polymarket-prediction-market

Understand Polymarket's prediction markets—binary event contracts, CLOB pricing, order books, conditional tokens, and API integration. Polymarket operates as a decentralized prediction market on Polygon using USDC: Key fields in Polymarket market data: Polymarket uses a Central Limit Order Book (CLOB) : Polymarket uses EIP-712 signatures for authentication: Connect to wss://ws-subscriptions-clob.polymarket.com/ws/ for: Polymarket hosts various sports and esports betting markets. Understanding the naming conventions and market structures is critical for matching markets across platforms. Polymarket sports markets typically follow these patterns: When matching markets across platforms, watch for these variations: To find sports markets programmatically: For cross-platform arbitrage, use this matching approach: Normalize team/player names Extract key entities Match by similarity Verify market type When answering questions about Polymarket: For cross-platform arbitrage with Kalshi: Buy opposing outcomes across platforms when total cost < $1.00: "The YES token trading at $0.72 means the market collectively estimates a 72% probability of this outcome occurring." "Your limit order to buy 100 YES shares at $0.65 will sit in the order book until someone sells at that price or lower." "If Team Liquid wins, your YES tokens settle at $1.00 each. If they lose, those tokens become...