{"investigation":{"slug":"polymarket","entity_name":"Polymarket","trust_score":25,"severity_base":35,"score_modifier":-9.76,"confidence":0.8,"status":"published","content_type":"investigation","summary":"Polymarket is a cryptocurrency-based prediction market built on Polygon, founded by Shayne Coplan, that lets users wager on real-world events including elections, geopolitics and sports. The platform is the largest prediction market globally and has drawn praise for its election forecasting, but it carries substantial and growing risk indicators: a 2022 CFTC settlement and years of U.S. user exclusion, a 2024 FBI search and subsequent DOJ/CFTC probe of its founder (closed without charges in 2025), a 2026 return to regulated U.S. operations via the CFTC-licensed QCEX acquisition, and — as of September 2026 — three newly disclosed CFTC insider-trading investigations, a Bloomberg/Polysights analysis flagging roughly $200 million in suspicious trades, repeated oracle-resolution controversies, multiple state gambling-law actions (including a September 2026 Connecticut cease-and-desist), pending class actions over unlicensed sports betting and allegedly staged influencer marketing, and a May 2026 wallet-drainer scheme impersonating the platform.","sections":[{"content":"In January 2022, the CFTC filed and settled charges against Polymarket's operating entity, Blockratize Inc., for offering off-exchange event-based binary options contracts without registering as a designated contract market or swap execution facility. The order required Blockratize to pay a $1.4 million civil penalty, wind down non-compliant markets, and cease further violations; Polymarket subsequently blocked U.S. IP addresses from trading. In November 2024, FBI agents searched the Manhattan apartment and offices of founder and CEO Shayne Coplan as part of a Department of Justice and CFTC investigation into whether Polymarket had continued to allow U.S. persons to trade after the 2022 settlement. In July 2025, reporting indicated the DOJ and CFTC investigations were closed without additional charges being filed. In July 2025 Polymarket acquired QCEX, a CFTC-licensed derivatives exchange and clearinghouse, for $112 million, forming QCX LLC. The CFTC granted QCX a no-action letter in September 2025, and on November 25, 2025 the CFTC issued an amended Order of Designation granting Polymarket's QCX LLC status as a fully regulated Designated Contract Market, allowing the platform to re-open to U.S. users through regulated brokers after roughly four years of exclusion.","heading":"Regulatory History: 2022 CFTC Settlement Through 2026 U.S. Re-Entry","sources":[{"url":"https://www.cftc.gov/PressRoom/PressReleases/8478-22","name":"CFTC Orders Event-Based Binary Options Markets Operator to Pay $1.4 Million Penalty","type":"regulatory","credibility":1},{"url":"https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2022/01/03/cftc-fines-crypto-betting-service-polymarket-14m-for-unregistered-swaps","name":"CFTC Fines Crypto Betting Service Polymarket $1.4M for Unregistered Swaps","type":"news_article","credibility":2},{"url":"https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2025/09/03/u-s-cftc-gives-go-ahead-for-polymarket-s-new-exchange-qcx","name":"U.S. CFTC Gives Go-Ahead for Polymarket's New Exchange, QCX","type":"news_article","credibility":2},{"url":"https://www.regulatoryoversight.com/2025/12/cftc-approval-allows-polymarket-to-reenter-the-u-s-market/","name":"CFTC Approval Allows Polymarket to Reenter the U.S. Market","type":"news_article","credibility":2},{"url":"https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/polymarket-acquires-cftc-licensed-exchange-and-clearinghouse-qcex-for-112-million-302509626.html","name":"Polymarket Acquires CFTC-Licensed Exchange and Clearinghouse QCEX for $112 Million","type":"official","credibility":2}],"severity":"high"},{"content":"Records obtained via a Freedom of Information Act request and reported by CCN and other outlets in September 2026 show the CFTC approved at least three previously undisclosed investigations into potential insider trading on Polymarket contracts between May and July 2026. The first, approved by CFTC Chairman Michael Selig in early May, examines contracts tied to pardons issued by former President Joe Biden; one trader allegedly made more than $300,000 correctly betting on specific pardon recipients. A second probe examines Iran-related war contracts after a cluster of accounts allegedly generated $2.4 million with a roughly 98% win rate. A third, opened in July, examines contracts tied to Google's 2025 Year in