Polymarket (@Polymarket) — Twitter Score 755 out of 1000

Polymarket is a cryptocurrency-based prediction market platform launched in June 2020, where users trade event-outcome shares settled in USDC on Polygon. Formerly known as Union Marketplace, it was founded by Shayne Coplan, who serves as its Founder and CEO. Polymarket's Twitter Score is 755 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of July 2026, ranking it #78 out of 531,432 scored accounts. Polymarket ranks #78 (top 0.1%) out of 531,432 tracked accounts on TwitterScore.

Polymarket has 1,780,710 followers as of July 2026 and 33,761 posts. The platform recorded over $3.3 billion wagered on the 2024 U.S. presidential election. In May 2024, Polymarket closed a $45 million Series B led by Founders Fund, with Vitalik Buterin among the participants, bringing total funding well over $70 million. Additional backers include General Catalyst, Coinbase, Dragonfly, 1789 Capital, 1confirmation, and Team Ignite Ventures. In October 2025, Intercontinental Exchange announced plans to invest up to $2 billion in Polymarket at approximately an $8 billion valuation. Polymarket has an official partnership with X, and its advisers include Donald Trump Jr. and Nate Silver, with J. Christopher Giancarlo chairing its advisory board.

Polymarket has faced several regulatory and legal events. In January 2022, the CFTC ordered its legal entity, Blockratize Inc., to pay a $1.4 million penalty and cease operations for offering unregistered event-based binary options, blocking U.S. customers from the platform. In November 2024, the FBI conducted a court-authorized search at founder Shayne Coplan's home as part of a DOJ and CFTC probe into whether Polymarket had allowed U.S. users onto the platform; no charges were filed against Polymarket or Coplan. Polymarket re-entered the U.S. market at the end of 2025 following its $112 million acquisition of QCEX, a CFTC-licensed exchange and clearinghouse, in July 2025; federal prosecutors and the CFTC closed their investigations that same month without further action. In March 2026, Polymarket acquired Brahma, a crypto and DeFi infrastructure startup. In April 2026, U.S. authorities arrested and indicted a Special Forces soldier allegedly using classified information to place bets netting over $400,000 on Nicolás Maduro's ouster before a U.S. Venezuela operation became public; Polymarket stated it cooperated with the investigation. In June 2026, a phishing attack via a compromised third-party vendor script resulted in approximately $3.1 million in losses across 11 user wallets; Polymarket pledged full refunds to affected users. Polymarket has been mentioned by 2,880 accounts, with 11,065 total mentions.

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Polymarket draws followers across crypto, finance, and political communities. The accounts that follow Polymarket include 2,485 founders, 506 angel investors, 2,339 influencers and 45 VCs, among them Toly, jesse.base.eth, Ansem, vitalik.eth, Elon Musk and Solana.