{"id":626434,"date":"2026-07-08T20:53:03","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T20:53:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/?p=829671"},"modified":"2026-07-08T20:53:03","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T20:53:03","slug":"esma-says-eu-retail-ban-covers-many-prediction-markets-with-mica-awaiting-the-tokenized-ones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/07\/08\/esma-says-eu-retail-ban-covers-many-prediction-markets-with-mica-awaiting-the-tokenized-ones\/","title":{"rendered":"ESMA Says EU Retail Ban Covers Many Prediction Markets, With MiCA Awaiting the Tokenized Ones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/esma-says-the-eu-retail-ban-already-covers-many-prediction-market-contracts-with-mica-awaiting-the-tokenized-ones-768x432.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-post-image\" alt=\"ESMA Says the EU Retail Ban Already Covers Many Prediction-Market Contracts, With MiCA Awaiting the Tokenized Ones\" style=\"float:left;margin:0 15px 15px 0\" \/>Europe\u2019s top securities regulator has clarified that many prediction-market event contracts already fall under the EU\u2019s existing retail ban on binary options \u2013 meaning the restriction is live law, not a proposed rule \u2013 while contracts issued as blockchain tokens may instead be caught by the bloc\u2019s crypto framework. The statement leaves platforms such as [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Europe\u2019s top securities regulator has clarified that many prediction-market event contracts already fall under the EU\u2019s existing retail ban on binary options \u2013 meaning the restriction is live law, not a proposed rule \u2013 while contracts issued as blockchain tokens may instead be caught by the bloc\u2019s crypto framework. The statement leaves platforms such as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":626435,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-626434","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\/626434","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=626434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626434\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/626435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=626434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=626434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=626434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}