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Event-contract platforms have grown from novelty to a market structure regulators must now classify. How that classification lands will shape an entire asset class.
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Foreign giants borrowing in yen is a quiet arbitrage: even after Japan's rate moves, its bond market remains a low-cost funding source for those who can use it.
An exchange operator planning a futures market for compute is proposing something larger than a new contract: a price signal for the most contested input in the economy.