Polymarket tìm cách quay trở lại thị trường Hoa Kỳ trong bối cảnh đàm phán với CFTC

The Huoxing Finance report states that the prediction market platform Polymarket has initiated negotiations with the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) to lift its four-year ban and seek to reopen its mainchain trading platform, built on the Polygon blockchain and settled in USDC, to U.S. users. In 2022, Polymarket’s parent company, Blockratize, was fined $1.4 million by the CFTC for operating an unregistered platform and was forced to block U.S. users. What makes this renewed negotiation unique is that, among the five CFTC commissioners, only Chairman Michael Selig currently remains in office—meaning this major decision will rest solely on his shoulders. Over the past year, Selig has consistently advocated for prediction markets: in February, he issued a statement warning against state governments attempting to interfere with regulation; in March, he released compliance guidelines and publicly solicited industry feedback; and this month, he stated that forcing prediction markets offshore would repeat the FTX-style collapse. However, the notion of “single-person decision-making” has sparked skepticism. Analysts warn that advancing this matter without committee consensus risks creating policy instability—should vacant seats be filled in the future, a new commission could immediately overturn any decision signed solely by Selig. If ultimately approved, Polymarket’s mainchain trading platform would become the first crypto-native platform纳入 the U.S. federal derivatives regulatory framework, while also ending the gray area in which users previously bypassed the ban via VPNs. Neither Polymarket nor the CFTC has responded to this matter thus far.