Polymarket acquired the holding of the holding company behind QCX LLC and QC Clearing LLC for $ 112 million, with a Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) regulated Exchange and Clearinghouse.
According to the Announcement of July 21The movement will enable the blockchain prediction location to serve American customers in accordance with the federal regulations.
Regulating reset precedes Deal
The purchase arrives days after federal researchers Closed criminal and civil questions In Polymarket’s earlier American activity. The Ministry of Justice and the CFTC sent letters this month, and terminated probes that started after a January 2022 settlement required the platform to block American users.
Agents escalated the business in November and plundered founder Shayne Coplan’s New York apartment when the site processed around $ 2.6 billion in gambling from the election season. Coplan later said that polymarket was ‘collaborated and involved’ with the authorities and ‘was made available from misconduct’.
QCEX founder Sergei DobroVolkskii spent four years securing the designated contract market and derivatives Clearing Organization Licensions.
Coplan called the acquisition ‘the foundation to bring polymarket home’, saying that domestic access traders leaves the current events in the price ‘with regulatory clarity and trust’.
DobroVolkskii said that combining the QCEX licenses with the ordering flow of polymarket “can change the way people have access and understand information.”
Market share and product size
Polymarket processed around $ 6 billion in volume in the first half of 2025 and announced an information partnership last month.
The company operates automated markets on Polygon, where traders set stabilecoins about binary results, ranging from elections to sport. QCEX’s licenses licensed contracts on economic indicators, financial benchmarks and event derivatives, provided that they comply with the public interest tests of the CFTC.
Polymarket stated that it will collaborate with regulators to coordinate existing markets to conforming rules before the onboarding is opened for American accounts.
The company did not give a launch date, but stated that the integration of QCEX technology and clearing functions is underway.
As soon as live, American users will post margin and payments via QC -Clearing, which means that prediction contracts are brought under the same Safeguard regime that controls the raw materials futures.
Polymarket said that the move adjusts its worldwide user experience with our supervision and positions the location for further institutional participation.