France blocked Polymarket after its transaction controls failed to stop 578,751 new French visitors

France’s gambling regulator ordered internet service providers to block access to Polymarket, the crypto prediction-market platform, escalating beyond a transaction geofence that it said had been circumvented in practice. The Autorité nationale des jeux published the order on July 17, arguing that Polymarket’s website promoted an unauthorized gambling offering even where the earlier restriction was meant to stop fina…