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Polymarket quietly lays groundwork to move beyond Polygon
Polymarket's next protocol is being built to carry positions and collateral across chains, setting up its biggest expansion beyond Polygon yet.
Polymarket says it isn't gambling. Its new health partner once put it in that category
Polymarket is fighting claims that it is a gambling business. Its new health partner once described it exactly that way.
Polymarket paid $112M for a regulated US comeback. New York says it's still illegal gambling
Polymarket spent $112 million securing a federally regulated route back into the U.S., but New York is testing whether that federal stamp protects it at all.
X sues accounts behind Kalshi, Polymarket trading tools over alleged $277K fraud
Paid trading tools for Kalshi, Polymarket remain online after X linked their namesake accounts to a network it says manipulated engagement for creator payouts.
StarkWare makes Polymarket bets harder to track as privacy wrapper goes live
Polymarket trades are normally public enough to reconstruct a user's positions. StarkWare is now trying to break that link.
Hunter Biden ties 30% of his new memecoin to Polymarket, where Trump Jr. is an adviser
Nearly a third of Hunter Biden's LAPTOP token supply will rise or disappear based on Polymarket bets, where Donald Trump Jr. sits on the advisory board.
Traders sued Polymarket over a disputed Strategy Bitcoin bet. The platform says they agreed not to take the fight to court
Two traders want a court to decide whether Polymarket wrongly settled a Strategy Bitcoin bet. Polymarket says the court shouldn't hear it at all.
Polymarket seeks $20B+ valuation four months after closing below its earlier target
Polymarket has returned to a $20 billion valuation target it didn't reach this spring.
Polymarket cuts settlement rewards 60% as thousands of bets remain unresolved
Polymarket cuts the reward paid to users who submit sports results from $2 to $0.80, while more than 4,500 soccer bets remain unresolved.
Polymarket US is preparing bets on arrests, pandemics, and disease outbreaks. Yes, these are regulated contracts
Traders may soon be able to bet through Polymarket US on individual arrests, disease case counts and whether the World Health Organization declares another pandemic.
Turkey quietly bans Polymarket's website under gambling authority order
Polymarket's website has been blocked in Turkey after the country's National Lottery Administration issued an access restriction on July 16.
Polymarket France legal fight escalates as regulators say even showing odds is illegal
French users were officially barred from betting on Polymarket in 2024, but its homepage remained accessible. Now the legal fight has escalated.
Polymarket traders may have manipulated Bitcoin to make $8.2M, Stanford-led study finds
Polymarket's fastest Bitcoin markets may have allowed a small group of traders to turn brief spot-price moves into $8.2 million in profits.
Polymarket gave sports traders three hours' notice, then raised fees by almost 70%
Polymarket gave sports traders the good news first, then told them they had about three hours before fees went up almost 70%.
Polymarket's POLY token looks further away amid trademark extension
Polymarket has spent months feeding expectations around a possible POLY token launch. A new trademark extension details now point to a longer wait.
Spotify wants Kalshi, Polymarket to make clear they aren't partners after a fake-streaming scandal
Spotify has pushed Kalshi and Polymarket into a new controversy after fake streams allegedly helped settle a multimillion-dollar market on its music charts.
Zuckerberg pushes Meta prediction market aimed at younger users
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg urged executives to explore partnerships with Polymarket and Kalshi as the company builds its own prediction market.
Polymarket revenue tops $1B shortly after launching in US: report
Polymarket revenue has surpassed the $1 billion mark as demand for crypto betting keeps rising amid the FIFA World Cup.
Securitize sues tZERO over tokenized securities patent dispute
Securitize sues tZERO in Delaware federal court, asking a judge to rule that it didn't infringe tZERO's tokenization patents.
Remember those viral get-rich betting clips? WSJ Polymarket investigation says they were all fake
A new WSJ Polymarket investigation found the prediction market platform paid college-age influencers to make clips about fake trades and fake wins.
CME CEO steps down after clashing with crypto perps and Polymarket
CME CEO Terry Duffy steps down shortly after criticising crypto perps and prediction markets.
CFTC prediction markets rule could leave war bets live even during review
CFTC prediction markets rules could ban contracts tied to war, but the agency's review process may not stop every market before trading starts.
Kalshi takes 58% of prediction market volume as Polymarket slips
Kalshi generated more than half of prediction market trading volume in May, widening its lead over Polymarket.
Polymarket KYC won't apply to main site, executive says
Polymarket KYC won't change how users access the main site, the company said, after a report linked possible identity checks to legal pressure.
Americans trust Polymarket more than Coinbase, Uber and Bank of America
Americans appear to trust Polymarket more than big regulated names, according to the 2026 Axios Harris Poll 100.
Polymarket exploit could have put $453M at risk, ex-Monad head of DeFi says
Ex-Monad head of DeFi says the recent Polymarket exploit could have been way worse.
Polymarket launches private-company markets to bet on pre-IPO milestones
The prediction market platform will use Nasdaq Private Market data to resolve new markets tied to private companies.
India betting ban puts Kalshi, Polymarket in legal spotlight
Kalshi and Polymarket are still letting users in India sign up and trade even after the country's technology ministry warned that the platforms are illegal.
Polymarket adds KYC for low-latency API trading access
Polymarket team member Mustafa reassured users on X that Polymarket will remain KYC-free.