SiaPredict DailySeptember 5, 2026
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The NFL renewed pressure on Kalshi and Polymarket to pull manipulation-prone contract categories ahead of kickoff, a reminder that league relations remain a live constraint on sports-contract menus independent of the state-preemption litigation working through the courts. Crypto.com's CDNA prediction-markets unit lost another senior executive, extending a leadership churn that has run since November even as the unit keeps landing distribution deals. Kalshi separately closed out a disciplinary case against a North Carolina congressional candidate who traded on her own race, one more data point in the platforms' effort to police politically exposed traders.
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NFL renews demand that Kalshi and Polymarket remove "objectionable" event contracts
NFL Chief Compliance Officer Sabrina Perel sent Kalshi and Polymarket a September 4 letter reiterating a March warning to remove four categories of contracts: those manipulable by a single participant, such as kicker misses or broadcast mentions, player and fan-safety markets like injuries and misconduct, officiating-outcome contracts covering penalty counts and replay results, and bets on outcomes already knowable to insiders such as roster moves and draft picks. The letter called the categories' continued availability "deeply concerning" months after the first warning and copied CFTC Chairman Michael Selig, leaving the NFL as the one major US league still withholding the formal partnership MLB and the NHL have already extended to prediction-market operators.
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Crypto.com's CDNA loses another senior executive as leadership churn continues
CDNA (Crypto.com Derivatives North America) chief technology officer Steve Goodsell announced his departure, citing a fresh cost-cutting round at parent Crypto.com, following the exits of CEO Travis McGhee, chief compliance and regulatory officer Kevin Dan, and chief risk officer Wen Jiang since last November. The exodus continues even as the unit keeps winning distribution deals, including Prospect Markets' definitive agreement and its FanDuel Predicts supply role, leaving execution risk on those agreements as much a question as the deals themselves for a compliance and technology bench that has turned over repeatedly this year.
Sportico - 3IndustryCatch-up
Kalshi bans GOP House candidate Laurie Buckhout for three years over bets on her own race
Kalshi disclosed a three-year trading ban and a $2,589.96 fine against North Carolina congressional candidate Laurie Buckhout after finding she traded contracts tied to her own election, part of a broader national inquiry into politicians and political insiders that has already produced Kalshi's first-ever lifetime ban, against George Santos. Buckhout cooperated with the inquiry and called the trades "a dumb mistake," but the case is another concrete example compliance teams can point to on how exchange-level surveillance is catching politically exposed persons trading on outcomes they can influence, independent of any CFTC enforcement action.
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