Coinbase launches live crypto price prediction markets
Coinbase expanded its prediction markets with short-dated crypto price contracts on Tuesday, adding 15-minute and hourly up-or-down markets tied to bitcoin, ether, and eight other tokens. The move puts Coinbase into a format already listed by Kalshi, while leaving open how users and regulators will react over time.
What this rests on
What it means
Each sentence links inside to the piece that supports it.
People using Coinbase’s platform are the main group affected right away, because the exchange now offers short-dated crypto price contracts that were not there before. Traders who want to place 15-minute or hourly bets on bitcoin, ether, and eight other tokens can see those markets on Tuesday’s launch, and that changes what is available to them today.
Market reaction
How the story was built
Every piece in order, with the time its news medium declares — if it is not believable we use ours and say so — and what it added to what was already known at that point. Arriving first is not the same as adding something.
Crypto Briefing
Has this happened before?
| When | What happened | Figure |
|---|---|---|
| 11 days ago | Binance Brings AI Agents Closer to Real-Money Trading event | 1 actors in common · 2 news media |
| 16 days ago | Stand With Crypto Backs Candidates Ahead of 2026 Midterm Elections event | 1 actors in common · 4 news media |
| 16 days ago | Base launches Cobalt upgrade with conditional transactions and new B20 asset functions event | 1 actors in common · 9 news media |
| 16 days ago | Arc Packages USDC Funding and Morpho Lending for Apps event | 1 actors in common · 3 news media |
| 16 days ago | Morpho Launches Fixed-Rate Credit Markets on Base With Lender Offers event | 1 actors in common · 2 news media |