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Polymarket is redefining betting with blockchain-based prediction markets, allowing users to wager on real-world events. Polymarket news tracks major betting trends, regulatory challenges, and market liquidity shifts. As decentralized prediction markets gain traction, their impact on finance and information markets continues to grow.
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Polymarket has clarified that it is not introducing mandatory Know Your Customer checks across its main prediction market platform despite renewed scrutiny over compliance and restricted-jurisdiction access. In a post on X, Polymarket vice president of engineering Josh Stevens said…
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U.S. authorities have charged a Google software engineer with insider trading tied to prediction markets, as federal regulators continue tightening scrutiny around Polymarket and other event-based trading platforms. According to the U.S. Department of Justice, Google employee Michele Spagnuolo allegedly…
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The CFTC has moved a proposed rule on prediction-markets event contracts into White House review as federal and state officials fight over who should police the fast-growing sector. Bloomberg first reported that the proposal is now before the White House…
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Polymarket is pushing more traders toward identity checks as regulatory pressure grows over sanctions exposure, geoblocking failures and jurisdictional misuse. Polymarket is moving closer to requiring more traders to verify their identities as the prediction market faces mounting pressure over…
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Kalshi and Polymarket lost bids to block gambling cases in Nevada and Washington. A three-judge Ninth Circuit panel denied emergency motions from both Kalshi and Polymarket to block lower court rulings, sending gambling enforcement cases in Nevada and Washington back…
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The U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform has opened an investigation into Polymarket and Kalshi over concerns tied to insider trading and wagers allegedly linked to classified information. According to a statement released by the committee, Chair James…
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Polymarket has reportedly appointed a Japanese representative as the prediction market platform moves toward securing approval to operate legally in the country by 2030. According to a Friday Bloomberg report citing people familiar with the matter, Polymarket sees Japan as…
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Hyperliquid highlights shift in crypto design as user experience overtakes token-first product narratives. For most of the last decade, a useful generalization about crypto products was that the token mattered more than the product. The user experience could be inelegant,…
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Polymarket’s push to lift its CFTC ban is not just a venue story; it’s a fight over whether “reality markets” on war, pandemics and macro become a regulated US asset class or stay an offshore grey zone. Polymarket is in…
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U.S. President Donald Trump arrived in Beijing on May 13 for a formal state visit at the invitation of Chinese President Xi Jinping. The visit marks a renewed high-level diplomatic engagement between the world’s two largest economies amid ongoing strategic…
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Bernstein says prediction markets are drawing institutions after Kalshi’s first block trade, with custom contracts and retail volume rising.
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The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission has received more than 1,500 public responses on its proposed rule for prediction market event contracts. According to the CFTC, the comment period for its March proposal closed Thursday after drawing submissions from prediction…
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The U.S. Senate has approved a resolution banning senators and Senate staff from using prediction markets. According to Senate proceedings, the resolution passed by unanimous consent on Thursday changed the chamber’s standing rules and took immediate effect. Lawmakers tied the…
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Polymarket is rolling out an onchain integrity monitor with Chainalysis to detect insider trading and manipulation across its prediction markets and reassure regulators and institutions. Polymarket has unveiled a comprehensive on-chain market integrity monitoring solution designed to track trading behavior…
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Polymarket partners with Chainalysis to deploy on-chain surveillance targeting insider trading and manipulation as volumes hit $7B monthly and regulation intensifies. Polymarket has partnered with Chainalysis to deploy what it calls “a first-of-its-kind on-chain solution to monitor trading activity and…
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Polymarket has sought to reopen its main prediction markets platform to U.S. users as it is reportedly engaging regulators to remove a long-standing access ban. According to Bloomberg, the company has been in discussions with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission…
