{"id":571189,"date":"2026-03-19T16:53:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T16:53:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/03\/19\/major-league-baseball-inks-deals-with-us-regulator-polymarket\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T16:53:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T16:53:13","slug":"major-league-baseball-inks-deals-with-us-regulator-polymarket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/03\/19\/major-league-baseball-inks-deals-with-us-regulator-polymarket\/","title":{"rendered":"Major League Baseball inks deals with US regulator, Polymarket"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The memorandum of understanding with CFTC Chair Michael Selig comes as many US state authorities are cracking down on sports event contracts on prediction markets.<\/p>\n

Major League Baseball (MLB) announced that it had signed an \u201cintegrity protection\u201d agreement with the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) as it separately inked a deal with prediction markets platform Polymarket.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In a Thursday announcement, MLB said that its commissioner, Robert Manfred, signed<\/a> a memorandum of understanding with CFTC Chair Michael Selig following the league\u2019s request for \u201cstrong integrity protections in the rapidly evolving prediction market space.\u201d In a separate deal, the league said it had reached an agreement for predictions market platform Polymarket to be its Official Prediction Market Exchange.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe new agreements that we formed with Polymarket and the CFTC are imperative steps in proactively managing the new and rapidly growing prediction market space,\u201d said Manfred.<\/p>\n

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The memorandum of understanding with CFTC Chair Michael Selig comes as many US state authorities are cracking down on sports event contracts on prediction markets. Major League Baseball (MLB) announced that it had signed an \u201cintegrity protection\u201d agreement with the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) as it separately inked a deal with prediction markets […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":571190,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-571189","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-blockchain"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=571189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571189\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/571190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=571189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=571189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=571189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}