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CryptoCoinDesk · 85d ago

Americans traded $571 million on Polymarket politic bets despite U.S. ban

U.S.-linked wallets traded $571 million in political contracts on Polymarket over the past year despite the platform being legally prohibited from serving Americans. The trading concentrated on foreign-conflict markets that U.S. regulatory venues do not offer.

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