TREE NEWS update: Polymarket has hired the former CEO of Zora as it pushes to rebuild its onchain product, with the prediction market’s vice president of DeFi engineering saying its existing central limit order book cannot be saved long term and is being rebuilt in Rust. The hire and the rebuild point to a broader shift toward onchain infrastructure at the platform.
Polymarket Hires Ex-Zora CEO for Onchain Product Push
AI take
The significance here is that a prediction market best known for centralized matching is publicly conceding its order book has a shelf life, and staffing an onchain rebuild rather than iterating on the existing one. Bringing in a former NFT-platform CEO suggests the ambition extends beyond matching trades to owning more of the settlement and liquidity stack. The open question is whether a Rust-based onchain venue can preserve the execution quality users expect while the legacy book still runs — and how competitors with similar onchain plans respond.
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