France ordered internet providers to block Polymarket after the gambling regulator cited 578,751 June visits, geo-blocking workarounds and market-manipulation concerns.
Blockchain.com says eligible users will soon access Polymarket inside its app, a prediction-markets push timed to the World Cup's closing matches.
Goldman Sachs has prohibited staff from trading finance and political event contracts, while Wall Street rivals add controls around Kalshi and Polymarket.
Polymarket filed for U.S. futures commission merchant registration, opening a path to regulated margin trading in prediction markets if regulators approve.
North Carolina's new budget law recognizes CFTC authority over prediction markets and sets a 6% tax on platform fee revenue from state residents starting in 2027.
ESMA warned that some prediction-market event contracts may fall under EU binary-options bans, raising a new hurdle for Polymarket-style products.
DraftKings launched DKeX, its proprietary prediction markets exchange, after DraftKings Predictions hit 3.4B annualized consumer volume.
A Wall Street Journal investigation found 1,105 staged Polymarket betting videos drew 140 million views, raising disclosure and trust questions.
Charles Schwab is working with Cboe to offer S&P 500 binary options, pushing prediction-market mechanics toward more than 39 million brokerage accounts.
Kentucky sued Kalshi, Polymarket and Coinbase-linked entities over alleged unlicensed sports betting, citing nearly 23B in Kalshi contract volume.
A new Polymarket wallet turned Spain's 0-0 World Cup draw with Cabo Verde into roughly $9M in profit, exposing prediction-market risk.
The CFTC proposed a 90-day review framework for prediction-market event contracts as Kalshi and Polymarket volumes surge.
Finding Satoshi argues Hal Finney and Len Sassaman jointly created Bitcoin, sending Satoshi-move odds to 10% as old evidence around RPOW, timing and dormant coins gets a fresh look.
Banks are escalating their fight over stablecoin yield in the CLARITY Act, while Polymarket still shows only 54% odds of passage and bitcoin trades near 75.7K.
BIP-361 would block sends to quantum-vulnerable Bitcoin addresses, sunset legacy signatures, and put early BTC wallets at risk of being frozen if holders do not migrate in time.
White House crypto adviser Patrick Witt says the stablecoin-yield compromise is holding, Senate talks restarted on April 14, and Polymarket still fell to 54%.
The CLARITY Act is moving back toward a Senate vote after its 294-134 House win, fresh stablecoin compromises, and a new Treasury push, while Polymarket remains stuck in the mid-60s.
Lightning Labs CTO Olaoluwa Osuntokun and StarkWare researcher Avihu Levy unveiled new Bitcoin quantum wallet prototypes as BTC held near 72,255 and the Satoshi market stayed at 9%.
Banks and crypto firms have reached a stablecoin rewards compromise that could restart the CLARITY Act, while Polymarket held passage odds at 62% and attention shifted back to Coinbase.
X is auto-locking first-time crypto posters for verification as traders price April X Money launch odds at 51%, fueling talk that the platform is clearing scams out before payments go wider.
Coinbase is being accused of sabotaging the CLARITY Act after Polymarket held the bill at 54% on March 29 and bad-draft rumors spread across crypto X.
Patrick Witt warned Coinbase there is no time to wait as Polymarket odds for the CLARITY Act fell from an 82% peak on February 20 to 52% on March 28.
The CFTC opened a lane for bitcoin margin collateral as a broader SEC-CFTC reset put crypto market structure back in focus.
ECB workshops, pilot plans, and digital euro design documents show Europe is preparing ATM access, co-badged card rails, and merchant acceptance as tokenization momentum builds.
The CLARITY Act's 2026 path is tightening as stablecoin rewards remain the key fight, with Polymarket odds down to 56% on March 15.
Polymarket odds for the CLARITY Act fell to 62% as major U.S. banks weighed legal action over OCC trust-charter approvals they say could let crypto firms scale bank-like services without the full banking rulebook.
Trump says banks are trying to block the CLARITY Act to stop Americans from earning 4% to 5% on stablecoins, as bitcoin rebounds and fear stays elevated.