Elon Musk officially announced a strategic partnership between X and Polymarket, declaring his intention to replace traditional polls and media with predictive markets in crypto.
X officially partners with Polymarket
Elon Musk had a dream, and now he’s taking action. X, the social network with hundreds of millions of users, is officially partnering with Polymarket, the crypto predictive betting platform.
But this is no ordinary collaboration; it’s a declaration of war against traditional press and questionable polls.
Predictive markets on the rise
Polymarket allows users to bet on the outcome of major events, using USDC. Elections, geopolitics, sports – everything becomes an opportunity to turn public opinion into a liquid market. In April, the platform broke its own record with over 7,000 markets launched (+20% in a month).
The traffic, however, tells a different story: 450,000 active users in January, a peak during the U.S. presidential election… but a decline since. The cause? Focusing on a core group of experienced bettors, according to analysts.
Musk wants numbers, not babble
For months, Elon Musk has been championing the superiority of predictive markets over polls. During the U.S. presidential election, he tweeted:
Trump leads Kamala by 3% in the markets. More reliable than polls: here, money is at stake.
And he wasn’t wrong. The Polymarket community anticipated Trump’s victory, where polls were still failing.
A French bettor even reportedly pocketed tens of millions of dollars, by heavily betting on the outcome of the Trump-Harris duel.
A radical vision of information
Polymarket’s message is clear:
The future of truth on the internet will not come from 20th-century media, but from markets.
Therefore, the partnership with X marks a new era: one of decentralized, verifiable information directly tied to financial incentives.
Why this changes everything for crypto
For years, X has been the go-to platform for the crypto community: traders, investors, founders… all discuss real-time news there.
But despite this closeness, Elon Musk had never officially integrated a crypto service into X. Even Dogecoin, which he mentions frequently, has never received a real relay via the platform.
It may all have started to change with “X Money”, a feature announced earlier this year for sending money between users. Some saw it as a step towards cryptocurrency integration.
A real-world test
This partnership between X and Polymarket could serve as a giant laboratory for the fusion of social networks and decentralized finance.
Musk bets on a truth driven by economic incentives. And Polymarket aims to establish its model as the most reliable source of information in the digital age.
An audacious gamble. But in the crypto world, it’s often the craziest bets that change the rules of the game.
