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Business & Regulation·The Block· 2h ago

★MLB taps Polymarket as exclusive partner, teams with CFTC on betting integrity after last year’s scandal

Strategic Analysis // Ian Gross

"This partnership signals increasing institutional comfort with crypto-native platforms, potentially legitimizing prediction markets as a new asset class for speculative capital. The CFTC's involvement establishes a regulatory precedent, paving the way for broader integration of decentralized finance infrastructure into traditional sectors and influencing future market structure. This could unlock significant capital flows from sports betting and entertainment into compliant web3 applications."

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MLB, fresh off a betting scandal, has decided Polymarket is the answer to its integrity woes. Apparently, a prediction market platform is now the official arbiter of what constitutes "integrity risk" in sports. The CFTC's involvement simply adds another layer of regulatory theater to the whole affair.

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