Polymarket rebuilds API gateway in Rust, pages now 4-8x faster
Polymarket · x · 2026-09-18
Polymarket engineers explain why the site slowed down: as market creation exploded, the UI (which had no market paging) flooded the Gamma service with API calls.
The fix shipped so far:
- A new internal gateway API built in Rust
- Combo and sports pages rebuilt from scratch on top of it
- Combos now load 8x faster, sports 4x faster (with before/after comparison)
Next up: event, esports, categories and home pages, with a weekly goal of making the whole site feel instant.
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