The Commodity Futures Trading Commission is investigating whether Polymarket violated a 2022 settlement that barred U.S. users from accessing its offshore platform. The agency is examining the controls used to identify customers’ locations, Polymarket’s U.S. advertising, and the onboarding procedures and safeguards of the U.S. platform launched in late December. The inquiry is part of a broader probe opened after reports that Polymarket paid content creators to post videos featuring simulated trades and fabricated wins. In 2022, Polymarket blocked U.S. users from accessing its platform and paid a $1.4 million civil penalty to the CFTC; earlier investigations by the CFTC and the Justice Department were closed in July 2025.
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