Polymarket
The on-chain venue: USDC collateral, resolution by oracle, and how its order book behaves in practice.
Polymarket · 3 min readWhat Polymarket Is, and How On-Chain Changes ItPolymarket settles event contracts on a blockchain with stablecoin collateral. Here is what that architecture changes about pricing, resolution and risk.
Polymarket · 3 min readHow Polymarket Resolves a MarketAn optimistic oracle proposes an answer, a window opens for challenges, and a dispute process exists behind it. What each stage means for a position you hold.
Polymarket · 3 min readWhen Resolution Is Disputed, and What It TeachesMost markets resolve quietly. The contested ones follow recognisable patterns, and those patterns tell you which questions to be careful with.
Polymarket · 3 min readStablecoin Collateral and What Self-Custody Means HerePositions are backed by a dollar-pegged stablecoin held in a contract. What that protects you from, what it does not, and the security rules that follow.
Polymarket · 3 min readHow Polymarket's Order Book Actually WorksMatching happens off-chain and settlement happens on-chain. What that hybrid means for spreads, fills, latency and the data you can read from outside.
Polymarket · 3 min readFees, Gas and the Real Cost of Trading On-ChainTrading fees are only part of it. Network costs, bridging, spreads and capital lockup all take a share, and some of them are easy to miss entirely.
Polymarket · 3 min readThe Life of a Polymarket MarketListing, trading, close, proposal, challenge, redemption. Each stage changes what the price means and how long your capital stays committed.
Polymarket · 3 min readWorking With Polymarket's Public Market DataWhat public endpoints expose about markets, books and history, plus the on-chain data underneath, and how to use both without fooling yourself.
Polymarket · 3 min readMulti-Outcome Markets and Why They Break Naive AnalysisA question with six possible answers is not six independent markets. What the outcome set implies, why the prices sum to about one, and what that enables.
Polymarket · 3 min readThings That Surprise People on PolymarketWording that decides outcomes, capital stuck after the event is over, and the security rules that are absolute. The catch-out list in one place.