Polymarket and other prediction platforms driving oil market, traders say - short news
Datafeeds from platforms being used to create algorithms that determine multimillion-dollar trades on global market
Energy traders say online betting platforms are directly driving the global oil market as they increasingly rely on anonymous prediction markets to determine multimillion-dollar trades.
Market experts have said that datafeeds from prediction platforms such as Polymarket are being used to create the algorithms that influence trading in the global Brent crude futures..
source: The Guardian - 02.04.2026