Polymarket grew from a 50-person DeFi protocol to a 500-person CFTC-regulated exchange in a year
SiddDevs · x · 2026-09-29
A Polymarket team member recounts the company's rarely-covered expansion: from 50 people running a non-revenue DeFi protocol to 500 employees operating a US CFTC-regulated exchange, plus the original protocol and a new perps exchange, all within about a year.
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