TREE NEWS reports: The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission is investigating whether prediction market Polymarket violated a 2022 agreement that barred it from serving US users. The probe covers Polymarket’s US access controls, advertising campaigns, and customer onboarding and protection measures on its US platform. Polymarket settled with the CFTC in 2022 over offering unregistered event contracts and paid a $1.4 million penalty.
CFTC probes Polymarket over alleged breach of 2022 US user ban
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The CFTC's scrutiny now extends beyond the original unregistered-contracts issue to the operational safeguards Polymarket promised after its 2022 settlement, making enforcement risk a matter of compliance conduct rather than just product classification. This matters for offshore prediction markets and their US-facing growth tactics, since access controls and advertising are the front line of jurisdictional boundaries. Whether the probe stays focused on onboarding and protection measures or broadens into a fresh enforcement action is the open question.
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