Polymarket has tapped Chainalysis to layer Wall Street-calibre compliance and monitoring infrastructure onto its prediction market platform. The move signals that the leading on-chain prediction venue is actively courting institutional participants who require auditable, regulated-grade oversight before committing capital.
Chainalysis brings battle-tested blockchain analytics — the same stack used by exchanges and regulators globally — into a DeFi-native context. For prediction markets, which have long operated in a grey zone between speculation and information aggregation, credible compliance rails could be the unlock that brings in a new class of professional traders and institutional liquidity.
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