Author: Chain Wire

Washington, United States, August 28th, 2026, Chainwire

As prediction-market volume hits record highs and regulators circle, identically worded midterm questions are trading several points apart depending on the venue. Predictions.io now tracks 9,700+ markets across Kalshi, Polymarket and Manifold in one place – with free fee and odds calculators so traders can see what a price actually costs them.

Prediction markets have never been bigger, or more contested. Kalshi, Polymarket and Polymarket US together posted a record $50.59 billion in combined volume in July, with Kalshi accounting for roughly 74.5% of the total. In the same month, New York City opened a probe into both leading venues, a Washington judge ordered Kalshi to halt most wagers in the state, and the CFTC began an internal review of so-called “mention markets.”

Amid that scrutiny, a simpler question has gone largely unexamined: when two venues list the same question, do they agree on the answer?

Often, they do not. On identically worded midterm markets tracked by Predictions.io, “Blue tsunami in 2026?” was priced at 44.5% on Polymarket and 36.0% on Kalshi. “Blue wave in 2026?” showed 82.5% against 74.0%. Both gaps are 8.5 percentage points — on questions whose wording is identical on the two venues. Across a sample of directly comparable binary markets live on more than one venue, the median gap was more than four points, and nearly half of the pairs differed by five points or more. (Prices as of 05:08 UTC on 28 August 2026; both venues’ live prices are shown side by side on Predictions.io.)

Those gaps matter to anyone quoting a single number. A market priced at 44.5% on one venue and 36.0% on another does not have one “market-implied probability” – it has two, and which one gets cited is arbitrary unless the reader is told both.

“A single venue’s price is a data point. The spread between venues is the information. When the two biggest markets in the world disagree by seven points on the same sentence, that disagreement is the story – and nobody who runs one of those markets is in a position to report it.” said spokesperson of Predictions.io

Predictions.io aggregates markets from Kalshi, Polymarket and Manifold, matching equivalent questions across venues so the same event can be compared directly. The platform currently tracks more than 9,700 event pages across 23 categories including US politics, economics, crypto, sport and geopolitics.

Alongside the comparison pages, Predictions.io publishes two free tools:

● Fee Calculator — enter any trade and see the fee, total outlay and effective all-in price on each venue, including Kalshi’s 0.07 × P × (1−P) taker formula and maker discount against Polymarket’s zero-fee standard markets.

https://predictions.io/tools/fee-calculator

● Odds Converter — convert American, decimal and fractional odds into implied probability and prediction-market prices, and see the vig-free line.

https://predictions.io/tools/odds-converter

A direct venue comparison is available at https://predictions.io/compare/polymarket-vs-kalshi, and live midterms markets at https://predictions.io/lobby/us-politics.

Predictions.io operates no market and takes no position in any contract. It is a data and comparison service, not an exchange, broker or investment adviser.

About Predictions.io

Predictions.io is an independent aggregator of prediction markets, bringing prices from Kalshi, Polymarket and Manifold into a single view so the same question can be compared across venues. It publishes free tools for traders and journalists, including a cross-venue fee calculator and odds converter.

Users can learn more about Predictions.io here: https://predictions.io/

Predictions.io socials: https://bio.site/predictions.io

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Spokesperson
Predictions.io
support@predictions.io

Mutsamudu, Comoros, August 28th, 2026, Chainwire

MEXC, a pioneer in 0-fee digital asset trading, has launched Earn Plus, a new flexible savings product, and introduced a limited-time event that offers eligible users an APR boost of up to 800%.

Earn Plus is a flexible savings product that allows users to stake stablecoins and earn daily interest. The product offers 100% principal protection, with interest generated from low-risk, high-liquidity assets. Earn Plus has no lock-up period or maximum subscription limit, allowing users to stake and redeem assets at any time, with redemptions processed within seconds. Interest is calculated hourly and settled daily, and larger staked amounts qualify for higher APRs than those in standard Flexible Savings, currently up to 11%.

