Strengthen CFTC oversight of prediction markets through additional guidance and regulation addressing customer protection, insider trading, and market manipulation concerns.

It is critical that the Commission provide additional guidance and regulation to address these concerns.

Slotkin and colleagues urged the CFTC to issue additional guidance and regulation for prediction markets to address customer protection risks and potential misconduct.

Slotkin, Klobuchar, Colleagues Raise Concerns on Prediction Markets  - Senator Elissa Slotkin
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The CFTC proposed amendments to Part 40 for event-contract derivatives, described as prediction markets, with comments due July 27, 2026. The proposal would create a framework for public-interest determinations and expressly analyzes market integrity, manipulation, retail-user protection, information leakage, and insider misuse risks.

Within the 2026-06-09 lookback window, the CFTC issued a concrete proposed rule that would strengthen prediction-market oversight, but it was still a proposal and not final as of 2026-07-08.

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Federal Register: Prediction Markets; Public Interest Determinations
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The CFTC proposed an alternate reporting framework for covered fully collateralized event contracts. The notice says the framework would provide uniform reporting, transparency, market-integrity information, settlement data, large-trader reporting, and near-real-time transaction-data dissemination.

This is a lookback-window regulatory proposal that would improve CFTC oversight data for prediction markets, but it remained open for comment and not final by 2026-07-08.

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Federal Register: Data Reporting Requirements for Certain Event Contracts
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CFTC staff advised designated contract markets that event-contract listings must satisfy core principles, including not being readily susceptible to manipulation, real-time trading surveillance, protections against abusive practices, and rules addressing misappropriation of confidential information, commonly known as insider trading.

The CFTC did issue additional guidance on prediction-market listing and oversight issues before the lookback window, directly addressing manipulation and insider-trading controls.

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CFTC Staff Advisory: Prediction Markets Advisory, Letter No. 26-08
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The CFTC filed a complaint alleging insider trading on Polymarket using classified nonpublic information. The agency described it as the first CFTC insider-trading charge involving event contracts and sought penalties, bans, disgorgement, restitution, and an injunction.

This enforcement action shows CFTC oversight being applied to prediction-market insider trading, but enforcement alone does not complete the broader promised regulatory framework.

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CFTC Charges U.S. Service Member with Insider Trading in Nicolás Maduro-Related Event Contracts
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The CFTC customer-education page says regulated prediction markets must comply with market-integrity rules, customer-fund protections for intermediated trades, exchange monitoring for abuses such as insider trading, and customer rights to transparent contract terms, account statements, access to funds, and complaint channels.

The agency has public guidance covering customer protections and oversight expectations for prediction markets, supporting partial delivery of the guidance component.

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CFTC: Understanding Prediction Markets and Event Contracts
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Business Insider reported that Sens. Todd Young and Elissa Slotkin introduced the Public Integrity in Financial Prediction Markets Act of 2026, which would require covered officials to disclose prediction-market trades over $250 and prohibit use of nonpublic information for profit. The article also noted there was no law on the books requiring such detailed disclosures.

Slotkin took concrete legislative action related to insider-trading and transparency concerns in prediction markets, but the evidence does not show enactment as of 2026-07-08.

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What bets are lawmakers and staffers making on prediction markets? They don't have to say.
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