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Polymarket blocked in India: What the prediction market does, why it was banned and what went wrong
· LiveMint Companies
X has withheld Polymarket’s official account in India following a legal demand, extending restrictions on the prediction-market platform.
The analysis
Because the driver here is macro rather than company-specific, the read-through is to index-level positioning rather than to any single name — correlations tend to rise when the whole market faces the same signal.
Market context
- This is a market-wide development — its reach goes beyond any single stock.