Earn Plus complements MEXC’s existing Earn product suite: Flexible Savings offers everyday liquidity with floating rates, Fixed Savings provides locked-term products for higher guaranteed returns, and On-chain Earn enables participation in on-chain yield opportunities. These products allow users to select an Earn solution based on their liquidity needs and risk preference.

The limited-time event runs from August 27 to October 24, 2026 (UTC), during which users can earn additional APR boosters on top of standard rates. New users who complete a qualifying deposit task can receive an APR booster of up to 800%. New and existing users who refer friends to complete deposit tasks are eligible for APR boosters of up to 800%, while those who reach specified net deposit thresholds can receive boosters of up to 500%. Specific booster terms, including APR and duration, are subject to the details displayed on the platform.

For event details and participation, please visit the MEXC platform.

About MEXC

MEXC is the world’s fastest-growing cryptocurrency exchange, trusted by more than 40 million users across 170+ markets. Built on a user-first philosophy, MEXC offers industry-leading 0-fee trading and access to over 3,000 digital assets. As the Gateway to Infinite Opportunities, MEXC provides a single platform where users can easily trade cryptocurrencies alongside tokenized assets, including stocks, ETFs, commodities, and precious metals.

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For media inquiries, please contact MEXC PR team: media@mexc.com

Risk Disclaimer:

This content does not constitute investment advice. Given the volatility of financial markets, including digital assets, tokenized assets, and traditional financial products, investors should carefully assess market conditions, underlying asset fundamentals, and potential financial risks before making any investment or trading decisions.

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MEXC PR team
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Clearfield, Utah, August 28th, 2026, FinanceWire

SmartMarket Solutions, the company behind the AI-managed “SmartMart” vending opportunity, is a Better Business Bureau (BBB) Accredited Business and holds an A+ rating, the highest rating the BBB assigns.

BBB accreditation is reserved for businesses that commit to the BBB Standards for Trust. These standards are a set of principles covering honest advertising, transparency, responsiveness to customers, and integrity in every interaction. The A+ rating reflects SmartMarket Solutions’ track record of doing business openly and standing behind the opportunity it offers.

“Trust is everything in this business, and BBB accreditation gives our operators and partners real confidence in who they’re working with,” said Mike Burnett, CEO of SmartMarket Solutions. “It reflects the strict standards we hold ourselves to every single day.”

The recognition underscores SmartMarket Solutions’ commitment to serving its customers with the transparency and accountability that BBB accreditation represents.

About SmartMarket Solutions

SmartMarket Solutions provides a better-than-a-franchise opportunity built on its SmartMart AI managed micro-stores. This secure, camera-vision technology is quickly revolutionizing the unattended retail space with its seamless grab-and-go experience.

Contact

COO
Jill Navidomskis
SmartMarket Solutions
jilln@smartmarts.ai

Dubai, UAE, August 28th, 2026, FinanceWire

The renovated court at Communal Elementary School opens a dedicated space for learning, sport, and community life in Buhangin.

STARCARES, the community impact initiative of STARTRADER, has completed the redevelopment of the basketball court at Communal Elementary School in Buhangin, Davao City, Philippines. Now open and in daily use, the facility serves approximately 20,000 people, including around 2,000 learners, 72 school staff, 1,600 parents, and 16,000 residents of Barangay Communal.

For students, the court offers a dependable space to learn and play, doubling as the venue for graduations, award ceremonies, and school assemblies. For the wider community, it becomes a gathering place for meetings, celebrations, and youth activities once classes end, reflecting how central basketball is to daily life in Buhangin.

“Before, we held graduations, school activities and community gatherings on a cracked, uneven court. Today, our students have a safe and proper space to learn, play and celebrate, while the wider community has a place that can bring people together.” – Nelson Sepe Lubguban Jr., Principal of Communal Elementary School.

STARCARES designed the redevelopment around long-term community use, ensuring the investment extends beyond construction as a practical resource for students, families and the wider Buhangin community.

“A court becomes powerful when it gives young people somewhere to show up, be seen, and grow stronger together. That is the impact we wanted to create.” – Peter Karsten, Chief Executive Officer of STARTRADER.

