Lending & Perps Prediction Markets

Beyond a simple long — earn yield by supplying the lending pool, understand how perps differ from leverage-through-lending, and learn to short overvalued outcomes or hedge an existing position.

New to leveraging Lending & Perps markets? Start with Leverage Trading on Polymarket: The Complete Guide.

Guide

Polymarket Perps: How to Trade With Leverage

Polymarket's own Perps product trades crypto, stocks, and commodities - not prediction outcomes. For leverage on the actual event markets, you borrow against your Polymarket shares through PredMart, up to 5x, with interest instead of funding. Here is the how-to.

· 9 min read

Guide

Do Prediction Markets Have Perps? Leverage Trading

Polymarket now has perps - but on crypto and stocks, not the event outcomes. Those resolve to $0 or $1, so they can't host a classic funding-rate perp; leverage on them comes from a lending pool, where borrow interest replaces funding, up to 5x.

· 9 min read

Guide

How to Go Long and Short on Prediction Markets

Learn how to go long and short on prediction markets like Polymarket. Going long means buying shares that profit when an outcome happens; going short means betting against it. With leverage up to 5x, a 10% move becomes a 50% gain - but liquidation risk requires careful position sizing.

· 7 min read

Guide

How to Short on Polymarket: The Complete Guide

Short on Polymarket by buying NO shares - your loss is capped at your investment with no margin calls. Learn execution mechanics, when to short, leverage amplification up to 5x, and risk management strategies for prediction market shorting.

· 7 min read

Guide

Lending on Polymarket: How to Earn Yield on Your USDC

You can't lend on Polymarket directly — but you can earn yield from Polymarket activity by supplying USDC to the lending protocol built on top of it. Here's how.

· 7 min read

Guide

Why Prediction Market Lending Beats DeFi Token Farming: Real Yield from Polymarket Leverage Traders

Prediction market lending generates yield from leverage traders paying real interest on borrowed USDC - not inflating token rewards. Here is why Polymarket lending beats DeFi token farming for sustainable returns.

· 7 min read

Analysis

Polymarket Perps Explained — and Why It's Different From Leverage on Event Contracts

Polymarket launched Perps — but that's leverage on prices, not on event outcomes. The two keep getting conflated. Here's the clean distinction.

· 5 min read

Strategy

How to Hedge a Polymarket Position With Leverage

Every Polymarket market has a built-in mirror. Here's how to use it to lock gains, cap losses, and survive volatility on a leveraged position.

· 6 min read

Overview

PredMart: The Lending Protocol for Polymarket (Video)

Meet PredMart — the non-custodial lending protocol on Polymarket: borrow against your shares, earn yield lending USDC, or trade with leverage.

· Video walkthrough