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Prediction market ETFs were supposed to launch. The SEC paused them. Here's why settlement is broken, who has jurisdiction, and who ends up unprotected.
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Prediction market ETFs cleared the standard SEC review window, then the regulator asked for more time. The real issue is structural: event contracts settle on interpreted outcomes, not objective data, which creates ambiguity the ETF wrapper concentrates rather than resolves. There's also a jurisdiction gap between the CFTC, which oversees the underlying platforms, and the SEC, which oversees the fund. Neither agency has worked out what happens when those frameworks collide during a contested resolution with retail money already in the fund. The delay is likely temporary, but the problems it surfaces are not.