StarkWare Opens OffMarket to Public for Private Polymarket Trades

The real story here is not privacy as a feature but privacy as a market-structure question. Prediction markets have always carried a reputational cost: a visible position is a public statement, and that suppresses participation from anyone whose bets would be awkward to explain. StarkWare is effectively betting that removing that link expands the pool of traders rather than just hiding the existing ones. The notable gap is the absence of volume or fee disclosure, which makes it hard to judge whether this is infrastructure with demand behind it or a capability in search of one. Whether anonymity becomes a standard expectation in prediction markets, or stays a niche preference, is the open question.