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World Cup Mints Big Prediction Winners and Million-Dollar Losers

World Cup Mints Big Prediction Winners and Million-Dollar Losers
Bloomberg Markets Friday 19 June 2026, 10:02 UTC By Emily Nicolle, Ira Boudway, Carolyn Silverman 1 min read
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Sports World Cup Mints Big Prediction Winners and Million-Dollar Losers The World Cup is turning prediction markets into a public ledger of million-dollar bets, exposing big wins and dramatic losses as the tournament attracts more money to the fast-growing industry. More than $5 billion has been traded on the World Cup across Polymarket’s international exchange and US-regulated Kalshi Inc. in 2026, according to a Bloomberg News analysis of Dune Analytics data and company records. The boom...

Sports World Cup Mints Big Prediction Winners and Million-Dollar Losers The World Cup is turning prediction markets into a public ledger of million-dollar bets, exposing big wins and dramatic losses as the tournament attracts more money to the fast-growing industry. More than $5 billion has been traded on the World Cup across Polymarket’s international exchange and US-regulated Kalshi Inc. in 2026, according to a Bloomberg News analysis of Dune Analytics data and company records. The boom has produced multimillion-dollar winners and some painful losses, including a bet-gone-wrong on Belgium to beat Egypt that cost one Polymarket user nearly $9 million.
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