Search rankings for possible trading on nonpublic information. Reporting indicates the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York is conducting a parallel investigation. The existence of an investigation does not establish wrongdoing by any trader or by Polymarket itself.","heading":"September 2026: Three New CFTC Insider-Trading Probes","sources":[{"url":"https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/crypto/articles/cftc-quietly-opened-three-polymarket-095710457.html","name":"CFTC Quietly Opened Three Polymarket Insider Trading Probes, FOIA Records Show","type":"news_article","credibility":2},{"url":"https://www.crowdfundinsider.com/2026/09/309904-cftc-initiates-probes-into-polymarket-bets-on-biden-pardons-iran-and-google-rankings/","name":"CFTC Initiates Probes Into Polymarket Bets On Biden Pardons, Iran And Google Rankings","type":"news_article","credibility":2},{"url":"https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/26/cftc-is-conducting-an-investigation-into-polymarket-source-says.html","name":"CFTC is conducting an investigation into Polymarket, source says","type":"news_article","credibility":1},{"url":"https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-26/cftc-conducting-broad-probe-into-prediction-market-polymarket","name":"CFTC Conducting Broad Probe Into Prediction Market Polymarket","type":"news_article","credibility":1}],"severity":"critical"},{"content":"A Bloomberg Businessweek investigation published in 2026, conducted with prediction-market analytics firm Polysights, reviewed roughly 34,000 Polymarket transactions flagged as displaying characteristics associated with potential insider activity, covering August 2025 through June 2026. Bloomberg reported that approximately $200 million of the flagged volume fell within the first half of 2026 alone. Polysights scores trades across metrics including wager size, account age, how favorable the odds were at entry, and concentration of a trader's volume in one or a few markets. Bloomberg and Polysights caution that a flagged trading pattern can justify scrutiny but does not by itself establish that a trader possessed confidential information or breached a legal duty; some Polymarket-aligned analysts and commentators have publicly disputed specific examples in Bloomberg's dataset, arguing flagged wallets belonged to ordinary high-conviction bettors rather than insiders. Separately, Bloomberg reported a wave of suspicious bets ahead of an Iran ceasefire announcement, and Polymarket has said it refers suspect wallets to law enforcement.","heading":"Bloomberg/Polysights Analysis: ~$200 Million in Flagged Trades","sources":[{"url":"https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2026-polymarket-traders-who-knew-the-future/","name":"Polymarket and Kalshi Grapple With a New Era of Insider Traders","type":"news_article","credibility":1},{"url":"https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2026-polymarket-bets-iran-war-insider-trading/","name":"Polymarket Bets on Iran Deal Fuel Fresh Insider-Trading Fears","type":"news_article","credibility":1},{"url":"https://financefeeds.com/polymarket-insider-trading-34000-trades-flagged/","name":"Bloomberg Reviewed 34,000 Flagged Polymarket Trades. Who Was Watching?","type":"news_article","credibility":2},{"url":"https://en.bloomingbit.io/feed/news/116655","name":"Polymarket Refers 100 Suspect Wallets to Law Enforcement in Insider-Trading Clampdown","type":"news_article","credibility":2},{"url":"https://www.cryptopolitan.com/bloomberg-polymarket-insider-trading/","name":"Bloomberg's Polymarket insider trading investigation dismissed as well-timed trades","type":"news_article","credibility":2}],"severity":"high"},{"content":"In April 2026, the Department of Justice charged active-duty U.S. Army soldier Gannon Ken Van Dyke, who had participated in planning and executing the U.S. military operation against Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro ('Operation Absolute Resolve'), with using classified information to place at least 13 Polymarket bets on Venezuela-related outcomes, netting more than $400,000. Prosecutors allege Van Dyke opened a Polymarket account around December 26, 2025 using a VPN to obscure his U.S. location. He was charged with unlawful use of confidential government information for personal gain, theft of nonpublic government information, commodities fraud, wire fraud, and an unlawful monetary transaction — the first U.S. criminal case arising from alleged insider trading on Polymarket. Separately, Israeli authorities reportedly arrested individuals accused of using