News Week 5 Practice Test

This question hinges on recognizing a high-profile partnership between Major League Baseball and a prediction market platform. Polymarket is the platform that announced a deal with MLB to create and host markets around baseball outcomes, with a potential value described as up to $300 million. The idea is that fans and users could buy contracts whose payouts depend on real MLB results, using crypto-based markets. The other platforms exist in the prediction-market space—Kalshi operates as a regulated event-contract exchange, PredictIt has long focused on political markets, and Augur is an older, decentralized platform—but the specific MLB arrangement described here is associated with Polymarket.