LaLiga North America announced a multi-year regional partnership with Polymarket covering the United States and Canada. The agreement gives Polymarket rights to run LaLiga-related prediction market activities and use league and club intellectual property, alongside broadcast and digital exposure.
The agreement gives Polymarket rights to offer league-related prediction market activities across two North American markets.
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Polymarket said a third-party provider was compromised in a security incident on 29 October, and that affected users would be reimbursed. The platform briefly suspended event-contract trading while addressing the incident, then resumed it; it did not confirm the total funds taken or number of affected accounts.
Polymarket said it would reimburse users whose funds were taken in a security breach on 29 October, after a third-party provider was compromised. The company confirmed the incident and said it had referred the matter to the police. In a post on X, the company's official profile said: "Qualquer pessoa que tenha sido afetada será totalmente ressarcida".
DraftKings launched its DraftKings Predictions app in December 2025 and introduced its DKeX contracts market on 26 June 2026, according to the report. The company developed DKeX using technology and authorisations obtained through its acquisition of Railbird Technologies; the report also says a US professional basketball league expanded its agreement with DraftKings on 26 October to cover prediction markets.
DraftKings is developing its own event-contracts platform and expanding its presence in prediction markets, where it competes with platforms including Polymarket and Kalshi. The Boston-based company, listed on Nasdaq, operates through the independent group DraftKings Inc., which also owns Golden Nugget Online Gaming, acquired in 2022, and the digital lottery platform Jackpocket. Golden Nugget Online Gaming forms part of the group's online casino business, while the physical Golden Nugget casinos were excluded from that acquisition.
Polymarket has expanded its partnership with Chainlink, naming it the official oracle for high-speed up/down markets, the companies said in a release dated 29 October 2026. Polymarket has launched 15-minute gold and silver markets, extending its offerings beyond crypto. Chainlink has powered more than $11bn in trading volume across Polymarket’s five- and 15-minute crypto price markets, according to the release.
Polymarket has deepened its strategic partnership with Chainlink, which the release describes as the standard for onchain finance, and named it the official oracle for high-speed up/down markets. The announcement, dated Oct. 29, 2026, also marks the arrival of 15-minute gold and silver markets on the platform, which is moving past crypto into equities, commodities and forex.
The NBA said it signed agreements with the CFTC, Kalshi and Polymarket to establish a framework for NBA-related prediction markets. The framework includes limits on permitted markets, restrictions on trading by league and team personnel, and information-sharing on investigations and suspicious trading.
Agreements with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Kalshi and Polymarket have been signed by the NBA, the league said. Under the framework, the league said, permissible markets are limited, league and team personnel are barred from trading, and information is shared on investigations and suspicious trading.
The NBA announced agreements with Kalshi and Polymarket to establish safeguards for NBA-related prediction markets in the United States. The league also signed a memorandum of understanding with the CFTC and expanded its DraftKings agreement to cover prediction markets and nationwide promotion; the arrangements exclude the WNBA.
The National Basketball Association unveiled a set of agreements on Monday aimed at creating a broad framework for prediction markets tied to its games. That framework includes a memorandum of understanding with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. Kalshi and Polymarket were named by the league as its preferred exchanges for such markets. The WNBA is not covered by the arrangement.