France blocked Polymarket after its transaction controls faltered to stop 578,751 new French visitors
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France's gambling regulator ordered internet service providers to block access to Polymarket, the crypto prediction-market platform, escalating beyond a transaction geofence that it said had been circumvented in practice.
Key facts
On May 26, 2026, the country's Directorate General for Gambling Regulation ordered the Polymarket and Kalshi websites to be blocked as an interim measure while it pursued proceedings regarding
In November 2024, the ANJ said it had approached Adventure One QSS Inc
The regulator said it blocked 1,290 URLs associated with illegal gambling in 2025 using this process
The ANJ's July 2026 notice framed the new order as the next step in that same case
Summary
01 France ordered ISPs to block Polymarket after saying its earlier transaction geofence was still being bypassed. 02 The ANJ cited 578,751 French visits in June 2026, arguing live odds kept promoting an unauthorized gambling offer. 03 The order hits Polymarket's website layer, not its Polygon contracts, leaving open how it will keep French users away. The Autorité nationale des jeux published the order on July 17, arguing that Polymarket's website promoted an unauthorized gambling offering even where the earlier restriction was meant to stop financial transactions from France.