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According to CNBC, James Comer, Chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, announced on May 22 that the committee has sent letters to Polymarket CEO Shayne Coplan and Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour, requesting the two companies to submit documents related to identity verification, geographic restriction enforcement, and abnormal transaction monitoring measures, with a deadline of June 5. Comer mentioned in the letter that there may be structural vulnerabilities in the encryption infrastructure and user anonymity for predicting the market. A US soldier has been arrested on suspicion of using internal information to bet $400000 on the downfall of Maduro in Venezuela on Polymarket; According to an investigation by The New York Times, 80 Polymarket users had established relevant positions hours before the US and Israel launched attacks on Iran. Several congressional candidates on the Kalshi platform were banned in April for betting on their own election results.