
Will the future $POLY token be backed by Polymarket equity ?
@williamlegate seems to indicate that the airdrop will somehow be linked to the coming Polymarket IPO
One way it could work would be by making $POLY token pegged to stock price.
There is nothing technically difficult about it, you can already trade $NVDA shares on Hyperliquid in their tokenized versions. In fact you can even trade Anthropic shares that aren't even public.
Polymarket being the issuer would make that even easier. In fact It wouldn't be any more complicated than issuing a stablecoin, which Polymarket already does.
That would be an elegant way to resolve the conflicting incentive of equity and token holders. They are both vehicles made to capture part of the value of the platform, and if they remain uncorrelated then they will be competing for this value, which will create friction between token and stock holders.
It's just a theory right now but screenshot this just in case

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