Prediction Market’s First Insider Trading Case [Forbes]
DraftKings Inc. - Class A (DKNG)
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Source: Forbes
For the first time in U.S. history, a criminal case was filed alleging insider trading—not in stocks, not in options, but in a prediction market. The defendant was not a hedge fund manager or a corporate executive. He is a U.S. Army Master Sergeant with a top-secret clearance. According to prosecutors, Gannon Ken Van Dyke used classified information about a covert operation targeting Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro to place roughly $33,000 in bets on Polymarket, a crypto-based prediction platform. The wagers paid out more than $409,000. In this case, a government insider allegedly turned national security intelligence into a personal trading strategy. That case would be significant on its own. But just days later, the two largest prediction-market platforms, Kalshi and Polymarket , are rolling out a new product: leveraged “perpetual futures,” allowing users to place bets up to ten times their account balance on real-world events, with no expiration date. This first insider
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