$NEIRO Here’s the latest on the Ukraine–Polymarket situation and why Ukrainian authorities have blocked access to the platform:

What happened?

🔹 Ukraine has officially blocked access to the crypto prediction market Polymarket inside the country.

Authorities directed internet service providers to restrict the domain polymarket.com under a regulatory resolution issued on December 10, 2025.

🔹 The platform was added to Ukraine’s public registry of blocked online resources because officials consider its operations to be unlicensed gambling under Ukrainian law.

🔹 Many users in Ukraine now can’t access the site, though enforcement may still be inconsistent depending on the internet provider.

Why Ukraine took action

📍 Classification as gambling:

Polymarket lets users buy and sell positions tied to the outcomes of events — including geopolitical and war-related events — with prices reflecting implied probabilities. Ukrainian regulators say this is, in effect, online gambling, and that the platform lacks the required domestic license.

📍 War-related bets draw special scrutiny:

A large volume of bets on the Russia–Ukraine conflict — reportedly hundreds of markets with hundreds of millions of dollars wagered — intensified concerns in Kyiv about the ethics and legality of betting on real-world warfare outcomes.

🎯 Both the gambling classification and war-betting controversies helped spur the ban.

Context: broader regulatory pressure

⚖️ Ukraine isn’t alone. Other countries — including France, Germany, the UK, Poland, Singapore, Thailand and more — have also restricted Polymarket access on similar grounds of unlicensed gambling or financial regulation issues.

🇺🇸 Separately, in the U.S., Polymarket has been navigating regulatory frameworks and received oversight from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) for certain event contracts, even as debates continue over prediction markets and potential insider trading safeguards.