CFTC, US soldier accused of illegal Polymarket bet spar over interpretation of prediction markets

A judge stayed the CFTC’s civil case against a soldier who allegedly used nonpublic information for a Polymarket bet, but the regulator is trying to weigh in on the criminal case.
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