The Davao project extends STARCARES’ work revitalising community infrastructure, following similar initiatives in Vietnam, Thailand and Nigeria, and reflects STARTRADER’s commitment to supporting the communities it operates in, beyond its work in financial markets.

Under “Where Tomorrow’s STARS Begin,” STARCARES will continue identifying communities where practical infrastructure can create lasting everyday value.

About STARTRADER

STARTRADER is a global multi-asset broker empowering retail and institutional partners to access global markets through a range of platforms, including MetaTrader, STARTRADER APP, and STAR Copy.

STARTRADER operates through entities licensed and regulated by authorities including CMA, ASIC, FSCA, FSA, and FSC, combining strong governance with a client-first approach, serving both retail clients and partners with a commitment to transparency, reliability, and long-term growth.

Contact

Janna.magabilen
Janna.magabilen@startrader.com

Singapore, Singapore, August 27th, 2026, Chainwire

TermMax, a fixed-rate lending protocol built by Term Structure Labs, announced on August 26 that it has received a strategic investment from YZi Labs. Terms were not disclosed.

TermMax was selected for YZi Labs’ EASY Residency Season 3 and has raised more than $8 million to date. Its earlier backers include Cumberland DRW — which led the 2023 seed round — HashKey Capital, Decima Fund, Longling Capital and MZ Web3 Fund.

The protocol has been live on mainnet since April 2025 and now runs across 10 EVM-compatible chains, with 60 fixed-rate markets, 40 strategy vaults, tens of millions of dollars in total value locked and more than 1.5 million registered wallets. Keyrock, Hardcore Labs, Edge Capital and Origami serve as Curators, managing strategy vaults on the protocol. The $TMX token completed its TGE on August 25.

The investor’s own public position points to the gap this investment is meant to fill. In an August 14 post describing what it wants to see built, YZi Labs wrote that tokenized blue-chip equities have reached meaningful volume, but that the financial application layer around them — credit, collateral management, risk transfer and structured products — remains underdeveloped, and that options and other risk-transfer products in particular remain conspicuously absent.

YZi Labs placed this investment precisely where that gap sits.

“When I left banking, there were a few hundred billion dollars of assets sitting on-chain without a single directly observable interest rate curve between them. In traditional markets, that would be unheard of. That is what made me decide to build this infrastructure on-chain.” – Jerry Li, Co-founder and CEO, TermMax.

Tokenized equities are the fastest-growing asset class on-chain, now at $2.48 billion, with holder count up 165% in 30 days.

TermMax integrated Ondo Global Markets in January 2026 to launch the first fixed-rate borrowing market to accept tokenized U.S. equities as collateral, then added Binance’s bStock. In August it went live on Robinhood Chain, where QQQ, SPY and NVDA can be posted against USDG.

But financing is only half of what tokenized equities need. Nearly all of this year’s tokenized-equity infrastructure has gone into perpetual futures, and almost none into options.

TermMax Alpha is where that changes: physical delivery options, with no liquidation before expiry. The conversion price is fixed when the position is opened, and the position is settled by physical delivery at expiry. A directionally correct position therefore cannot be knocked out by a few minutes of volatile trading in thin liquidity — the failure mode that makes perpetuals unsuitable at the illiquid end of tokenized equities.

This no-liquidation design rests on a choice running through the whole protocol: when liquidation does happen, it settles by physical delivery, with collateral delivered directly to the lender rather than sold into the market. The usual assumption — that collateral can be sold at fair value on demand — holds for ETH and fails for a tokenized equity with a few million dollars of depth.

On the institutional side, TermPrime completed its first live trade on Canton Network at the end of June and has since grown its counterparty network to nine institutions.

TermMax runs an early validator node on Canton, and TermPrime is ready to support lending business for institutions there through open markets.

TermMax holds a DeFiSafety Process Quality Review score of 93%, matching Aave V3.

“What we set out to do is not to teach traditional institutions DeFi. It is to let DeFi grow into something professional enough to genuinely serve finance.” – Jerry Li, Co-founder and CEO, TermMax.

What TermMax wants to be is not another lending protocol, but the on-chain interest rate curve itself.