classified information to trade on the platform.","heading":"Criminal Case: Soldier Charged Over Maduro-Operation Bets","sources":[{"url":"https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/us-soldier-charged-using-classified-information-profit-prediction-market-bets","name":"U.S. Soldier Charged With Using Classified Information To Profit From Prediction Market Bets","type":"court_filing","credibility":1},{"url":"https://www.npr.org/2026/04/23/nx-s1-5797957/maduro-raid-charges-polymarket-insider","name":"U.S. soldier charged with insider trading over Maduro's ouster","type":"news_article","credibility":1},{"url":"https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2026/4/23/us-soldier-charged-with-using-polymarket-to-bet-on-nicolas-maduro-abduction","name":"US soldier charged with using Polymarket to bet on Nicolas Maduro abduction","type":"news_article","credibility":1}],"severity":"critical"},{"content":"Polymarket relies on UMA's optimistic oracle to resolve markets: a proposer posts a bonded outcome, a challenge period runs, and disputes are settled by a token-weighted vote of UMA holders. This mechanism has produced several controversies. In late March 2025, a market asking whether Ukraine would agree to a Trump-administration minerals deal before April — trading near 9% odds — resolved 'Yes' after a single participant controlling roughly five million UMA tokens across three wallets cast about 25% of the deciding vote, despite no deal having been signed; the actual minerals agreement was not signed until more than a month later. Polymarket said via Discord that because the outcome was 'not a market failure,' it would not issue refunds, while calling the episode 'unprecedented' and pledging to work with UMA to prevent recurrence. Separately, in June 2024 UMA's oracle resolved a market on whether Barron Trump was involved with the DJT token as 'No,' but Polymarket publicly overruled its own oracle, stating it was 'conclusive' that Barron Trump was involved 'in some way,' without publishing supporting evidence, and moved to refund 'Yes' bettors — one of the only instances in which Polymarket has overridden UMA's resolution. A separate disputed market on an Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire drew user complaints and, per reporting, congressional attention to CFTC and SEC jurisdictional gaps over prediction-market oracle governance; Rep. Ritchie Torres has publicly called on the CFTC to examine suspicious trading ahead of a Trump administration Iran ceasefire announcement.","heading":"UMA Oracle Manipulation and Resolution Overrides","sources":[{"url":"https://thedefiant.io/news/defi/polymarket-s-usd7m-ukraine-mineral-deal-debacle-traced-to-oracle-whale","name":"Polymarket's $7M Ukraine Mineral Deal Debacle Traced to Oracle Whale","type":"news_article","credibility":2},{"url":"https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2025/03/27/polymarket-uma-communities-lock-horns-after-usd7m-ukraine-bet-resolves","name":"Polymarket, UMA Communities Lock Horns After $7M Ukraine Bet Resolves","type":"news_article","credibility":2},{"url":"https://www.web3isgoinggreat.com/single/polymarket-governance-attack","name":"Polymarket suffers governance attack as whale manipulates Ukraine bet resolution; refuses refunds","type":"community_report","credibility":2},{"url":"https://www.theblock.co/post/302171/polymarket-contradicts-umas-resolution-on-barron-trumps-involvement-with-djt-token","name":"Polymarket contradicts UMA's resolution on Barron Trump's involvement with DJT token","type":"news_article","credibility":2},{"url":"https://cryptonews.com/news/polymarket-oracle-risk-cftc-regulatory-scrutiny/","name":"Polymarket Crisis, Oracle Risk, and Regulatory Scrutiny: Israel-Hezbollah Ceasefire in Focus","type":"news_article","credibility":2},{"url":"https://ritchietorres.house.gov/posts/rep-torres-calls-on-cftc-to-investigate-suspicious-polymarket-trades-ahead-of-trumps-iran-ceasefire-announcement","name":"Rep. Torres Calls on CFTC to Investigate Suspicious Polymarket Trades Ahead of Trump's Iran Ceasefire Announcement","type":"official","credibility":1}],"severity":"high"},{"content":"Polymarket has been the target of multiple 2026 security incidents. On June 26, 2026 the platform disclosed a supply-chain attack in which malicious JavaScript, delivered through a compromised third-party frontend dependency, tricked a small number of users into approving fraudulent transactions, resulting in approximately $3 million stolen from fewer than 15 accounts; Polymarket said its backend and market-resolution infrastructure were not