Odaily Planet Daily reports that Ukraine has blocked access to the prediction market platform Polymarket. The National Electronic Communications Regulatory Authority (NCEC) of Ukraine reportedly ordered the blockade under Resolution No. 695, citing the platform's lack of a license required to conduct gambling activities. Polymarket's domain name has been added to the Public Directory of Banned Internet Resources. Data shows that as of December 24, the platform had completed approximately 240 bets related to Ukraine, totaling over $270 million. There were also 120 active bets, totaling over $140 million. (Forbes)

According to Odaily Planet Daily, Polymarket's Chinese-language business representative, Jiajia, stated on the X platform that Polymarket is developing versions that support multiple languages, including Chinese.

Huoxun Finance News, January 12th - According to community reports, Polycule, a trading bot project based on Polymarket, appears to have been subjected to a Rugpull. Last Thursday, the Polycule team stated that they had suffered a hacker attack, affecting $230,000 in user funds, and that the bot was offline, with patches and reviews to be completed by the weekend. As of the latest update, affected users are still unable to withdraw their funds, and the team has not released any further updates.

According to data monitored by crypto KOLABKuai.Dong on January 12, Elon Musk, the CEO of Twitter (X platform), Tesla, SpaceX, and xAI, has publicly interacted with the prediction market Polymarket 25 times on the X platform, with as many as 9 times in the past month.