Polymarket Pauses Trading After Users Report Drained Accounts
Polymarket, the crypto-based prediction market, briefly stopped new trading on Thursday after users reported that funds were being withdrawn from their accounts without permission. The platfo
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October 30, 2026
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Polymarket, the crypto-based prediction market, briefly stopped new trading on Thursday after users reported that funds were being withdrawn from their accounts without permission.
The platform put its exchange into cancel-only mode, which let traders cancel existing orders but not place new ones. It also paused relayer actions, the service that submits users’ signed transactions to the blockchain.
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