France’s playing regulator, the Autorité Nationale des Jeux (ANJ), ordered web service suppliers to dam Polymarket on July 16, treating the prediction market as an unlawful playing website reasonably than a monetary buying and selling venue.
The ANJ mentioned earlier restrictions had did not maintain French customers off the platform. Polymarket drew 578,751 visits from 205,057 distinctive guests in France in June, in response to Similarweb knowledge cited by the regulator, regardless of a ban on monetary transactions in place since November 2024. A VPN was sufficient to bypass it.
The homepage remained accessible, permitting customers to view dwell markets and odds. The ANJ mentioned the real-time odds show promoted an unauthorized playing service.
“The site’s homepage, which dynamically displays real-time odds for various events open to betting, thus serves as a major channel for disseminating and promoting Polymarket’s offerings, even though the site’s operations are not authorized in France,” the regulator wrote. Fines can attain 100,000 euros ($114,380).
Polymarket didn’t instantly reply to a remark from CoinDesk.
The ANJ additionally cited a grievance from France’s climate service, Météo-France, over a tampered temperature sensor tied to weather-based bets, prompting the Paris prosecutor’s cybercrime unit to open an investigation on Could 4.
