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Polymarket Adopts Pyth as Price Oracle to Launch Daily Stock and Commodity Markets

The integration creates a verifiable source of truth for settling high-stakes contracts.

Overview

  • Polymarket integrated Pyth as its resolution layer Thursday, unlocking daily up-or-down and close markets for major indexes, gold, silver, WTI crude, natural gas, and U.S. stocks like Tesla, Nvidia, Apple, Coinbase, and Palantir.
  • Pyth also introduced Pyth Terminal, which shows the live reference price and a “price to beat” chart so traders can verify outcomes in real time.
  • The oracle brings off-chain prices onto blockchains so contracts can settle automatically without manual checks or a single exchange as the referee.
  • Pyth says over 120 institutional publishers feed first-party prices into its network, offering a broader view of trading than any single-venue quote.
  • The rollout builds on a $600 million ICE investment disclosed March 27 and on sector growth to over $20 billion in monthly volume per TRM Labs, even as Argentine regulators restrict Polymarket.