Polymarket

Polymarket, founded in 2020 in New York by Shayne Coplan, is the leading on-chain prediction market on Polygon, with $2B+ volume in the 2024 US election cycle. Users trade on politics, sports and culture outcomes using USDC, with transparent on-chain settlement via UMA. Backed by Founders Fund, Polymarket demonstrated product-market fit for information markets. The team moves fast, ships experiments and navigates event-driven load spikes. Polymarket is the world's premier decentralized prediction market platform, enabling users to trade on live real-world events, news, and probability markets with transparent on-chain settlement. Polymarket provides liquid, transparent probability markets where global participants express real-time consensus on economic, political, and cultural developments.