Polkamarkets is a DeFi-Powered Prediction Market built for cross-chain information exchange and trading where users take positions on outcomes of real world events–in a decentralized and interoperable platform on Polkadot.Users can monetise their forecasts of future outcomes and events within an interoperable and decentralized infrastructure where your beliefs become assets with financial value traded openly on the market.Buy \u0026 Sell fractions of event outcomes or even create your own events where others can take their own positions. And Participate \u0026 Provide Liquidity to Earn.More than just a prediction market Polkamarkets will have important entertainment features. These include NFT-based gamification live streaming integration for in-play positions on Esports \u0026 Sports and daily crypto price markets. Live chats and virtual events in online communities will also form a key entertainment value-add to our platform.Launched on 28/01/2021 by a fully remote team based in Bali London and Lisbon Polkamarkets aims to solve problems in the Prediction Markets industry such as lack of liquidity \u0026 markets lack of traders and duplicate or confusing markets by incentivising liquidity providers and traders to facilitate \u0026 take large positions while a system for curation and resolution ensures efficient and trustworthy markets.$POLK is the native utility token that is used token is used to coordinate incentives to make network effects to solve the problems that plague prediction markets such as low volumes low liquidity and low daily active use. Polkamarkets has designed $POLK for the following key DeFi and gamification use-cases:● Prediction Markets Creation: $POLK is required for users to open new markets on Polkamarkets. If you want to know the future and receive the wisdom of the crowd you must use $POLK.● Mining: Users and LPs earn $POLK by making forecasts on the platform and by providing liquidity to Polkamarkets.● Direct Fees for Liquidity Providers (LPs): All markets on Polkamarkets pay a 0.3% trading fee. 2/3 of all trading fees (0.2%) on Polkamarkets will be paid to LPs in the token (ETH / DOT for example) in which they were collected. The remaining 1/3 of fees (0.1%) are used to auto-buy $POLK via smart contract on decentralised exchanges.● Yield Farming: The 1/3 of all trading fees (0.1%) on Polkamarkets will be used to purchase $POLK on DEXs to be paid out to LPs for their service of providing liquidity.● Gamification: Achieving higher and higher tiers of earned $POLK will unlock exclusive NFTs access to bigger markets and special features.Polkamarkets MVP core features include:● Take positions on events in real time in Esports Sports Crypto Prices Politics \u0026 More.● Promotions and Giveaways● Liquidity Provisioning and Rewards for LPs● Mine $POLK by forecasting on Polkamarkets● Mine $POLK by providing liquidity to Polkamarkets● Yield Farm $POLK