US senators urge CFTC to explicitly ban prediction markets involving death.

Six US Democratic senators wrote a letter to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission expressing strong concerns about prediction market contracts that incentivize physical harm or death, calling them a serious national security risk. The letter specifically mentioned three controversial contracts involving Polymarket: whether a NASA spacecraft will explode, when Venezuelan leader Maduro will be forcibly abducted by the Trump administration, and whether a town in Ukraine will be occupied by Russian forces.