NEXTPredict: First B2B Prediction Markets Summit Hits NYC — SkimNews
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- NEXTPredict runs October 22-23 at Convene in Hudson Yards, New York, with organizers expecting 50+ speakers and 2,500 attendees for what NEXT.io calls the first global B2B conference for the sector.
- Pierre Lindh, NEXT.io co-founder, told PredictCentr that nobody was covering prediction markets to 'real journalistic standards' and that the audience for the beat dwarfs his prior iGaming trade.
- Contessa Brewer of CNBC and Marshall Cohen of CNN were added to the program in August, booked around the midterms, and media passes have grown from 50 to 100-200.
- Polymarket's monthly active users sit around 283,300 measured by Token Terminal, down from a peak above 750,000 in the spring, with acquisition spikes around events that don't hold between events.
- Kalshi took on 3 million new users over the 2026 World Cup, with more than $1.2 billion traded on the tournament-winner contract — a record for a single market, per CEO Tarek Mansour.
- Federal Reserve researchers found Kalshi's macroeconomic contracts matched conventional forecasting benchmarks and beat the Bloomberg consensus on headline CPI, according to Bank of America analyst Julie Hoover.
- Susquehanna served as market maker as organizers bought $3 million of cover on Kalshi's flight-cancellation market for a $12,000 premium to hedge JFK delays on October 21.
Why it matters: Prediction markets are gaining institutional validation even as retail engagement softens: Federal Reserve researchers found Kalshi's contracts beat the Bloomberg consensus on headline CPI, yet Polymarket's monthly active users fell roughly 62% from a 750,000 spring peak to 283,300 per Token Terminal, exposing the gap between the professionalization narrative and sustained user growth.
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