Polymarket Japan is the official Japanese-language account for Polymarket, a crypto-based prediction market built on Polygon and founded by Shayne Coplan. Polymarket Japan's Twitter Score is 25 out of 1000 as of August 2026, ranking #39,214 (top 10%) among 483,944 tracked accounts.
Polymarket Japan represents Polymarket's push into the Japanese market, where the platform has appointed Mike Eidlin as Country Manager and is targeting regulatory approval by 2030, though Japan currently remains a restricted country. Polymarket's collateral token, pUSD, is an ERC-20 token on Polygon backed by USDC, underpinning the platform's prediction markets across politics, news, crypto, culture, sports, and technology.
Polymarket Japan reflects the broader growth of Polymarket as a platform. In May 2024, Polymarket announced $70 million in capital across a Series B led by Founders Fund and a Series A led by General Catalyst, with additional backing from 1confirmation, ParaFi Capital, Dragonfly Capital, Polychain Capital, and 1789 Capital. In October 2025, Intercontinental Exchange agreed to invest up to $2 billion in Polymarket and partner on tokenization initiatives.
Polymarket Japan operates in a regulatory context shaped by a January 2022 settlement in which the CFTC imposed a $1.4 million penalty on Polymarket for offering off-exchange binary-options contracts and required noncompliant markets to be wound down. The account has accumulated 79,049 followers as of August 2026 and 20,176 posts since joining in 2021. Polymarket Japan has been mentioned by 11 accounts a total of 13 times.
Who follows Polymarket Japan on X?
The accounts that follow Polymarket Japan include 100 founders, 13 angel investors and 76 influencers. Among them are Polymarket, DEGEN NEWS, Jihoz.ron, Armani Ferrante, wale.moca and Abstract.