Regulations
By Jean-Luc Maracon
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Blockchain.com Brings Polymarket Inside Its App. Blockchain.com didn't wait for regulators. The company folded Polymarket directly into its…
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Jump Trading Builds Out Its Prediction Market Team. Jump Trading is hiring. Aggressively. The firm has significantly grown the headcount dedicated to…
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Malta wants to be first. First EU country with a standalone regulatory framework for prediction markets — not shoehorned under gambling law, not squeezed into financial services…
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Blockchain.com didn't wait for regulators. The company folded Polymarket directly into its brokerage app, letting users trade prediction market contracts right next to their…
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That's a meaningful shift. Prediction markets have spent years operating at the edge of mainstream finance, accessible mostly to people willing to seek them out.
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Jump Trading is hiring. Aggressively. The firm has significantly grown the headcount dedicated to prediction markets, and the talent profile it's chasing is deliberately…
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The firm's expansion into this space is ongoing — no finish line announced, just a sustained recruitment drive into a growing segment they clearly think has legs.
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And then there's the incident that nobody in the prediction market world really wanted to see.
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It's a bad look for a sector that's been working hard to position itself as a legitimate financial tool rather than a gray-market curiosity.
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Whether it derails anything is unclear yet. The CFTC referral is on record. The alleged profits were $100,000.
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Back in Malta, the regulatory proposal still needs formal legislative drafting before it becomes law. Schembri confirmed active development, but no timeline has been set publicly.
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Blockchain.com's Polymarket integration is live. Jump Trading's hiring push is ongoing. The CFTC has the Kalshi referral on its desk.
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