Gate News update, April 12, Robinhood is taking a cautious approach in its prediction markets business. Its UK president, Jordan Sinclair, said that due to heightened concern about market abuse and insider trading, Robinhood has clearly excluded certain prediction market contracts, especially products in the “mention the market” category. These contracts allow traders to place bets on specific words to be used in a particular speech or briefing; Robinhood believes such products are prone to manipulation risk and do not serve customers’ interests. Sinclair emphasized that, unlike some platforms that are unregulated or offer non-compliant contracts, Robinhood only chooses to provide proper, regulated event contracts.
Multiple recent incidents have intensified the industry’s concerns about insider trading in prediction markets. For example, on a prediction market platform in the period before the U.S. attacked Iran, there were unusually accurate large bets, and in Israel, a person was indicted for using confidential information to bet on a military action on a platform. To avoid such risks, Robinhood chose to partner with a prediction market platform regulated in the United States. On Robinhood, users must complete identity verification to place compliant bets on the outcomes of events such as sports, elections, and financial matters, while some competing platforms enable anonymous trading through cryptocurrency wallets, and regulatory standards differ significantly.
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