Overview
Connecticut widened its enforcement campaign on September 10, 2026. Nine months after its first cease-and-desist letters went to three platforms, the Department of Consumer Protection ordered nine more — Polymarket, Coinbase, Crypto.com, Robinhood, ProphetX, Novig, Webull, Gemini and Underdog Predict — to stop advertising and offering sports event contracts to Connecticut residents, and to let Connecticut customers withdraw their funds. It also issued nearly thirty investigative subpoenas, reaching payment processors, data and identity-verification vendors, sports-data suppliers, app stores and fifteen media organizations, and threatened civil penalties under the Connecticut Unfair Trade Practices Act and criminal penalties under the state’s gaming laws. The commissioner told WSHU that one recipient had already committed to comply, without naming it.
The response came within days. The United States and the CFTC moved for a preliminary injunction in their pending suit against the state the next day, and Underdog sued on September 15. (Recipients, subpoena scope and penalties from the Governor’s announcement; the orders themselves and any case numbers have not been obtained.)