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Spain has not licensed prediction betting, but legal experts say existing sports betting rules could already cover it, even as the DGOJ works to block Polymarket and Kalshi.
A King County judge has granted Washington a preliminary injunction against Kalshi, ruling the prediction market operator likely ran an illegal gambling operation and rejecting its federal preemption defense.
Kalshi and Polymarket posted record trading volumes during the 2026 World Cup, with US prediction markets hitting 20 billion dollars in notional volume in just 12 days.
Ireland's GRAI has warned Polymarket and Kalshi it will seek High Court blocking orders over unlicensed access for Irish users, joining France, Italy and Spain in a growing European crackdown on prediction markets.
A Manhattan federal judge denied Kalshi's emergency injunction for the second time in three weeks on July 28, 2026, even as a Minnesota court blocked that state's prediction market ban on the same day. The diverging rulings deepen a national legal split expected to reach the Supreme Court.
A bipartisan federal bill would require sportsbooks and prediction markets to verify bettors' ages with facial recognition scans, and critics say key details are missing.
The American Gaming Association and Indian Gaming Association are pushing Congress to ban sports event contracts at a July 21 House hearing on prediction markets like Kalshi and Polymarket.
A House Agriculture subcommittee will examine customer protections and market integrity in sports event prediction markets on July 21, 2026. Here is who is testifying, what is at stake, and why the CFTC and the states are on a collision course.
Underdog has gone fully in-house with a CFTC-regulated prediction market exchange, becoming the first sports company to hold the complete DCM, DCO and FCM license stack. Here is what changed and why it matters.
Trump Media will sell Wall Street millisecond access to market-moving Truth Social posts from August 1, 2026, reviving fairness questions for prediction markets like Kalshi and Polymarket.
A White House teleprompter operator allegedly made nearly $100,000 betting on the words Donald Trump would say, using Kalshi mention markets. Here is what happened and why the CFTC probe is a defining test for prediction markets.
The CFTC is now suing states to defend Kalshi, while judges in Michigan, New York and Washington rule the other way. Here is the full state-by-state map of the 2026 prediction market legal war.