affected and committed to fully reimbursing victims. This incident has its own dedicated investigation page (see 'Polymarket June 2026 Supply-Chain Attack'). Separately, in May 2026 on-chain investigator ZachXBT identified 'PolyArb,' a fake prediction-market product using a website with a built-in wallet drainer, which had built an apparently long-running credible-looking social media presence and reportedly interacted with at least one known tech investor before being flagged. Later that month, on May 22, 2026, ZachXBT flagged a separate incident in which roughly $520,000 (reported elsewhere as up to $700,000) was drained from Polymarket-linked smart contracts on Polygon; Polymarket attributed the loss to a compromised private key for an internal operations wallet tied to its rewards payout system, not a flaw in its core adapter or market-resolution contracts, and said user funds and market resolutions were unaffected.","heading":"Security Incidents: Supply-Chain Attack, Wallet Drainer, and Internal Key Compromise","sources":[{"url":"https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2026/05/22/zachxbt-flags-usd520k-polymarket-exploit-on-polygon-team-says-funds-are-safe","name":"ZachXBT flags $520K Polymarket exploit on Polygon, team says funds are safe","type":"news_article","credibility":2},{"url":"https://www.bitget.com/news/detail/12560605395916","name":"ZachXBT: PolyArb for Fake Prediction Market Product with Wallet Swapper","type":"news_article","credibility":2},{"url":"https://cryptonews.net/news/security/32805424/","name":"Beware of wallet draining products on Polymarket, prediction markets, analysts warn","type":"news_article","credibility":2},{"url":"https://cyberinsider.com/polymarket-suffers-supply-chain-attack-leading-to-3-million-crypto-theft/","name":"Polymarket suffers supply chain attack leading to $3 million crypto theft","type":"news_article","credibility":2},{"url":"https://www.halborn.com/blog/post/explained-the-polymarket-hack-june-2026","name":"Explained: The Polymarket Hack (June 2026)","type":"research","credibility":2}],"severity":"high"},{"content":"On (reported) September 10, 2026, Connecticut's Department of Consumer Protection, joined by Governor Ned Lamont and Attorney General William Tong, issued cease-and-desist orders to nine platforms offering sports event contracts — including Polymarket, Coinbase, Crypto.com, Robinhood, ProphetX, Novig, Webull, Gemini, and Underdog Predict — directing them to stop advertising, promoting, or offering sports event contracts to Connecticut residents and to permit withdrawals, citing the state's gambling and unfair-trade-practices laws; the state also issued roughly 30 related subpoenas to payment processors, app stores, identity-verification providers and sports-data firms. Underdog subsequently sued Connecticut officials in federal court to block the order as applied to its contracts. Connecticut's action follows a broader pattern: Baltimore filed suit against Kalshi and Polymarket over allegedly unlicensed sports betting in August 2026, and state regulators in New York, Wisconsin and Utah have previously denied prediction-market platforms injunctions that would have blocked gaming-law enforcement.","heading":"State Gambling-Law Enforcement: Connecticut and Others","sources":[{"url":"https://www.yogonet.com/international/news/2026/09/14/126372-connecticut-orders-nine-prediction-markets-to-halt-sports-event-contracts","name":"Connecticut orders nine prediction markets to halt sports event contracts","type":"news_article","credibility":2},{"url":"https://greenwichfreepress.com/news/government/new-actions-taken-against-illegal-prediction-markets-offering-sports-wagers-in-connecticut-253405/","name":"New Actions Taken Against Illegal Prediction Markets Offering Sports Wagers in Connecticut","type":"news_article","credibility":2},{"url":"https://www.theblock.co/news/regulation/2026-09-16-underdog-sues-connecticut-415242","name":"Underdog sues Connecticut to stop sports prediction market crackdown","type":"news_article","credibility":2},{"url":"https://www.yogonet.com/international/news/2026/08/17/125902-baltimore-sues-kalshi-and-polymarket-over-unlicensed-sports-betting","name":"Baltimore sues Kalshi and Polymarket over unlicensed sports betting","type":"news_article","credibility":2},{"url":"https://www.pymnts.com/legal/2026/connecticut-targets-prediction-markets-distribution-stack/","name":"Connecticut Targets Prediction Markets' Distribution Stack","type":"news_article","credibility":2}],"severity":"high"},{"content":"A putative class action filed February 11, 2026 