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The character economy starts now. $ZOE is live on @base in partnership with @clanker_world. CA: 0xC29832025E7652ef58D15F7fA3e232A2fDfaaB07

This is my 3rd week as VP of Engineering DeFi at @Polymarket , and I'm going to be straight: the traction @Polymarket has seen has massively outpaced our infrastructure, and we haven't done nearly enough to scale to keep up. I hear you, and fixing this is our entire focus. We're a major company now, and we need to engineer like one. Here's exactly what we're doing: - Onchain data latency. We're working on making this near-instant so the experience is incredible. - Chain migration. We need more block space, cheaper gas and much smaller block times so settlement is instant. - Transactions are getting cancelled. We understand this is one of the most frustrating issues right now, and we have a complete fix coming very soon. - Massive focus on the website to make it faster, more responsive, and with better UX. - We added observability everywhere. Proper alerting so we catch issues ourselves, market makers should not be the ones telling us something is down. That's been unacceptable, and we know it. - E2e tests throughout, starting with the CLOB, so issues get caught in CI before anything ships. - CLOBv2 is not a rewrite. It won't improve performance or stability on its own; it's an upgrade that unlocks us to move fast right after. We'll do better with communication next time. - We are rebuilding the CLOB from the ground up. Most important thing we're doing. Without it, we can't be the best DeFi exchange in the world. We know it, we're on it, it's mission critical. - Unified TypeScript SDK for all APIs, which is shipping soon. - Unified API. One WS connection for everything, with a schema that's actually readable. - New Polymarket contract in the works that unlocks things that are simply impossible on the current protocol. - New hires: Head of QA Automation, Head of Dev Tooling, Head of Internal Tooling, Head of Data Engineering. - Smaller, dedicated teams. Fewer focus points per person, clearer ownership. People do what they're good at and are accountable for it. - Working closely with customer support to give them real debugging tools so any user issue gets properly diagnosed, not lost. - Proper communication with marketing and market makers so everyone knows what's coming and when, and MM can submit feature requests with a clear path to get them into engineering and shipped. - Working with 4 security teams daily to ensure we're super secure and that funds are always safe. - Perps incoming. Brand new contracts and a backend built from scratch in Rust. We're proud of this one. - A lot of other fixes are running in parallel right now. Starting next Friday, I will be posting weekly engineering updates. I joined because I genuinely believe in what @Polymarket is trying to do. @shayne_coplan built this so the world has somewhere to go to find out what's actually going to happen, not what the media thinks, not what a pundit says, but what thousands of people are willing to put money on. But right now, our engineering isn't living up to that. We've let people down, and I'm not going to dress that up. I came here to fix it, and that's exactly what we're going to do. The next few months are going to speak for themselves. Stay with us.

My OpenClaw agent woke me up at 3:47 AM with one message: “6 markets resolving in the next 90 minutes. Need approval for $12K.” I typed “yes” and went back to sleep. Woke up to +$43,800. For the past 9 days I’ve been running an agent that hunts timezone arbitrage on Polymarket. The setup is simple. I gave the agent access to global sources: • Japanese government RSS • EU parliament streams • Australian financial wires • Middle East flight trackers • Asian central bank announcements Then told it: “Alert me when a market resolving during US sleep hours (2–6 AM EST) shows >30% edge.” At 3:47 AM it detected 6 markets where the outcome was already clear in local sources — but Polymarket prices hadn’t moved yet. Copytrade → t.me/KreoPolyBot?st… wallet: @k9Q2mX4L8A7ZP3R" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">polymarket.com/@k9Q2mX4L8A7ZP… Examples: • Japan rate decision — official signals showing ~68%, market at 23¢ • EU emergency vote — livestream showing YES ahead, market 31¢ • Korea policy update — government RSS confirmed, market 19¢ • Australia trade deal — minister quote out, market 27¢ • UAE production cut — OPEC notes public, market 15¢ • Singapore regulation vote — parliament session live, market 22¢ Total capital deployed: $12,000 By 7:30 AM all six markets had resolved. Entries between 15¢–31¢ Payouts 95¢–$1 Final result: +$43,800 The edge is simple: Most Polymarket traders are in the US. But global events resolve while the US is asleep. By the time America wakes up — the markets are already closed.

Introducing the Open Gas Initiative - a way for protocols to subsidize gas for users, zero-code, for a seamless, frictionless onchain experience. With OG cohort: @eigencloud, @ether_fi, @pendle_fi, @Velvet_Capital. 👇