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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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The Senate will not vote on crypto market structure before August 7. Prediction markets price passage at 16 percent. The math for September is worse than it looks. The most bipartisan digital asset bill ever to clear a chamber of…
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Polymarket is reportedly discussing a $1 billion raise above a $20 billion valuation as its U.S. platform and trading activity expand.
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Prediction markets Kalshi, Polymarket and Polymarket US reached $50.6 billion in July volume as World Cup trading drove a monthly record.
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Minnesota’s prediction market ban remains blocked as the CFTC, state regulators and political groups fight over control of event contracts.
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Polymarket traders cut the CLARITY Act’s chances of becoming law in 2026 to a record-low 27% after the Senate postponed action on the crypto market structure bill. CLARITY Act odds fall as Senate changes priorities The Polymarket contract asking whether…
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Everyone covering the prediction market legal war has been watching states. The more dangerous case is being argued in the Ninth Circuit by three California tribes under a different statute entirely, and at oral argument this month a judge told…
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In eighteen months, the prediction market industry has assembled the surveillance apparatus that took stock exchanges decades: named detection engines, encrypted prohibited-person lists, league partnerships, forensic academics, and employment disclosure for high-risk traders. Here is the architecture, who is building…
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A wallet-based DeFi book and a CFTC-regulated exchange share one brand. Custody, collateral, KYC, product scope and resolution all differ.
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Kalshi and Polymarket US won an injunction blocking Minnesota’s prediction market ban while three federal cases move toward final rulings.
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A binary derivative paying $1 if an outcome happens. How pricing works, where they trade legally, and why regulators still cannot categorize them.
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Senate Majority Leader John Thune has ruled out passage of the CLARITY Act before the August recess, as Polymarket traders cut its chance of becoming law in 2026 to 33%. Fortune reported on July 24 that Thune does not expect…
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Polymarket has announced a French court challenge five days after regulators ordered internet providers to block the platform over gambling-loss and market-manipulation concerns. Reuters reported on July 22 that the crypto-based prediction market intends to contest the National Gambling Authority’s…
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Twelve states, criminal charges, tribes at the Ninth Circuit, and the CFTC suing states. Inside the federalism war over prediction markets.
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Polymarket sent nearly 100 suspicious wallets to authorities after $200M in first-half 2026 trades showed possible insider trading patterns.
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The US House Agriculture Committee has scheduled a hearing on sports prediction markets as two gaming associations press Congress to prohibit sports contracts offered by platforms including Kalshi and Polymarket. According to a committee release, the Subcommittee on Commodity Markets,…
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France orders ISPs to block Polymarket, citing illegal gambling, weak user checks and concerns about possible manipulation of event markets.