Polymarket’s Corporate Structure Is a Mystery—Even to Some of Its Former Employees
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When a prediction market’s Panamanian entity is opaque even to former employees, regulatory and operational risk are effectively unknowable from the outside. If you’re touching real money or sensitive data, treat unclear corporate structures as a hard red flag — counterparty risk now includes governance opacity, not just balance sheet strength.
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