Polymarket may have dramatically widened the scope of its testing as the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) finally published the self-certification filings that appeared to be holding up the exchange’s U.S. launch.
As reported by InGame soon after the shutdown began, Polymarket’s U.S. launch had been held up by the lapse in government appropriations.
The CFTC’s stance was that self-certifications were stayed, and therefore would not be valid. While Polymarket’s rules were approved and it had received an exemption to certain reporting requirements — key steps toward launch — Polymarket still needed to self-certify contracts before it could offer them to the general public.
Polymarket published self-certifications on its own website on the first day of the shutdown. They were then not listed on the CFTC website while the shutdown was ongoing.
