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"Building reliable infrastructure crossed blockchain networks and accepted fiscal rails is hard — determination are nary shortcuts,” said Polymarket CEO Shayne Coplan.
Mar 18, 2026, 7:56 p.m.
Prediction markets level Polymarket announced Wednesday the acquisition of Brahma, a fiscal infrastructure institution that built real-time execution and colony systems for high-volume integer plus and fintech transactions.
"[Brahma has] rapidly go an manufacture person successful gathering and processing programmable systems crossed blockchain systems, trading execution, and payments," said Polymarket successful a property merchandise sent via email.
“Building reliable infrastructure crossed blockchain networks and accepted fiscal rails is hard — determination are nary shortcuts,” said Shayne Coplan, Polymarket CEO and founder.
“The Brahma squad has shown they tin design, operate, and standard analyzable products for blase users,” helium added. “As Polymarket grows, we’re intentionally adding teams that person already solved hard problems and tin execute astatine a precise precocious level.”
A Polymarket spokesperson told CoinDesk the presumption of the statement are not being disclosed.
Brahma besides released a connection Wednesday saying Polymarket acquired its DeFi infrastructure to bring its squad and exertion into the prediction marketplace institution arsenic it seeks to standard its infrastructure suite.
“With this acquisition, our squad and our exertion unrecorded on, to assistance standard Polymarket and its ecosystem,” the Brahma team said successful a station connected X. “Our ngo to physique astatine the halfway of crypto continues.”
The acquisition brings Brahma’s squad and exertion into Polymarket, wherever they volition absorption connected expanding the platform’s infrastructure and merchandise suite. It besides appears aimed astatine improving
Earlier this month, reports emerged that Polymarket was discussing imaginable fundraising rounds that could treble 2025 valuation to astir $20 billion. The discussions stay aboriginal and whitethorn not pb to finalized investments.
Prediction markets let users to commercialized contracts tied to real-world events, including sports, authorities and elections. Traders bargain and merchantability contracts based connected expected outcomes. The assemblage has grown significantly, with companies including Coinbase and Robinhood entering the space.
Brahma said it has processed much than $1 cardinal successful transaction measurement and implicit $100 cardinal successful full worth locked. The institution besides said that each of its products, including Brahma Accounts, Agents and Swype.fun, volition beryllium phased retired wrong 30 days. Users person been instructed to migrate funds and positions via its website and assemblage channels.
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