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It's a prediction market in some ways... though prediction markets have been historically associated with unregulated venues etc. We're fully regulated by the federal government as a derivatives exchange, and that's a big difference in an of itself (it took us years to figure out the right model to offer derivatives dynamically, with events as underlying). Regulation allows us to plug into the financial ecosystem, an…
So it's a prediction market but you aren't legally allowed to be called a prediction market. In much the same way that Pyramid Schemes can operate as "Multi-Level Marketing", eventually the regulators will catch on and shut things down.
We are fully regulated by the CFTC. Our ethos has been do regulation from day 1 and we spent 3 years getting regulated before we launched a single product. Regulators are already caught up and are working with us constructively to expand this marketplace and asset class.