Key Summary

France's gambling regulator ANJ has directed the country's internet service providers to block access to Polymarket, classifying its prediction markets as illegal gambling and flagging market-manipulation risks. The move adds to a growing European regulatory overhang on crypto-native prediction platforms, threatening user growth and on-chain volumes that have made Polymarket a flagship use case on Polygon rails. Watch whether other EU regulators follow with similar blocks and whether Polymarket pursues licensing, which would determine if this stays a single-market setback or becomes a bloc-wide access problem.