectively into one tradable bundle, very like the S&P 500 combines the shares of 500 corporations into one index,” Fortune stated.
Paradigm’s choices add to a flood of corporations trying to supply entry to prediction markets, which some forecast may attain $1 trillion in annual quantity by the tip of the last decade.
Cointelegraph reached out to Paradigm for extra info, however didn’t obtain a right away response.
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Prediction markets turned one of many hottest use instances in crypto final yr and have constantly surpassed $10 billion in month-to-month buying and selling quantity.
Coinbase and Gemini have since launched prediction market choices, whereas Nasdaq and Cboe are searching for permission to supply prediction market-style binary choices.
Paradigm has already been taking a look at methods to get entangled within the burgeoning market.
It led Kalshi’s $185 million Collection C funding spherical in June and its $1 billion Collection E spherical in December.
The enterprise capital agency has additionally created a dashboard exhibiting buying and selling quantity and open curiosity on Polymarket, Kalshi and different platforms throughout sport, crypto, politics, tradition, financials and different matters.
new from paradigm: we’re constructing a instrument for exploring prediction market knowledge
strive it out right this moment. I wager you may discover new markets you by no means knew existed pic.twitter.com/HtDBWtFoys
— storm (@notnotstorm) February 4, 2026
Authorized points over prediction markets nonetheless being ironed out
Kalshi and its largest competitor, Polymarket, have been dominating prediction markets buying and selling quantity. Nonetheless, different challengers, akin to OPINION and predict.enjoyable, have additionally seen an uptick in buying and selling exercise not too long ago.
The fast development of the prediction markets house has attracted regulatory scrutiny, with critics involved that the platforms encourage insider buying and selling and market manipulation, whereas occasion contracts based mostly on sporting occasions are a type of sports activities betting.
US regulators on the federal and state ranges are hashing out who ought to have jurisdiction in regulating prediction markets, whereas some regulators overseas have outright banned sure prediction market platforms.
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