U.S. special forces soldier arrested over Polymarket bets on Maduro raid

A U.S. special forces soldier, Gannon Ken Van Dyke, was arrested for using classified information about a military operation targeting Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro to profit from prediction market bets on Polymarket, earning over $400,000. The case marks the first use of the CFTC's 'Eddie Murphy Rule' to charge insider trading tied to nonpublic government information.