{"id":594041,"date":"2026-05-04T20:53:29","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T20:53:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/?p=811742"},"modified":"2026-05-04T20:53:29","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T20:53:29","slug":"nhl-and-mlb-sign-with-polymarket-and-kalshi-as-their-unions-ask-cftc-to-intervene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/05\/04\/nhl-and-mlb-sign-with-polymarket-and-kalshi-as-their-unions-ask-cftc-to-intervene\/","title":{"rendered":"NHL and MLB Sign With Polymarket and Kalshi as Their Unions Ask CFTC to Intervene"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/mlb-768x432.png\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-post-image\" alt=\"MLB Names Polymarket as Official Prediction Market Partner\" style=\"float:left;margin:0 15px 15px 0\" \/>A coalition of the largest US professional sports player unions has asked the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) to prohibit several categories of sports event contracts at platforms like Kalshi and Polymarket, putting the unions in direct opposition to the leagues that have signed commercial deals with the same platforms. Key Takeaways: Player unions for [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A coalition of the largest US professional sports player unions has asked the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) to prohibit several categories of sports event contracts at platforms like Kalshi and Polymarket, putting the unions in direct opposition to the leagues that have signed commercial deals with the same platforms. Key Takeaways: Player unions for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":594042,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-594041","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bitcoin"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594041","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=594041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594041\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/594042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=594041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=594041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=594041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}