US Special Forces Soldier Arrested for Insider Trading on Polymarket
A US special forces soldier has been arrested for allegedly using classified information to make $400K on Polymarket bets involving the capture of Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro. This marks the first US arrest for insider trading on a prediction market. Reuters reports that the soldier is accused of breaching national security, while Wired notes that this incident highlights growing concerns about insider trading on crypto platforms.
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