Why France Completely Blocked Polymarket Access After a $3.7 Billion Betting Surge

During the 2024 US presidential election cycle, a single French trader operating under the alias Fredi9999 reportedly risked over $45 million on Donald Trump's victory via Polymarket. Today, that same trader cannot even load the platform's homepage from a French IP address. The French gaming regulator, Autorité Nationale des Jeux (ANJ), has officially ordered domestic internet service providers to block all access to the decentralized prediction platform, completing a regulatory crackdown