French embargo for forecast market Polymarket

On 18 July, the French regulatory agency ANJ stated on 17 July that the Polymucket web page would be blocked in France, after it had banned financial transactions to the site in November 2024. ANJ states that the continued availability of the site (renewing the rate of compensation for different events in real time) constitutes an advertisement. Despite the ban on French accounts, the number of visits to the Polymarket website from French Internet addresses has been increasing, reaching 578,751 in June。