Polymarket retention outpaces most DeFi platforms, wallets and exchanges
Polymarket’s retention has outpaced the broader crypto ecosystem, showing stronger user persistence than most decentralized finance protocols, custodial wallets and centralized exchanges. This differentiated retention profile signals that Polymarket users behave differently from typical DeFi, wallet and exchange users and reframes how traders and treasuries should think about execution risk and customer lifetime when assessing […]
Polymarket hiring in-house trading team risks market integrity and user trust
Polymarket’s plan to staff an in-house trading desk to trade against customers raises immediate conflict-of-interest and market-integrity concerns, with measurable signs already visible in platform metrics and its regulatory record. The move intersects with prior findings that at times more than 60% of reported volume in certain markets was linked to wash trading, a figure […]
Polymarket opens U.S. app to waitlisted users after CFTC “green light”
Polymarket has begun granting access to U.S. users on its waiting list after receiving a regulatory clearance described as a “green light” from the CFTC. The move opens the platform’s U.S. application to a restricted cohort, a development that matters for traders and institutional treasuries monitoring regulated market access. The company announced the change as […]