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The Catawba Nation Chief, Brian Harris, has taken to social media to share the latest vision for the federally recognized tribe in South Carolina.
Harris starts by sharing the new introductions and improvements before noting that, unlike South Carolina, “believe it or not, we never applied to be state-recognized in North Carolina.”
He continued to say they already have all the paperwork turned in and have done their due diligence, including giving the state everything they need. With this comes the opening of the tribe’s first satellite government office in North Carolina.
The office in this new location aims to facilitate the tribe’s citizens in the state. Later in the video, where Brian Harris is sitting down to provide an insight into the upcoming happenings, he says the tribe will be submitting a number of legislation bills this year.
This includes a bill for North Carolina, as well as another in South Carolina which Harris says the bill would propose “to give us, as the federal government promised us back in the day, a leg up on any other casino coming into the state of South Carolina.” He continued to say that if they don’t, the tribe is going to file federal lawsuits.
Catawba Nation Chief Brian Harris shares insight into casino plans
Also in the speech, Harris explained how a new 80,000 square-foot introductory casino would be opening in February or March time.
It was in June of last year when an update was provided on the $1 billion Catawba Two Kings Casino Resort in Kings Mountain, with significant construction having just been completed.
Introductory casino phase to open in spring 2026. Credit: Catawba Two Kings Casino Resort via press release
At the time, they said the introductory casino was planned to open in Spring 2026 and they described the project to be in full swing. However, the main casino complex was said to be opening in 2027, with this being about 2 million square feet.
The casino will include 4,300 slot machines, 100 table games, 11 dining outlets, a players lounge, 11 bars, and a 2,700-space parking garage built under the casino complex, and 800 surface parking spaces.
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Gemini Titan, which was co-founded by the Winklevoss twins, has notified the Commodity Futures Trading Commission that it plans to offer ‘time-interval prop bets.’
In the electronic submission, the company states its intention to list “Will the [points] recorded in [time period] of[event] be [above/below/exactly/at least/between [count] points?”
Along with the letter, the Exchange provided the contracts rules and terms and conditions, as well as an explanation and analysis “demonstrating that the Products comply with the Commodity Exchange Act” and a confidential treatment request.

Gemini Titan has filed a self-certification with the CFTC for “time-interval prop bets” — i.e., how many points both teams will score during a defined time period — as a sports event contract. Classifies this as a “swap.” pic.twitter.com/VdvZC5Obpw
— Daniel Wallach (@WALLACHLEGAL) January 26, 2026

This marks the company’s latest move, as it was just in December of 2025 when Gemini Predictions was launched through the affiliate Gemini Titan. It received a Designed Contract Market (DCM) license from the U.S. CFTC a week ahead of its arrival.
Gemini Titan received a DCM licence from the CFTC
On its arrival from the crypto-native finance platform, Gemini Predictions announced it would be offering event contracts that are simple yes or no questions on future events. From the get-go, customers were able to trade event contracts using USD in their Gemini Exchange account on web, iOS, and Android.
The company launched its prediction market at a time when others were entering the market, including major brands like Fanatics sportsbook and FanDuel. In December 2025, Fanatics Markets was launched, with the platform built to let people trade on the moments within sports, finance, and culture. The other major sportsbook operator announced its new move at a similar time, with FanDuel Predicts launching shortly after.
While the company has already launched and received regulatory approval from the start, the industry has faced some backlash over the last several months as some state regulators oppose the platforms. In Louisiana, for example, the Gaming Control Board issued a press release suggesting it now views sporting event contracts and “certain other event contracts” as a violation of state gambling laws.
Featured Image: Via Gemini on X
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Amazon’s founder Jeff Bezos has taken to social media to reply to a post from Polymarket, saying it’s been made up.
On January 22, the prediction market Polymarket posted on X saying: “JUST IN: Jeff Bezos advises aspiring Gen Z entrepreneurs to start at real world jobs like McDonalds or Palantir before starting a business.”
The post has since racked up 5.5 million views, with over 8,700 likes and over 1,300 reposts.
The 62-year-old quickly denied the post though, as he took to his X account to reply to the original Polymarket post with “Nope. Not sure why polymarket made this up.”

Nope. Not sure why polymarket made this up.
— Jeff Bezos (@JeffBezos) January 22, 2026

It’s quite rare for the founder to reply to such a post, with the last tweet he posted being in December to welcome the new president of his company Blue Origin. Now, the original tweet has had a community note added to say the man has rejected this.
Polymarket about Jeff Bezos causes entrepreneur to respond
Also in the thread, X owner Elon Musk replied to Bezos to say: “Well, the President worked at McDonald’s and now he’s the President.”
While it’s not known where the actual claim came from, Business Insider reported that during Italian Tech Week in November, the Amazon founder suggested young entrepreneurs work before building their one business, rather than dropping out of education.
“It is possible to, you know, be 18, 19, 20 years old, drop out of college, and be a great entrepreneur,” he is reported as having said.
“We have famous examples of that working: Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, etcetera. But these people are the exception.”
“I always advise young people, you know, go work at a best practices company somewhere, where you can learn a lot of basic fundamental things,” Bezos added. “There’s still lots of time to start a company after you have absorbed it. It increases your odds, in my opinion.”
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