FudSniper has identified a new FUD narrative in the market: Prediction markets will grow to $1 trillion by 2030, Bernstein estimates. Here is our analysis of whether this is genuine concern or manufactured fear.
What You Need to Know
Here are the key details from this alert:
- Prediction market volumes are booming in 2026, on pace to more than quadruple this year alone and reach an estimated $1 trillion in the next four years, according to Bernstein
- Volumes have already surged in the first few months of this year, the investment bank wrote in a report Tuesday, with Kalshi and Polymarket, the two largest platforms, seeing about $60 billion in mark
- Growth rates for the platforms rival the artificial intelligence boom, according to Bank of America
- Analyst Julie Hoover in a note last week called Kalshi one of the “fastest growing non-AI companies” in the U
- Weekly trading volume on Kalshi — which controls more than 90% of the U
- prediction market — has surged to more than $3 billion today from about $100 million a year ago, she wrote
- Source: Prediction markets will grow to $1 trillion by 2030, Bernstein estimates
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Published by Fudsniper on April 15, 2026. Source: Prediction markets will grow to $1 trillion by 2030, Bernste