{"id":47471,"date":"2026-08-22T17:55:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T16:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/22\/esports-is-suddenly-threatening-traditional-sports-in-prediction-market-volume\/"},"modified":"2026-08-22T17:55:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T16:55:13","slug":"esports-is-suddenly-threatening-traditional-sports-in-prediction-market-volume","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/22\/esports-is-suddenly-threatening-traditional-sports-in-prediction-market-volume\/","title":{"rendered":"Esports is suddenly threatening traditional sports in prediction market volume"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you thought prediction markets like Polymarket and Kalshi were reserved exclusively for political nerds or macroeconomics junkies, the latest trading data might shock you. Digital event contracts are blowing up, and competitive video games are quietly chasing down established, traditional sports leagues in raw volume&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.esports.net\/news\/esports-polymarket-sports-market\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you thought prediction markets like Polymarket and Kalshi were reserved exclusively for political nerds or macroeconomics junkies, the latest trading data might shock you. Digital event contracts are blowing up, and competitive video games are quietly chasing down established, traditional sports leagues in raw volume&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47472,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47471"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47471\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}