Polymarket

Stanford Research Warns Polymarket’s 5-Minute Bitcoin Contracts May Enable Price Manipulation

Prediction markets keep drawing more traders from around the world. The new studies by scholars have revealed that there might be specific contractual designs. These would inadvertently favour such strategic behaviour of market participants. Scholars from Stanford University and Singapore Management University studied five-minute Bitcoin prediction contracts traded on Polymarket.

July 16, 2026 2 mins read

Polymarket Moves Closer to U.S. Margin Trading With Key Regulatory Filing

The largest prediction market platform, Polymarket, is not a place where people bet on elections anymore. The platform is making a deliberate push toward institutional territory. On July 3, Polymarket filed an application through its affiliate, Coming Home GBA LLC, to operate as a futures commission merchant with the National

July 10, 2026 2 mins read

$3M Exploit Hits Polymarket: Users to Receive Full Refunds After Third-Party Breach

The platform for predicting market users impacted by a website exploit that led to the theft of about $3 million in cryptocurrency assets will receive full reimbursement from Polymarket. The claim is that, instead of an issue with the underlying architecture of the platform, the incident was due to malware

June 26, 2026 2 mins read

Kalshi, Polymarket Tighten Rules to Curb Insider Trading

Prediction market platforms Kalshi and Polymarket have planned to launch new rules to curb insider trading and market manipulation as regulatory pressure from Capitol Hill boosts. The March 23 blog post includes the statement of Kalshi, which mentions that it has rolled out new screening tools to block potential candidates

March 24, 2026 2 mins read

Polymarket Acquires Brahma to Strengthen DeFi Infrastructure

The largest prediction market, Polymarket, has publicised that it is acquiring Brahma, a crypto startup offering decentralised finance (DeFi) infrastructure. As per the announcement on March 18, Brahma mentioned that as part of this transition, our team will commit itself to evolving Polymarket’s stack and product suite. Brahma was rolled

March 19, 2026 2 mins read

Argentina Bans Polymarket Over Illegal Gambling Concerns Following Colombia

Argentina’s authorities have blocked Polymarket across the country after a ruling by a Buenos Aires court. It declared that it operated illegally and outside the country’s legal framework and regulations regarding gambling. The country’s authorities have asked ENACOM to impose a blockade against Polymarket by internet service providers. The limited

March 17, 2026 2 mins read

Polymarket Users Threaten Journalist Over Iran Missile Report Dispute

Users of the crypto prediction market Polymarket reportedly intimidated journalist Emanuel Fabian to modify his story on the Iranian missile attack incident. Fabian reported that a missile had struck an open area in Beit Shemesh. However, there were no casualties in the attack. The story was based on the information

March 17, 2026 3 mins read

Prediction Market Polymarket Faces Scrutiny After Andrew Tate X Bet Profits

The prediction market platform, Polymarket, has regained prominence as analysts have detected unusual trading activities related to influencer Andrew Tate. Researchers have identified multiple accounts that have participated in prediction markets related to influencer Andrew Tate’s activities on the social media platform X. The prediction markets enabled users to bet

March 11, 2026 3 mins read

Kalshi and Polymarket Face Scrutiny as Lawmakers Target Death-Related Betting Markets

Federal Ruling Raises Risk for Polymarket, Kalshi in Nevada

The US federal court ruling has pushed the risk even higher that Nevada regulators could look for halting prediction-market trading in the state after a judge sent a contest comprising Polymarket’s parent company, Blockratize, back to state court. A federal judge declined arguments that US regulation under the Commodity Exchange

March 3, 2026 2 mins read

Polymarket Bets Spark Insider Trading Concerns

ZachXBT, a blockchain sleuth, published its report on February 26, in which Axiom is a firm whose employees he believed had used non-public information to position profitable trades. The scrutiny had been teased for days, and Polymarket had made a contract permitting users to bet on which firm would be

February 27, 2026 2 mins read