Chainlink and Polymarket Forge Game-Changing Partnership to Turbocharge Speed and Reliability
Chainlink and Polymarket just joined forces—and it's about to rewrite the rules of prediction markets.
Why This Matters
Speed kills in crypto—slow data means missed opportunities. This partnership slashes latency and supercharges reliability, giving Polymarket users near-instant market resolution. No more waiting around for oracle updates that feel like they're moving through molasses.
The Tech Punch
Chainlink’s decentralized oracles now feed Polymarket real-world data without the traditional bottlenecks. That means faster settlements, sharper accuracy, and a user experience that doesn’t make you want to pull your hair out. It’s infrastructure upgrades like this that separate serious platforms from the rest of the pack.
Finance, But Make It Ironic
Because let’s be real—if Wall Street ran prediction markets, we’d still be waiting for a committee to approve the oracle’s lunch break. Sometimes decentralization actually delivers what finance only promises.
Polymarket and Chainlink Join Forces
Chainlink, a major blockchain infrastructure firm, has been making huge partnerships lately, attempting to target China’s RWA market and securing a large contract with the US government.
Today’s announcement is slightly less grandiose, but still significant: chainlink is partnering up with Polymarket.
.@Polymarket, the leading onchain prediction markets platform, has officially partnered with Chainlink to launch new 15-minute markets featuring near-instant settlement and industry-leading security.https://t.co/M5C1yRrBI5
Starting with asset pricing, the integration combines… pic.twitter.com/Dh7LQLmTdo
According to the firm’s press release, Chainlink is aiming to help Polymarket’s speed and accuracy. The company will employ its decentralized oracle networks to automatically settle asset price-related markets to reduce latency and tampering risks.
This should allow many bet categories to resolve on-chain almost instantaneously. For now, it only applies to prediction markets covered by Chainlink Data Streams, ie, token prices, but this could change in the future.
Potential for Growth
Specifically, Chainlink mentioned exploring this technology for some of Polymarket’s more subjective betting categories, but it didn’t make any firm commitments. Still, many of the platform’s largest recent bets have involved events like celebrity gossip and sports outcomes.
It’d be ideal to reduce reliance on social voting mechanisms for these markets, especially if they’re going to become a significant portion of the firm’s total volume.
Kalshi, for its part, is already planning to make sports betting a major revenue stream, so the competition is bending in that direction.
Chainlink added that this Polymarket update is already live on Polygon mainnet, enabling users to create “robust prediction markets around… hundreds of crypto trading pairs.” If these solutions prove popular with Polymarket’s user base, this partnership could deepen for new technological applications.
