The prediction market juggernaut is under investigation in the country.
Updated Nov 22, 2024, 3:18 p.m. UTCPublished Nov 22, 2024, 2:41 p.m. UTC
Polymarket blocked French traders on Friday, weeks after reports that the country’s government was investigating the prediction markets juggernaut for gambling law compliance.
The ban was not reflected in Polymarket’s terms of service at press time, but on Friday a reporter using a VPN attempted to access the website from a French server and ran into a digital blockade.
Polymarket fell into the crosshairs of France’s national gaming authority, the ANJ, after a French trader placed massive bets on Donald Trump to win the 2024 U.S. Presidential election.
The fresh ban was first highlighted on social media by French crypto news site The Big Whale.
Polymarket did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Neither did the ANJ.
Danny Nelson
Danny is CoinDesk’s managing editor for Data & Tokens. He formerly ran investigations for the Tufts Daily. At CoinDesk, his beats include (but are not limited to): federal policy, regulation, securities law, exchanges, the Solana ecosystem, smart money doing dumb things, dumb money doing smart things and tungsten cubes. He owns BTC, ETH and SOL tokens, as well as the LinksDAO NFT.
