TLDR Tech / Crypto
Polymarket Chain Migration and Full Infrastructure Overhaul
Polymarket published a roadmap conceding the platform's infrastructure has failed to scale with its growth, citing cancelled transactions, data latency, and poor market maker communication as specific pain points. The overhaul includes a chain migration off Polygon targeting cheaper gas and instant settlement, a ground-up CLOB rebuild, Rust-based perps with new contracts, and a unified TypeScript SDK paired with a unified WebSocket API. They are looking for senior hires across QA automation, dev tooling, internal tooling, and data engineering.
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