polymarket
Summary
Polymarket is a cryptocurrency-based prediction market platform that allows users to bet on real-world events. Despite being the world's largest prediction market with accurate election forecasting, the platform faces significant concerns including regulatory violations, market manipulation allegations, and insider trading issues.
Connected Entities
4 entities- Shayne Coplan→member of→Polymarket(95%)
- Chaos Labs→associated with→Polymarket(75%)
- Inca Digital→associated with→Polymarket(75%)
- Shayne Coplan→controls→Polymarket(95%)
- + 1 more
Community submissions
- Under reviewincriminatingWayback pending8/15/2026, 10:11:13 PM
“Bloomberg investigation quantifies $200M in flagged insider trades and documents structural absence of insider trading rules — material new evidence for the existing Polymarket investigation.”
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- Under reviewincriminatingWayback pending6/2/2026, 2:30:42 AM
“NPR/DOJ reporting on May 27 2026 criminal charges against Google engineer Michele Spagnuolo for $1.2M Polymarket insider trading; second criminal case on Polymarket in 30 days”
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- Acceptedincriminating4/28/2026, 10:33:05 PM
“Should auto-accept due to trusted contributor rep”
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- Acceptedincriminating4/28/2026, 10:32:54 PMrep fixture 4
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- Acceptedincriminating4/28/2026, 10:32:54 PMrep fixture 3
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- Acceptedincriminating4/28/2026, 10:32:54 PMrep fixture 2
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- Acceptedincriminating4/28/2026, 10:32:54 PMrep fixture 1
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“CFTC official release on the $1.4M fine”
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Timeline(7 events)
June 2020
Polymarket launches and begins operating unregistered prediction markets
CFTC enforcement order2022
CFTC fines Polymarket $1.4 million for regulatory violations and forces it to block U.S. users
CFTC Press Release15 July 2025
DOJ and CFTC formally end investigations into Polymarket without bringing new charges
Wikipedia26 August 2025
Donald Trump Jr. joins advisory board and 1789 Capital makes strategic investment
PR Newswire25 November 2025
CFTC grants Amended Order of Designation allowing regulated U.S. operations
Bulldog Law24 April 2026
U.S. soldier charged with insider trading for $400,000+ profit on Venezuela operation bets
Department of JusticeDecision Log
- hash: FZcEKphkZhyFkRRxyN6DKksjptevxFnJfLKyPN761k2p
- hash: FHUneb6cctRgFQkScP2LkjrKRkuJmrLibjCSBRJYsNrm
- hash: 7Smi8vg5g8nCqAUb99RXEj8auiEYSqZ1A9Ku9NrWBtt8
This investigation is cryptographically anchored to the Solana blockchain (3 events). 6 of 6 cited source URLs have an Internet Archive snapshot.
model: claude-sonnet-4-20250514
generated: 4/24/2026, 6:24:47 PM
last updated: 7/24/2026, 4:29:00 PM
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