Polymarket, the crypto-native prediction market, has added assist for bitcoin deposits, giving customers a direct approach to fund their accounts with BTC alongside different current crypto choices.
The transfer coincides with bitcoin’s current rally to all-time highs above $126,000, presently buying and selling round $124,300, and displays rising demand for crypto-native funding choices on prediction platforms.
Polymarket has taken the world by storm over the previous two years, rising as the biggest prediction market the place customers commerce shares tied to the outcomes of real-world occasions — basically betting on what the long run holds.
On Polymarket, merchants are bullish concerning the bitcoin worth. About 83% of contributors now predict bitcoin will hit $130,000 this 12 months, whereas 52% and 35% are betting on $140,000 and $150,000, respectively. Complete long-term betting quantity has exceeded $30.6 million.
Polymarket additionally accepts different crypto and stablecoins like USDC, USDT, Ethereum, Polygon, and Solana.
NYSE guardian eyes main funding
Including a layer of institutional intrigue, the Intercontinental Trade (ICE), proprietor of the New York Inventory Trade, is reportedly contemplating a $2 billion funding in Polymarket. If accomplished, the deal might worth the platform between $8 billion and $10 billion, in line with The Wall Road Journal.
Shayne Coplan, the 27-year-old founding father of Polymarket, has become the youngest self-made billionaire after this funding, per Bloomberg. Only a few years in the past, Coplan was a NYU dropout constructing Polymarket from his lavatory after turning into fascinated by the potential of prediction markets.
Polymarket has already attracted notable traders, together with 1789 Capital, backed by Donald Trump Jr., and bought derivatives alternate QCEX for $112 million, gaining a U.S. CFTC license within the course of.
Polymarket’s growth comes after navigating important regulatory hurdles. In 2022, the CFTC fined the platform $1.4 million for unregistered actions, and the Division of Justice performed an investigation that was closed in 2025.
Based in 2020, Polymarket gained traction through the 2024 U.S. presidential elections and has since built-in Chainlink oracles for price-focused contracts, launched earnings markets with U.S. clearance, and competes with regulated rivals like Kalshi.