Polkamarkets is a DeFi-Powered Prediction Market built for cross-chain information exchange and trading, where users take positions on outcomes of real world events–in a decentralized and interoperable platform on Polkadot.

Users can monetise their forecasts of future outcomes and events within an interoperable and decentralized infrastructure, where your beliefs become assets with financial value traded openly on the market.

Buy & Sell fractions of event outcomes, or even create your own events where others can take their own positions. And Participate & Provide Liquidity to Earn.

More than just a prediction market, Polkamarkets will have important entertainment features. These include NFT-based gamification, live streaming integration for in-play positions on Esports & Sports, and daily crypto price markets. Live chats and virtual events in online communities will also form a key entertainment value-add to our platform.

Launched on 28/01/2021, by a fully remote team based in Bali, London and Lisbon, Polkamarkets aims to solve problems in the Prediction Markets industry such as lack of liquidity & markets, lack of traders, and duplicate or confusing markets by incentivising liquidity providers and traders to facilitate & take large positions, while a system for curation and resolution ensures efficient and trustworthy markets.

$POLK is the native utility token that is used for:

The token is used to coordinate incentives to make network effects to solve the problems that plague prediction markets such as low volumes, low liquidity, and low daily active use. Polkamarkets has designed $POLK for the following key DeFi and gamification use-cases:

● Prediction Markets Creation: $POLK is required for users to open new markets on Polkamarkets. If you want to know the future and receive the wisdom of the crowd, you must use $POLK. ● Mining: Users and LPs earn $POLK by making forecasts on the platform, and by providing liquidity to Polkamarkets. ● Direct Fees for Liquidity Providers (LPs): All markets on Polkamarkets pay a 0.3% trading fee. 2/3 of all trading fees (0.2%) on Polkamarkets will be paid to LPs in the token (ETH / DOT for example) in which they were collected. The remaining 1/3 of fees (0.1%) are used to auto-buy $POLK via smart contract on decentralised exchanges. ● Yield Farming: The 1/3 of all trading fees (0.1%) on Polkamarkets will be used to purchase $POLK on DEXs, to be paid out to LPs for their service of providing liquidity. ● Gamification: Achieving higher and higher tiers of earned $POLK will unlock exclusive NFTs, access to bigger markets, and special features.

Polkamarkets MVP core features include:

● Take positions on events in real time in Esports, Sports, Crypto Prices, Politics, & More. ● Promotions and Giveaways ● Liquidity Provisioning and Rewards for LPs ● Mine $POLK by forecasting on Polkamarkets ● Mine $POLK by providing liquidity to Polkamarkets ● Yield Farm $POLK

Polkamarkets launched its token $POLK on February 24, 2021 with 100 million $POLK tokens created at genesis (subject to vesting) and an initial market cap of $610,000 USD. Strategic Sale is vested 25% on TGE, then 25% monthly over the next 3 months. Public tokens are fully unlocked. For liquidity tokens, 10% on TGE, 10% per month over 9 months. On Marketing tokens, 10% on TGE, 5% per month over 18 months. Team & Foundational tokens are fully locked for one year, then vested 25% quarterly. As for the token distribution, 28% is for Strategic and public sales. Marketing is reserved for awareness, partnerships and exchange listings. Liquidity Fund will provide funds for Uniswap and other exchanges’ liquidity. Team and Advisors with 10% of the total token distribution, Foundational Reserve with the remaining 20%.

Polkamarkets is managed by Ricardo Marques (CEO and Co-Founder) and Francisco Lourenço (CMO and Co-Founder). Ricardo is a serial entrepreneur with several ventures launched in the prediction market space. He has over a decade of experience as a full-stack developer and software engineer. Francisco is a marketing leader with more than 10 years experience in disrupting big companies' go-to market strategies, specializing in digital, E-commerce and social campaigns.

The two met while Ricardo was head of product at Tradiio, a Predictions Markets platform for the music industry in 2015. Francisco was one of the most avid users on the platform as also an enthusiast of general Prediction Markets, Gamification strategies on the enterprise level and in crypto and blockchain.

As for the Advisors side, the team is working with Henrique Caiano (Product Advisor) who has more than 10 years of experience creating products in the tech and blockchain worlds and is a serial entrepreneur and product owner for multiple SaaS and consumer products. Also on the technical side, Rui Teixeira (Tech Advisor) who is the CEO and Co-Founder of BEPRO.Network, a blockchain-based SaaS empowering businesses and entrepreneurs to launch Esports gaming platforms. Rui is a serial entrepreneur and has +5 years experience with blockchain product development.

$POLK will be first sold on the Polkastarter IDO platform, and later be made available for trading on decentralized exchange Uniswap.

The all-time high of POLK was 0 USD on 1970-01-01, from which the coin is now down 0%. The all-time high price of Polkamarkets (POLK) is 0. The current price of POLK is down 0% from its all-time high.

As of , there is currently 89.66M POLK in circulation. POLK has a maximum supply of 100.00M.

The current market cap of POLK is 1.36M. It is calculated by multiplying the current supply of POLK by its real-time market price of 0.015142892369.

The all-time low of POLK was 0 , from which the coin is now up 0%. The all-time low price of Polkamarkets (POLK) is 0. The current price of POLK is up 0% from its all-time low.

Polkamarkets (POLK) has a market capitalization of $1.36M and is ranked #1853 on CoinMarketCap. The cryptocurrency market can be highly volatile, so be sure to do your own research (DYOR) and assess your risk tolerance. Additionally, analyze Polkamarkets (POLK) price trends and patterns to find the best time to purchase POLK.