Polymarket API users who complete KYC or KYB may now get direct access to the platform’s primary server region for lower-latency trading.
Prediction market platform Polymarket has added a clearer verified-access route for traders who care about speed.
According to its developer documentation, Polymarket’s primary servers run in eu-west-2, the AWS region for London, while the closest non-georestricted region is eu-west-1, the AWS region for Ireland.
Users who complete a KYC or KYB form can get access to co-locate directly in eu-west-2 for the “lowest possible latency” to Polymarket’s primary servers, the documentation reads.
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Polymarket API Faces Latency Questions
Prediction markets are often very fast-paced, and a few milliseconds might actually make a difference when price changes occur following news, poll, sporting or macro-economic updates.
Last February, market participants accused bad actors of taking advantage of a race condition in which orders were being matched off-chain by Polymarket and later settled on-chain on the Polygon network.
Polymarket has already acknowledged the latency issue directly. Josh Stevens, Polymarket’s vice president of engineering for DeFi, said in an X post that the platform built much of its core trading infrastructure years ago and is now reworking it for today’s scale.
KYC Matters More for Bots
Unlike Kalshi, a CFTC-regulated U.S. prediction market platform, Polymarket has long been seen as a more offshore-first alternative, partly because its trading activity is built around on-chain settlement.
Still, even as Polymarket works on a return to the U.S., its docs list 33 fully restricted countries, including the U.S., UK, France, Germany, Italy, Australia, Russia and Singapore, along with restricted regions such as Ontario, Crimea, Donetsk and Luhansk.
It’s unclear whether this approach will affect the trading experience on Polymarket by widening the gap between bots and regular users, especially if verified high-speed traders get better access to the platform’s main server region.
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