New Polymarket Bets Again Raise Questions of Insider Knowledge
Three Polymarket accounts made about $611,000 betting on a U.S.-Iran ceasefire before President Donald Trump’s conditional ceasefire announcement, according to a Decrypt report citing blockchain analytics firm Bubblemaps, in trades that renewed scrutiny of possible insider activity on prediction markets.
CFTC To Focus on Prediction Markets, Willful AML Violations
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) will prioritize enforcement against insider trading in prediction markets, manipulation in energy markets, spoofing, retail fraud, and willful violations of anti-money-laundering (AML) laws, the agency’s new enforcement director said Tuesday.
FSB Warns Market Rally Raises Specter of Sudden Crash
The world’s top financial watchdog warned that a sharp run-up in global asset prices has left markets vulnerable to the potential for a crash given current economic and geopolitical uncertainties.