| EC-001 | Polymarket is an active public prediction-market platform with markets spanning politics, sports, crypto, finance, geopolitics, technology, culture, economy, and weather. | verified high | SRC-001SRC-013 |
| EC-002 | Polymarket operates through separate legal entities; Polymarket US is described as QCX LLC d/b/a Polymarket US, a CFTC-regulated Designated Contract Market, while the international platform is not CFTC-regulated. | partially verified medium | SRC-002SRC-013SRC-014 |
| EC-003 | ICE states that Polymarket was founded in 2020 by Shayne Coplan. | verified high | SRC-004 |
| EC-004 | ICE announced a strategic investment of up to $2 billion in Polymarket at an approximately $8 billion pre-investment valuation. | verified high | SRC-004 |
| EC-005 | ICE announced an additional $600 million direct cash investment in Polymarket and expected purchases of up to $40 million from other shareholders. | verified high | SRC-005 |
| EC-006 | CB Insights listed Polymarket as a private unicorn with a $9 billion valuation, a 2025-10-07 unicorn date, United States/New York geography, Financial Services sector, and investors including 1789 Capital and Founders Fund. | verified medium | SRC-006 |
| EC-007 | The CFTC settled charges against Blockratize, Inc. d/b/a Polymarket in 2022 for off-exchange event-based binary options and failure to obtain DCM or SEF registration, imposing a $1.4 million penalty and wind-down/cease-and-desist obligations. | verified high | SRC-007 |
| EC-008 | CFTC educational material frames event contracts as regulated products that can implicate DCM oversight, customer-protection, and market-integrity requirements. | verified medium | SRC-008 |
| EC-009 | Polymarket's careers page stated that the service is visited by over 30 million people each month and listed 42 open roles across functions. | partially verified medium | SRC-003 |
| EC-010 | Polymarket presents its event data as usable by X, Substack, Yahoo Finance, ICE, Dow Jones, and financial institutions. | partially verified medium | SRC-003SRC-004SRC-009 |
| EC-011 | Dow Jones announced an exclusive prediction-market partnership making Polymarket data available across The Wall Street Journal, Barron's, MarketWatch, and Investor's Business Daily. | verified high | SRC-009 |
| EC-012 | Polymarket's docs expose public API surfaces for events, markets, orderbooks/prices, orders, trades, and CLOB market data. | verified high | SRC-010 |
| EC-013 | The Gamma API returned active market metadata including prices, volume, liquidity, outcomes, and CLOB token IDs. | verified medium | SRC-011 |
| EC-014 | The CLOB API returned orderbook-market fields with open/active and accepting-order indicators. | verified medium | SRC-012 |
| EC-015 | Polymarket US publicly presented an early-access waitlist with 'Markets on everything' messaging and recurring SMS consent. | verified medium | SRC-014 |
| EC-016 | Polymarket maintains public brand assets, social/community channels, docs, rewards, leaderboards, accuracy, and activity links. | verified medium | SRC-013 |
| EC-017 | The Oracle by Polymarket operates as a company media channel with recurring market-focused analysis content. | verified medium | SRC-015 |
| EC-018 | Fox Business covered a Polymarket-branded free grocery-store activation in New York City in February 2026. | verified medium | SRC-016 |
| EC-019 | Audited financial statements, management reports, sales/gross-profit breakdowns, backlog, AR aging, customer concentration, cap table, debt, tax positions, and revenue-recognition policies were not available in public sources reviewed. | not publicly verifiable medium | SRC-001SRC-003SRC-004SRC-005SRC-006 |
| EC-020 | Polymarket's product categories include politics/elections, sports, crypto, finance, geopolitics, technology, culture, economy, weather, and mentions/tweet markets. | verified high | SRC-001SRC-013 |
| EC-021 | Open roles indicate investment in engineering, U.S. exchange, legal, AML compliance, trade surveillance, growth, product, IT, and talent. | verified medium | SRC-003 |
| EC-022 | ICE and Dow Jones relationships position Polymarket data as an institutional/media distribution product beyond consumer trading. | verified high | SRC-004SRC-009 |
| EC-023 | API docs indicate wallet/deposit-wallet workflows, suggesting crypto/onchain custody, compliance, and user-operations dependencies. | partially verified medium | SRC-010SRC-003 |
| EC-024 | Prediction-market competition includes at least public political/event market alternatives such as PredictIt, and likely regulated/financial-market venues in adjacent event-contract products. | verified medium | SRC-017SRC-008 |
| EC-025 | Material contracts, insurance policies, IP/trademark registrations, employee safety policies, and pending litigation schedules were not public in the reviewed sources. | not publicly verifiable medium | SRC-002SRC-004SRC-009SRC-013 |
| EC-026 | Current public sources support that Polymarket remains private, operating, and not already represented by an existing repository report. | verified high | SRC-001SRC-003SRC-006SRC-011SRC-012SRC-014 |