Overview
- Daily trading hit roughly $701.7–$702 million after back-to-back records, surpassing the previous $666.6 million high set one day earlier.
- Kalshi accounted for about $465.9 million, or roughly two-thirds of activity, while Polymarket and Opinion together processed around $100 million.
- A Tennessee federal judge temporarily blocked state gaming regulators from enforcing actions against Kalshi’s sports event contracts.
- Regulators and lawmakers pursued new limits, including New York’s proposed ORACLE Act and state actions in places such as Nevada and New Jersey, while Ukraine formally blocked Polymarket and the platform is restricted or blocked in 33 countries.
- A Polymarket wager that turned roughly $32,000 into more than $400,000 on Nicolás Maduro’s removal drew insider‑trading concerns from legal analysts, with no evidence presented of wrongdoing by the trader or the platform.