Polymarket has no POLY token. So why is it still pursuing a POLY trademark?
Polymarket's help center says it has announced no airdrop and no token launch, and that all rewards are paid in pUSD. Meanwhile a February application to trademark "POLY" for crypto token services is still alive, with a reply filed on November 2.
Polymarket adds 15-minute gold and silver bets. One early window traded just $100
Polymarket has added 15-minute and one-hour Up or Down markets on gold and silver, settled by Chainlink price streams. The format began with crypto, where Chainlink says it has passed $9 billion in volume, but the metal markets start almost empty.
Prediction markets explained: how Kalshi and Polymarket work, and the real risks
A prediction market lets people trade contracts that pay $1 if an event happens and $0 if it does not, so prices read like odds. Kalshi is a CFTC-regulated US exchange; most Polymarket markets settle on chain through the UMA oracle.
Polymarket repaid $3.9 million after a vendor's script turned on its users. What broke?
A hijacked performance-monitoring script on polymarket.com used logged-in sessions to sell positions and pull funds. Polymarket's postmortem says 95% of affected wallets are now fully refunded, and it paid $1.2 million more for losses during its trading pause.
Polymarket repays $3.9 million after a hacked vendor script hits it for the second time
On October 29, a compromised outside script on polymarket.com used logged-in sessions to sell positions and drain 726 wallets. Polymarket paused trading, repaid 689 of them in full within a day, and is covering pause losses too. It was the second vendor script attack in four months.
Polymarket US quits sports contracts in Michigan. Open bets must close by November 25
After losing two bids in federal court, Polymarket's US arm agreed to stop selling new sports event contracts to Michigan residents. It is the fourth big platform, after Coinbase, Robinhood and Kalshi, that the state has halted.