MLB reaches agreements with Polymarket, federal commission
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Major League Baseball is entering the prediction market space with a pair of deals that commissioner Rob Manfred says are aimed at combating threats to the sport’s integrity. MLB on Thursday named Polymarket as the league’s official prediction market exchange and announced an information sharing agreement with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, the federal body that oversees the growing prediction market industry. Polymarket gains the rights to use MLB marks and logos on its platform as well as official data to help resolve markets, while the league gets more...