About TermMax

TermMax is a fixed-rate, fixed-term borrowing and lending marketplace built by Term Structure Labs, live on mainnet since April 2025 and deployed across 10 EVM-compatible chains, where it runs 60 fixed-rate markets and 40 strategy vaults. The protocol splits debt into three tradable tokens: FT (principal), XT (interest and option value) and GT (an ERC-721 receipt for leveraged positions). Professional Curators set target APR ranges across isolated markets and manage strategy vaults, and liquidations settle by physical delivery of collateral. Co-founder and CEO Jerry Li has 25 years in global financial markets and served as Managing Director at Deutsche Bank, running fixed income and FX for Greater China.

Website: https://ts.finance/

About YZi Labs

YZi Labs manages over $10 billion in assets globally. Our investment philosophy emphasizes impact first — we believe that meaningful returns will naturally follow. We invest in ventures at every stage, prioritizing those with solid fundamentals in Web3, AI, and biotech. YZi Labs’ portfolio covers over 300 projects from over 25 countries across six continents. Some notable portfolios include Trust Wallet, CoinMarketCap, Polygon, Injective, Ethena, SafePal Wallet, Better Payment Network, Aster, XAI, and more. More than 65 of YZi Labs’ portfolio companies have gone through our incubation program, EASY Residency. For more information, follow YZi Labs on X (@yzilabs).

Contact

TermMax Marketing Team
hello@cipherdance.com

New York, New York, August 27th, 2026, FinanceWire

Real-time Single Stock futures data on 50+ names, including AAPL, NVDA and TSLA, is now available natively alongside Stocktwits conversation and sentiment

Stocktwits, the leading community for financial investors and traders, today announced the availability of CME Group Single Stock futures data on its platform. The launch deepens the collaboration with the world’s leading derivatives marketplace, following the integration of futures market data in March 2026. 

Single Stock futures enable traders to seamlessly gain long or short exposure to individual stocks, along with the ability to trade beyond regular market hours. For a community that never stops watching the market, Single Stock futures offer a way to keep trading activity and conversations going long after the closing bell, with nearly 23 hours a day, five days a week trading capability.

Stocktwits users can now follow Single Stock futures contract activity on over 50 of the top U.S. stocks they already track, all within the same symbol page experience they use every day on web and the Stocktwits app. Traders no longer need to leave Stocktwits to see how a name like AAPL or TSLA is trading after the bell; they can watch the action unfold right alongside the community of more than 10 million users that follows it most closely.

A new “Futures” tab appears on any equity with a live CME Group Single Stock futures listing, with pricing, volume, open interest, and expiration data for both Standard, and Micro-sized contracts. The Futures tab adds to the quotes, charts and streaming prices that are already available for CME Group’s equity index, energy, agricultural, metals, interest rate, and cryptocurrency futures. 

“CME Group’s Single Stock futures data is an exciting addition to Stocktwits, giving our community a new way to track the moves that happen after the bell,” said Howard Lindzon, Founder & CEO of Stocktwits. “This addition brings the flexibility and around-the-clock data access serious traders want, along with the insights they need seamlessly integrated into the Stocktwits experience.”

“We are pleased to bring CME Group Single Stock futures data to Stocktwits’ 10 million global users, who now have an expanded suite of tools to manage risk and identify trading opportunities,” said Julie Winkler, Senior Managing Director and Chief Commercial Officer, CME Group. “Providing real-time access to Single Stock futures equips retail investors with actionable intelligence for navigating the market on a 23/5 basis.”

Single Stock futures data is live now on stocktwits.com and in the Stocktwits app.

About Stocktwits

Stocktwits is the largest online community dedicated to financial investors and traders. With a registered user base of over 10 million users, Stocktwits has established itself as a leading voice in the investing world. Driven by the mission to help investors enhance their returns, Stocktwits offers a rich ecosystem of community interaction, data, content, and tools that empower investors to connect, learn, and have fun in the process. For more information, users can visit stocktwits.com.

Contact

Julia Fong
jfong@stocktwits.com