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Polymarket has teamed up with OpenWorlds to bring autonomous AI agents to prediction markets covering politics, sports, and thousands of other events.
OpenWorlds says its AI agents can search for markets, study the available information, evaluate events, and place trades. The company is developing the system for consumers and retail traders, allowing users to automate steps that they would normally handle themselves.
The proposed system works through three main steps: finding a market, evaluating it, and trading. Instead of simply showing users possible trades, the AI agent can search across live Polymarket markets, assess the information, and take action based on its analysis.
For example, an agent could look for a specific sports or political event, review the market and available information, and then decide whether to take a position. OpenWorlds says the process can continue as market conditions and event information change.
The company says users keep control of their wallets through their chosen wallet provider, while OpenWorlds does not collect or store private keys. Its privacy policy also says some services may support delegated signing for AI operations.
OpenWorlds records information such as agent settings, actions, and results. When users connect the system to a third-party market platform, related requests and data may be sent to that platform to carry out trades and return results. The company also says it may use information from AI activity to improve its models and platform.
The partnership comes as Polymarket continues to improve its technology. In September, the company moved its main blockchain indexing system in-house. Polymarket said the new system could detect some onchain events up to 14 blocks, or around 28 seconds, faster, while Goldsky remained available as a backup.
Other companies have also developed ways to connect users with Polymarket markets. In August, Fortune Protocol added Polymarket liquidity to Fortune Markets alongside Predict.fun. Its platform allows users to compare liquidity, trading volume and market probabilities before choosing an outcome and preparing a trade.
OpenWorlds is taking a different approach. Its system is focused on an AI agent that can search, evaluate and trade on behalf of a user, while Fortune’s product mainly gives users market information and a trading interface.
Polymarket has also been expanding its own technology. The company acquired DeFi infrastructure startup Brahma in March, adding smart-account technology designed to support wallets, deposits, asset transfers and redemption of prediction-market tokens. Polymarket also acquired registered derivatives exchange QCEX and prediction-market data company Dome.
For U.S. users, access depends on which Polymarket platform they use. The company’s international blockchain platform and its regulated U.S. operation are separate.
After a 2022 settlement with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Polymarket agreed to block U.S. customers from its international platform. The company later returned to the U.S. through a CFTC-registered exchange that it acquired.
Polymarket has also increased its monitoring systems. The company says it uses machine learning, blockchain analytics and trade surveillance to identify unusual activity. It has said that more than 100 cases were referred to law enforcement.
State-level rules remain another issue. On Sept. 24, New York Attorney General Letitia James sued Polymarket over its sports contracts. The state alleges that Polymarket offered gambling products without a New York license and allowed users between 18 and 20 years old to access them.
New York is asking the court to stop the alleged activity, seek customer restitution and impose civil penalties. Polymarket can challenge those allegations in court.
The case also highlights a broader disagreement over how prediction-market contracts should be regulated. State officials argue that federal oversight of event contracts does not prevent states from enforcing their gambling laws, while prediction-market operators have argued in other cases that qualifying contracts traded on federally regulated exchanges fall under CFTC oversight.
