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Polymarket Gets Hit With $487,000 Dutch Penalty for Halting Service One Day Too Late

The Dutch gambling regulator (KSA) has moved to collect €420,000 (~$487,000) from the company behind Polymarket, the latest sign that Europe is treating prediction markets as unlicensed gambling even as…

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France Quietly Overtakes Spain as Two World Cup Prediction Markets Near $3B in Combined Volume

Traders on Polymarket and Kalshi have committed more than $2.8 billion combined to predict the 2026 FIFA World Cup winner, with France holding the top spot across both platforms as…

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Kalshi’s Perpetual Futures Top $5.5 Billion in Two Weeks as It Eyes Markets Beyond Crypto

Prediction-market platform Kalshi says its newly launched perpetual futures have generated more than $5.5 billion in trading volume in just two weeks, and the company is already planning to push…

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Bitbank Drops Polymarket Warning: Japan Traders Face Account Suspension Over Betting Deposits

Japan’s Bitbank, one of the country’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges, announced on June 15, 2026, that users transacting with prediction market platforms, including Polymarket, could face immediate account suspension. Bitbank Draws…

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Traders Bet $16.4M on Bitcoin Staying Below $75K Through June — Here’s the Full Breakdown

Across Polymarket and Kalshi, traders have deployed more than $78 million in bitcoin price prediction bets for 2026, and the collective signal is clear: the crowd is not expecting a…

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Kalshi Traders Price Fable 5 Return at 68% Before July 1 After Historic AI Ban

It’s been reported that Amazon CEO Andy Jassy alerted senior Trump administration officials to security findings from his company’s internal research team, setting off a chain of events that ended…

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Iran Denies Sunday Signing as Trump Declares Strait of Hormuz ‘Open to All’ Tomorrow

U.S. President Donald Trump declared Saturday that a landmark agreement with Iran will be signed on Sunday, June 14, with the Strait of Hormuz reopening to all shipping immediately afterward,…

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CFTC Chairman Selig Backs Prediction Markets With New Case-by-Case Framework

The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) published a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on Wednesday, laying out a structured, contract-by-contract review process for event contracts that may involve terrorism, war,…

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