Football
Polymarket signs LeBron James for football campaign
LeBron James teased a Polymarket partnership expected to begin with American football, but neither party has disclosed the commercial terms.
Polymarket
Recap
Polymarket seeks $1b, Cronos reverses $75m hack, Bitcoin ETFs draw $731m | Weekly recap
In this week’s edition of the weekly recap, Polymarket pursued a $1 billion funding round at a proposed $21 billion valuation, while Cronos reversed its blockchain…
futures
Polymarket adds 20x perps for crypto, stocks and gold
Polymarket has launched perpetual futures across 10 crypto, equity, index, and commodity markets, allowing eligible international users to trade with leverage of up to 20 times.…
CFTC
Polymarket hit $1 billion in revenue and now 20 states want to shut it down
A prediction market that went from zero revenue to a billion dollar run rate in six months is signing deals with major sports leagues while state…
Donald Trump
Trump Jr.’s 1789 Capital leads $1B Polymarket funding round
Donald Trump Jr.’s 1789 Capital has agreed to lead a $1 billion Polymarket funding round with roughly $300 million that would value the prediction market platform…
Donald Trump
Polymarket targets $21B value in Trump Jr.-linked round
Trump Jr.-linked 1789 Capital plans to invest about $300 million as Polymarket seeks $1 billion at a reported $21 billion valuation.
News
Polymarket says surveillance systems ready for U.S. midterm trading
Polymarket has strengthened its trade surveillance and investigation systems ahead of the U.S. midterm elections, as the prediction market operator faces scrutiny over insider trading and…
News
Fortune Protocol integrates Polymarket liquidity into Fortune Markets
Fortune Protocol has integrated Polymarket liquidity into Fortune Markets, adding another source of prediction markets alongside Predict.fun while giving users a single interface to compare liquidity,…
CFTC
CFTC clashes with U.S. soldier over $400K Polymarket bet
The CFTC entered a criminal Polymarket case to defend its view that event contracts are swaps covered by commodities law.
News
NYSE parent may invest again in Polymarket as valuation crosses $20B: report
Intercontinental Exchange has signaled it may put more money into Polymarket’s next funding round after building a $1.64 billion stake in the prediction market platform. Bloomberg…