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York alleges Polymarket operates an unlawful sports-gambling enterprise nationwide by marketing itself as a 'prediction market' while offering contracts on game outcomes and player performance that are functionally indistinguishable from traditional sportsbook wagers (point spreads, over/unders), in alleged violation of state gambling and consumer-protection laws; the complaint estimates the volume of Polymarket's sports-related contracts at more than $6 billion. A federal judge subsequently consolidated two related proposed class actions (Miro San Diego and Yoon) into a single case in the same court on June 12, 2026. These claims remain allegations pending adjudication; Polymarket disputes that its event contracts constitute unlicensed gambling and has separately sued to challenge state enforcement, including litigation against New Mexico.","heading":"Class Actions: Unlicensed Sports Gambling","sources":[{"url":"https://www.classaction.org/news/polymarket-runs-illegal-online-sports-betting-platform-class-action-lawsuit-alleges","name":"Polymarket Runs Illegal Online Sports Betting Platform, Class Action Lawsuit Alleges","type":"news_article","credibility":2},{"url":"https://www.law360.com/articles/2438487/polymarket-hit-with-class-action-for-disguising-sports-bets","name":"Polymarket Hit With Class Action For 'Disguising' Sports Bets","type":"news_article","credibility":2},{"url":"https://www.aboutlawsuits.com/polymarket-gambling-lawsuits-consolidated-single-class-action/","name":"Polymarket Gambling Lawsuits To Be Consolidated Into Single Class Action","type":"news_article","credibility":2},{"url":"https://sbcamericas.com/2026/07/02/polymarket-sues-new-mexico/","name":"Polymarket Locks Horns With New Mexico in Federal Court","type":"news_article","credibility":2}],"severity":"high"},{"content":"Polymarket faces separate litigation alleging deceptive marketing practices. In June 2026, the National Association of Consumer Advocates (NACA) sued Polymarket in Washington, D.C., alleging the company ran a deceptive influencer campaign involving undisclosed paid endorsements, staged betting videos filmed on simulated copies of the Polymarket website that the company itself built and operated, and a 'clipping' scheme intended to manufacture apparent virality. A related class action followed shortly after from a D.C. resident alleging the same practices. According to reporting tied to a Wall Street Journal investigation cited in the litigation, creators in the analyzed videos appeared to win close to $900,000 combined, while the complaint alleges the same underlying bets placed on the real platform would have produced more than $166,000 in losses; in roughly one in ten videos, the complaint alleges footage was spliced or headlines fabricated to make losing bets appear to be wins. These cases remain pending and the allegations are unproven.","heading":"Class Actions and Consumer-Protection Complaints: Influencer Marketing","sources":[{"url":"https://www.mondaq.com/unitedstates/consumer-law/1840494/class-action-follows-nacas-polymarket-influencer-lawsuit","name":"Class Action Follows NACA's Polymarket Influencer Lawsuit","type":"news_article","credibility":2},{"url":"https://predictionnews.com/story/polymarket-sued-over-alleged-secret-payments-to-influencers-for-deceptive-posts","name":"Polymarket hit with second influencer-marketing lawsuit","type":"news_article","credibility":2},{"url":"https://www.classaction.org/news/polymarket-lawsuit-claims-platform-secretly-paid-content-creators-for-deceptive-social-media-posts","name":"Polymarket Lawsuit Claims Platform Secretly Paid Content Creators for Deceptive Social Media Posts","type":"news_article","credibility":2},{"url":"https://www.law360.com/consumerprotection/articles/2521251","name":"Polymarket Accused Of Using Fake Wins To Woo US Users","type":"news_article","credibility":2}],"severity":"high"},{"content":"Ahead of the 2024 U.S. presidential election, blockchain analytics firms Chaos Labs and Inca Digital independently analyzed Polymarket's presidential market and reported signs of wash trading — repeated buying and selling designed to inflate apparent volume. Chaos Labs estimated roughly one-third of the presidential market's reported volume constituted wash trading and found Polymarket's volume figures conflated traded shares with dollar amounts (e.g., counting a $0.01 'Yes' share as $1 of volume). Inca Digital separately estimated actual on-chain transaction volume at roughly $1.75 billion versus Polymarket's reported $2.7 billion figure. These findings do not