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The new derivative allows eligible non-US users to trade leveraged exposure to the index around the clock using official data on a decentralized platform. S&P Dow Jones Indices has licensed its S&P 500 Index to Trade[XYZ] for the launch of a perpetual futures contract on Hyperliquid, in what the company described as the first officially licensed onchain product offering continuous, leveraged exposure to the index for eligible non-US users. According to Wednesday’s announcement, contract allows eligible non-US traders to take long or short positions on the index without an expiry date, with markets operating continuously outside traditional exchange hours using official index data from S&P Dow Jones Indices. The contract also brings equity index exposure onto Hyperliquid, extending the use of perpetual derivatives beyond cryptocurrencies into traditional financial benchmarks. Read more

Dow Jones announced an exclusive partnership to distribute Polymarket prediction data across The Wall Street Journal, Barron's, and MarketWatch on the same day Kalshi claimed it had hit $100 billion in annualized trading volume. The juxtaposition captures where prediction markets sit at the start of 2026: simultaneously legitimized as a financial data product and mired […] The post Prediction markets let insiders profit on leaks, yet a massive Dow Jones partnership just validated the rig appeared first on CryptoSlate.

The companies are partnering to make prediction markets available with “dedicated data modules” on Dow Jones-owned websites and some of its print media. Polymarket has partnered with Dow Jones to make its predictions market data available to users on multiple platforms. In a Wednesday notice, Polymarket and Dow Jones said the predictions market data would be available on The Wall Street Journal, Barron’s, MarketWatch and Investor’s Business Daily, among others. According to the companies, Polymarket will be featured in “dedicated data modules” on websites and select print placements. Dow Jones CEO Almar Latour said the decision was based on helping clients “better interpret market sentiment and assess risk.” Polymarket founder and CEO Shayne Coplan said the partnership would combine “journalistic insight with real-time market probabilities.” Read more