Congress wants to ban lawmakers from crypto prediction markets
Congress is moving to ban lawmakers from crypto prediction markets like Polymarket and Kalshi over insider trading. Why it’s happening and why platforms agree.
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Grayscale Chief Legal Officer Craig Salm has suggested that Zcash’s own shielded user base may be offering a more meaningful signal on exploit risk than external prediction markets. His comments came after Polymarket opened a market on whether Zcash’s Orchard pool vulnerability, publicized on June 4, is ultimately confirmed to have been exploited on mainnet. […]
Read full articleCongress is moving to ban lawmakers from crypto prediction markets like Polymarket and Kalshi over insider trading. Why it’s happening and why platforms agree.
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