establish that Polymarket itself engaged in manipulation, but raise questions about the reliability of its headline trading-volume statistics.","heading":"Wash Trading and Market-Manipulation Research (2024)","sources":[{"url":"https://finance.yahoo.com/news/exclusive-election-betting-polymarket-gives-142008194.html","name":"Exclusive: Election betting site Polymarket gives Trump a 67% chance of winning but is rife with fake 'wash' trading, researchers say","type":"news_article","credibility":2},{"url":"https://inca.digital/news/fortune-polymarket/","name":"Exclusive: Election betting site Polymarket is rife with fake 'wash' trading, researchers say (Inca Digital)","type":"research","credibility":2}],"severity":"medium"},{"content":"France's national gambling authority, the ANJ, first imposed a financial-transaction block on French residents' use of Polymarket in November 2024, though the site itself remained accessible. Citing continued growth in French usage despite the transaction ban — reportedly over 578,000 visits and roughly 205,000 unique French visitors in June 2026 alone — the ANJ escalated in July 2026, ordering French internet service providers to block access to Polymarket's website entirely on the grounds that it constitutes unlicensed gambling. Polymarket said it was surprised by the decision, argued the measure unfairly captured users accessing the site purely for information rather than trading, and said it would contest the block in French courts.","heading":"International Restrictions: France Geoblock","sources":[{"url":"https://casinobeats.com/2026/07/23/polymarket-vows-to-fight-france-geoblock-ban-in-court/","name":"Polymarket Vows to Fight France Geoblock Ban in Court","type":"news_article","credibility":2},{"url":"https://cryptoslate.com/polymarket-blocked-french-transactions-but-578751-users-later-france-blocked-the-entire-site/","name":"France blocked Polymarket after its transaction controls failed to stop 578,751 new French visitors","type":"news_article","credibility":2},{"url":"https://www.cointribune.com/en/french-gambling-authority-orders-isps-to-block-polymarket/","name":"Polymarket blocked in France on ANJ order for illegal gambling","type":"news_article","credibility":2}],"severity":"medium"},{"content":"On August 26, 2025, Polymarket announced a strategic investment from 1789 Capital, the venture firm co-founded with backing from Donald Trump Jr., who simultaneously joined Polymarket's advisory board. The investment, reported in the double-digit millions, came as Polymarket was separately closing a roughly $200 million funding round led by Peter Thiel's Founders Fund at a reported $1 billion valuation. By September 2026, 1789 Capital had sharply expanded its stake, leading roughly $300 million of a $1 billion round that valued Polymarket at $21 billion, while Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) had separately become the platform's largest shareholder after committing roughly $1.6 billion since October 2025. The appointment has drawn commentary about potential conflicts of interest given the Trump administration's concurrent role in setting the CFTC's regulatory posture toward Polymarket's U.S. re-entry, though no regulatory body has taken formal action specifically over the board appointment.","heading":"Political Connections and Conflicts of Interest","sources":[{"url":"https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-26/trump-jr-joins-polymarket-advisory-board-as-1789-boosts-stake","name":"Trump Jr. Joins Polymarket Advisory Board as 1789 Boosts Stake","type":"news_article","credibility":1},{"url":"https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/26/polymarket-secures-investment-from-trump-jr-backed-1789-capital.html","name":"Polymarket secures investment from Trump Jr-backed 1789 Capital","type":"news_article","credibility":1},{"url":"https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-31/polymarket-funding-round-led-by-1789-values-firm-at-21-billion","name":"Polymarket funding round led by 1789 values firm at $21 billion","type":"news_article","credibility":1},{"url":"https://www.forbes.com/sites/siladityaray/2026/09/01/trump-jrs-venture-fund-will-invest-300-million-in-polymarkets-latest-funding-round/","name":"Trump Jr.'s venture fund will invest $300 million in Polymarket's latest funding round","type":"news_article","credibility":1}],"severity":"medium"}],"timeline":[{"date":"2022-01-03","event":"CFTC settles charges against Polymarket operator Blockratize for $1.4 million over unregistered binary-options trading; 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