At Intrade we're always working to make your experience with us better. We're continually adding new markets to generate predictive information on important topics like gasoline prices, hurricanes, or art auctions.

While your response has been overwhelmingly enthusiastic, you have also told us you want more.

You want an Intrade that's easier to use and more interactive. A site that puts you at the center of a connected and informed community. And a site whose refreshing design welcomes you with open arms.

Today, we're happy to tell you that our new platform has arrived at its first public beta release for virtual currency markets!

Registration is now open to the first 1000 registrants. So check it out and let us know what you think: www.intrade.net.

We've given you cool new features--a one-step tool to create a new Intrade market; interactive contract pages, and leaderboards.

We've shown it to some friends, and they loved it! We sincerely hope you will too.

On behalf of the entire Intrade team,

John Delaney, CEO

P.S., Don't worry! The current Intrade.com platform isn't going anywhere. It will stand side-by-side with intrade.net so you can choose which one to make your Intrade home. When Intrade.net goes out of beta it will become the new default but the current version of Intrade.com will be retained indefinitely.