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By Maheen Hernandez
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Revenue Past $1.2 Billion, New Hires from Wall Street and Silicon Valley. Polymarket's annualized revenue has surged past $1.2 billion since the April close.
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CFTC Investigation and the Classification Fight. Polymarket is under investigation by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission over allegations…
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Polymarket wants more money. The prediction markets platform is in talks to close a new funding round that would push its valuation above $20 billion — a big jump from where it…
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It's not the company's first time at this. Back in April 2026, Polymarket wrapped up a $1 billion raise anchored by a $600 million commitment from Intercontinental Exchange, the…
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Polymarket's annualized revenue has surged past $1.2 billion since the April close. That's a serious number for a platform that most people outside crypto circles barely knew…
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The company has been building out its team hard. Travis VanderZanden, who held senior roles at both Uber and Lyft, joined as chief growth officer.
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The U.S. platform launch is probably the biggest operational move the company has made. For the first time, domestic users can access Polymarket directly.
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Related: Polymarket Chases $20 Billion Valuation With $1 Billion Raise
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Polymarket is under investigation by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission over allegations tied to misleading social media promotions.
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But the CFTC probe isn't the only regulatory headache. There's a broader legal fight playing out over how prediction markets should be classified in the first place.
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The outcome of that classification fight will probably shape whether Polymarket's U.S. exchange ever reaches its full potential.
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Prediction markets have grown sharply across global user bases in recent years, driven partly by high-profile political events and sports outcomes that attracted new types of…
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More context: Polymarket Chases $20 Billion Valuation as Kalshi Pushes $40 Billion
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The April round's investor mix — an exchange operator, a quant fund, a growth equity firm, and crypto-native VCs — says something about how the market sees Polymarket's future.
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VanderZanden's hire fits that framing too. Growth at Uber and Lyft meant navigating regulatory fights in dozens of cities while scaling user numbers fast.
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