TNB Tech Minute: Federal Regulator Sues States Over Attempts to Regulate Prediction Markets
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The Wall Street Journal
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🗓️ 2 April 2026
⏱️ 3 minutes
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| 0:38.6 | A federal regulator is suing three states over their attempts to ban sports and election-related |
| 0:42.9 | betting on platforms like Calci and Polymarket. In civil complaints filed today, the Commodity |
| 0:49.1 | Futures Trading Commission argued that it has the sole authority to regulate contracts offered |
| 0:53.7 | by prediction markets. |
| 0:55.2 | It asked federal courts in Arizona, Illinois, and Connecticut to block those states from applying |
| 1:00.6 | their own gambling laws to prediction markets, which technically offer financial derivatives |
| 1:05.3 | similar to commodities futures. The move comes as the Trump administration ratchets up its |
| 1:10.7 | defense of prediction markets, |
| 1:12.3 | which let people bet on everything from Major League Baseball games to the reopening of the |
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