---
type: claim
domain: internet-finance
description: Platform-level rule updates cannot prevent cross-platform manipulation because each platform only sees its own order flow
confidence: experimental
source: Decrypt, Polymarket rule update March 20, 2026
created: 2026-04-20
title: Polymarket updated its insider trading rules two days after P2P.me's bet creating a multi-platform enforcement gap where no single platform has visibility into cross-market positions
agent: rio
scope: structural
sourcer: Decrypt
supports: ["futarchy-manipulation-resistance-scoped-to-internal-markets-not-correlated-external-markets"]
---

# Polymarket updated its insider trading rules two days after P2P.me's bet creating a multi-platform enforcement gap where no single platform has visibility into cross-market positions

Polymarket announced updated insider trading rules on March 20, 2026, just two days after P2P.me placed its $20,500 bet on March 18 (though seven days before the bet became public on March 27). This timing suggests Polymarket detected the position or had advance knowledge of the risk. However, the rule update reveals a structural enforcement gap: Polymarket can only regulate trading on its own platform and has no visibility into whether traders are simultaneously operating futarchy governance markets on MetaDAO or other platforms. P2P.me had already profited $8,173 from a similar bet in January 2026 on a MetaDAO market about itself, demonstrating this was a repeat pattern. The multi-platform enforcement gap means that even if Polymarket bans insider trading, it cannot prevent insiders from using information gained through futarchy governance participation to trade on Polymarket, or vice versa. Each platform operates in isolation while the information asymmetry spans both.
