About Event Markets
Event Markets is the intelligence layer for prediction markets and event contracts. A custom AI system reads the entire category every day: regulatory filings, court dockets, state legislatures, and exchange rulebooks. It surfaces what changed with the source document attached. Alex McFarland built the system and edits what it publishes.
What this is
Prediction markets moved from a niche to a real financial category faster than anyone built the coverage for it. Billions in monthly volume, a federal regulator writing its first rules for the sector, courts across the country deciding what the law even is, and new exchanges launching constantly.
Event Markets covers all of it. The exchanges, the regulators, the litigation, the money, and the market data.
What we track
The system monitors the category continuously across four layers:
- Federal. Regulatory filings, contract listings, advisories, orders, and rulemaking.
- The courts. Active litigation across federal circuits and district courts.
- The states. Every state legislature, gaming regulator, and attorney general.
- The exchanges. Rulebooks, fee schedules, product launches, and availability.
When something moves, it surfaces with the underlying document attached.
How it works
Event Markets runs on custom AI systems built specifically for this beat. They read continuously, across every source, and flag what changed.
Alex McFarland built those systems and edits what they surface. Machines read everything. A journalist decides what matters, what it means, and what gets published. That combination is what makes it possible for one operation to cover a category this fast at this depth.
How we verify
Every claim traces to a primary source, and every figure carries the date it was accurate as of. The citation goes to the order, the statute, the filing, or the docket entry, never to coverage of it.
Pages carry a verified date showing when their facts were last checked against those sources, and the fastest-moving pages are re-checked on the shortest cycles. Where the public record disagrees with itself, both figures appear with both sources.
Who runs it
Alex McFarland has covered artificial intelligence and emerging technology professionally since 2019, and builds AI-driven editorial systems that run at production scale for publishers. Event Markets applies that to a category he thinks deserves far better coverage than it has.
Questions, tips, corrections and documents are welcome.
Questions
Is this written by AI?
Yes, and that is the advantage. A custom AI system reads the filings, the dockets, and fifty statehouses every day. Alex McFarland built that system, edits what it surfaces, and puts his name on it. Machines read everything. A human decides what is true and what matters.
How is Event Markets different from a newsletter?
Every page is a live reference document rather than a dated dispatch. State pages, case pages and data pages carry the date their facts were last checked against primary sources, and the fastest-moving ones are re-checked on the shortest cycles.
What does the Verified date mean?
The page's facts were checked against primary sources on that date. It moves on a real re-check, never on a prose edit or a redeploy.