Prediction markets have hit a turning point. The numbers speak for themselves—major platforms are now processing weekly notional volume at $3.4B, with nearly 300K active markets running simultaneously. That translates to 18.4M transactions per week and $584M in deployed open interest. This isn't niche anymore. When you're talking about this scale and velocity, you're looking at infrastructure that operates at genuine financial-grade performance. The market's matured beyond experimental stage.