X, previously Twitter, announced on Friday that it has partnered with Polymarket, naming it the platform’s official prediction market associate. Launched in 2020, Polymarket permits customers to wager on the outcomes of real-world occasions utilizing cryptocurrency.

Though the businesses didn’t announce specifics concerning the partnership, they shared that they are going to be launching “an built-in product to ship data-driven insights and proposals.” Polymarket predictions might be mixed with X information to ship dwell insights, with real-time annotations of market strikes from Grok and related X posts, Polymarket defined in a press release.

The product would be the first in “a set of integrations and distinctive experiences” that may emerge from the partnership, the corporate mentioned. 

“Combining Polymarket’s correct, unbiased, and real-time prediction market possibilities with Grok’s evaluation and X’s actual time insights will allow us to supply contextualized, data-driven insights to tens of millions of Polymarket customers all over the world instantaneously,” mentioned Shayne Coplan, founder and CEO of Polymarket, within the press launch. “We stay up for enhancing X and Polymarket customers’ capability to make immediate sense of breaking information and make knowledgeable selections concerning the future as we proceed to scale our platform.”

In 2024, over $8 billion in predictions have been made on Polymarket throughout politics, present occasions, popular culture, and extra.

The information comes almost a after Polymarket partnered with AI-powered search engine Perplexity to show information summaries of occasions. This occurred across the identical time that Polymarket partnered with Substack to permit writers to embed prediction information from its platform into their posts.