Polymarket

Polymarket is a prediction market where users buy and sell shares on the outcomes of real-world events. Trades are matched in an off-chain order book and settled in USDC on Polygon, with outcomes resolved through UMA's optimistic oracle.

Rating D: 50 restrictions: 50 countries. Prediction market · Polygon.

Official app: polymarket.com. Frontend code: closed.

Restrictions

  • Geo Block: yes. polymarket.com/api/geoblock decides by IP: in blocked countries and regions markets stay viewable but trading is refused; close-only countries can only close positions. Lists from the help center (revision of 2026-08-14) Blocked countries: Australia, Belgium, Belarus, Brazil, Burundi, Central African Republic, Congo - Kinshasa, Cuba, Germany, Ethiopia, France, United Kingdom, Ireland, Iran, Iraq, Italy, Japan, North Korea, Lebanon, Libya, Myanmar (Burma), Malta, Nicaragua, Netherlands, New Zealand, Russia, Slovakia, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Syria, U.S. Outlying Islands, United States, Venezuela, Yemen, Zimbabwe, Alberta (CA), British Columbia (CA), Ontario (CA), Quebec (CA), Crimea and Sevastopol (UA), Donetsk region (DPR) (UA), Luhansk region (LPR) (UA), Argentina, Canada, South Korea. Close-only countries: Singapore, Poland, Thailand, Taiwan.
  • Feature Block: no.
  • Wallet screening: n/a.
  • VPN / Tor detection: ToS only. Help center: using a VPN to bypass the restrictions violates the Terms (section 2.1.4); no detection mechanism documented.
  • Terms of Service: polymarket.com/tos, Last updated 2026-08-11. Section 2.1.4 of the Terms forbids using the platform from restricted locations and bypassing them with a VPN; the list itself is the help-center article 'Geographic Restrictions' (revision of 2026-08-14): 40 blocked countries (the article's heading says 39) and 7 blocked regions (four Canadian provinces, Crimea, Donetsk, Luhansk).

Notes

The CLOB API itself is geo-blocked for the main tiers, not only the website.

Live checks

  • /api/geoblock (US, 2026-10-11) -> {blocked: true, country: US, region: VA}
  • /api/geoblock (US) -> {blocked: true, country: US, region: OH}; overlay 'Trading is blocked in the United States'

Evidence

Checked 2026-10-28. All interfaces · Methodology