Bitcoin trades at $78,891 after touching $80,000 on Monday. The deepest forward-looking book in crypto, $59.51M on where Bitcoin trades for the rest of 2026, puts the coin flip at $90,000.

Above that the curve decays fast: $100,000 at 29.5 percent, $120,000 at 12 percent, $150,000 at 3.9 percent. Below it, the market has not written off a fresh low. Bitcoin dipping under $55,000 prices at 22.5 percent, and that leg carries $5.68M, more than any other contract in the book.

A new all-time high by 31 December prices at 9.8 percent, up from 5 percent two weeks ago. This piece walks the whole term structure, from tomorrow's close out to year end, and covers what the ladders actually let you do that a perpetual position cannot.

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There are six live order books on how many times Elon Musk will post on X, carrying $5.14M between them. Across all six, $1.03M changed hands in the last twenty-four hours, which is more than the entire CLARITY Act market trades in most weeks.

That sounds like a novelty until you look at what these books actually are. They resolve on an integer that anyone can count, over windows that reopen every few days, with several windows running at once at different stages of their life. Nothing else on the board offers that combination, which makes them the cleanest available laboratory for how a distribution behaves as uncertainty drains out of it.

This piece covers what the books say, what they teach, and where the same market structure shows up in the rest of the Musk complex: the richest-person contract at 96.9 percent, Starship launch counts, the Tesla and SpaceX merger ladder, and two books whose mutually exclusive outcomes add up to more than 249 percent.

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Unitree listed in Shanghai on August 19 at 150.80 yuan, opened at 1,100, closed at 845 and now trades near 687. That is a company worth about 41 billion dollars on 1.70 billion yuan of 2025 revenue and 278 million yuan of profit, or roughly 163 times trailing sales and close to 1,000 times trailing earnings. The business is genuinely exceptional. Unitree holds over 60% of the global quadruped market, shipped more than 5,500 humanoids in 2025 for the world's largest share, and is one of the only profitable companies in its field. But the operating trend and the price trend are moving in opposite directions. Revenue growth fell from 333% to 48.5%, and adjusted profit fell 19.3% in the first half of 2026. Only one published target exists, at 370 yuan, 46% below spot. Our scenarios bracket 167 to 989, weighting to 429. Every calculation is shown below.

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On 28 May, Anthropic closed a $65B Series H at a $965B post-money valuation, passing OpenAI's $852B for the first time. Eleven weeks later the prediction board has already moved well past that number. Anthropic trading above $1.1T is settled at 100 percent, and a further doubling to $2.5T by 31 December prices at 49.5 percent.

OpenAI's equivalent coin flip sits at $1.0T. The market no longer prices these two companies as peers, and it prices a one in three chance OpenAI is marked back below $800B before the year is out.

The model leaderboard says the same thing in a different currency. Anthropic holds 97.9 percent for best model at the end of August, 90.5 percent at the end of September, and 66.5 percent at the end of 2026. The runner-up on that last book is not OpenAI. It is xAI.

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The single largest non-election question on the prediction board is not about rates, war or crypto. It is whether the United States government will confirm that extraterrestrial life exists. That book carries $65.05M, roughly nine times the volume behind the CLARITY Act and more than the AI valuation and OpenAI listing books combined.

The price is 3.5 percent for 31 December. That number has survived a year in which the government released more than 450 UAP reports, ran congressional hearings, wrote three UAP provisions into the defence authorisation, and issued subpoenas to defence contractors.

The gap between those two facts is the entire article. A separate contract on the Trump administration declassifying new UFO files by 30 September prices at 95 percent. Disclosure and confirmation are different questions, and reading one as the other is the single most common error in how this file gets covered.

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OpenSea raised $300M at a $13.3B valuation in January 2022. Consensys raised $450M at $7B the same year. MegaETH's public sale drew $1.39B in bids. These are among the most anticipated token launches in crypto, and prediction markets price all three near the bottom of the board.

There are now live markets on where unlaunched tokens will trade one day after launch, and several carry more volume than markets on companies that already exist. Read against what each project actually raised, they produce an uncomfortable pattern: on this board, capital raised and launch likelihood are close to inversely related.

One mechanic makes the whole thing readable. An FDV contract resolves no if the token never launches, so the top rung of any ladder is a floor on the launch probability itself. That single reading turns thirteen valuation books into a ranking, and it is where every number below comes from.

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MicroStrategy has fallen 74 percent in twelve months against a Bitcoin drawdown of 47 percent. On any normal reading that is a distress chart. The market disagrees, and the way it disagrees is specific enough to be useful.

Bankruptcy before 2027 prices at 3 to 4 percent, below JetBlue and Xerox in the same book. A margin call in 2026 prices at 4 percent. Continued accumulation past 800,000 coins is settled at 100 percent. What does price high is an MSCI index delisting at 72 percent. The market is separating reclassification from insolvency, and most coverage collapses the two.

Elsewhere the listing window prices shut, with Kraken at 12 percent, Consensys at 9 percent and OKX at 8 percent, while Kraken's own valuation ladder points down rather than up. This piece works through ten signals across crypto's public and pre-public companies, and where the prices disagree with the narrative.

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The CLARITY Act cleared the Senate Banking Committee on 14 May by 15 votes to 9, with all 13 Republicans joined by two Democrats. It has sat on the Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders since 1 June, eligible for a floor vote the entire time. On 8 August, Majority Leader Thune filed cloture on the motion to proceed, hours before the Senate recessed. It returns on 14 September with a procedural vote scheduled for the 15th.

Prediction markets price more than 50 Senators voting for it at 45 percent. They price it being signed into law in 2026 at 20 percent, on $7.02M of volume.

That gap is the whole story. It is not a market doubting support. It is a market counting the days between a September procedural vote and 31 December, against a chamber with roughly three weeks of floor time before the midterm campaign takes over. Everything else on the crypto policy board sits in single digits, and one market elsewhere is doing all the genuine work.

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On July 27 CXMT listed in Shanghai at 8.66 yuan and opened at 49.50, a 466% first-day move that made China's DRAM champion the most valuable company on any mainland exchange. It now trades near 52.87 yuan, roughly 522 billion dollars. The business underneath is real and moving fast. Revenue went from 9.1 billion yuan in 2023 to a guided 110 to 120 billion in the first half of 2026 alone, and nine years of losses flipped to a guided 50 to 57 billion yuan of half-year profit. The problem is what set the price. Only 6.73% of the enlarged share capital was tradable at listing, so about 35 billion dollars of stock is marking 522 billion. Published targets run from 14.90 to 116 yuan with nothing in between. Our scenarios bracket 14 to 91, weighting to 42. This piece shows the background, the capacity math, the multiple, and every calculation behind those numbers.

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