More than just a prediction market, Polkamarkets 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%.
Founders of Polkamarkets
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.
What Is Polkamarkets ($POLK)?
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
How Many $POLK Coins Are There in Circulation?
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%.
Who Are the Founders of Polkamarkets?
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.
Where Can I Buy Polkamarkets ($POLK)?
$POLK will be first sold on the Polkastarter IDO platform, and later be made available for trading on decentralized exchange Uniswap.
Timeline
Polkamarkets Labs is happy to announce the deployment of the multi-chain prediction market protocol! This is a huge step towards the development of the 2nd version of the Polkamarkets Protocol.
If you haven’t already joined our Telegram and Twitter, click here to join the conversation! Please also read this article for more information about the partnership with SubQuery for data indexing and optimization.
Why multi-chain?
Multi-chain capability on prediction markets allows a wider range of users and communities to predict the future and forecast events. Our goal is to build the best forecasting tool for use-cases such as crypto-markets, real-world event outcomes, sports, and more. The more chains and communities that those chains represent that are able to use the Polkamarkets Protocol with their native assets, the more adoption and use for prediction markets grow.
Network selector — how you can switch between networks in the interface
Network selector — how you can switch between networks in the interface
Users on both Moonbeam and Moonriver are now able to use native assets to use the Polkamarkets Protocol, without having to bridge first. This is a critical step towards lowering the barrier to entry for prediction markets use. The future roadmap for the Polkamarkets Protocol includes the support of additional chains as development rolls on, in a multi-chain paradigm.
Bridge your POLK from the Ethereum Network to Moonbeam Network.
If you hold POLK in Ethereum and desire to move it to Moonbeam, it’s possible to do so through the Meter bridge to the Moonbeam Network.
Check our guide on how to perform it here: https://help.polkamarkets.com/en/articles/5917503-how-to-bridge-polk-from-ethereum-to-moonbeam
You’ll be able to bridge your POLK back to Ethereum Network using the same exact process. Just switch the “To” and “From” networks on Meter and repeat the steps above.
Deployment on other EVMs such as Polygon, Avalanche, and much more.
Being a multi-chain platform requires a lot of effort developing and improving app performance in order to fulfill certain requirements of each chain. Partnering and integrating with the right networks is part of the Polkamarkets Labs’ roadmap.
We will be continuously working on development in order to progress on our roadmap.
Fiat Ramp Integration.
Mobile App development.
Dynamic Markets News Aggregation.
POLK V2 Protocol Governance DAO.
Polkamarkets Alliance Group.
The Polkamarkets Protocol is now available on the most used EVMs for both Kusama (Moonriver) and Polkadot (Moonbeam) relayers.
We will continue to strive to add value to the Polkadot/Kusama Ecosystem via EVM compatible ecosystems and continue R&D into Substrate direct modeling of Solidity protocols into substrate-based ones.
You can read more in our Public Roadmap. We update it on a bi-weekly basis (once per two weeks). All development only mentions the Protocol Side of Development. Stay tuned and up to date by joining our Discord Server.
We are hiring!
We look forward to the next steps and if you are looking to join a great project, please drop us your resume here! At Polkamarkets Labs, we are looking for two new members:
Node.js & Solidity Developer (apply)
Chief of Ecosystem Growth (apply)
About Moonbeam Network
Moonbeam is an Ethereum-compatible smart contract platform on the Polkadot network that makes it easy to build natively interoperable applications. This Ethereum compatibility allows developers to deploy existing Solidity smart contracts and DApp frontends to Moonbeam with minimal changes. As a parachain on the Polkadot network, Moonbeam will benefit from the shared security of the Polkadot relay chain and integrations with other chains that are connected to Polkadot.
About Polkamarkets
Polkamarkets is an Autonomous Prediction Market Protocol built for multi-chain information exchange and trading where users take positions on outcomes of real-world events–in decentralized and interoperable EVMs.
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Announcing Multi-chain Market Protocol (Moonriver + Moonbeam) | Medium
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Announcing Multi-chain Market Protocol (Moonriver + Moonbeam) | Medium
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