Paribu, Türkiye’s leading digital asset platform, has integrated Polymarket, opening Türkiye’s first access to prediction markets. Starting today, through the DeFi section of the Paribu app, users can trade curated outcome markets directly from their existing balance, with no separate wallet app and no new account.
Prediction markets, also called event-based or outcome markets, let users take a position on whether a future event will happen. The price of each contract reflects the probability the market assigns to that outcome, which makes these markets a real-time read on geopolitics, macroeconomics, and culture.
Why now
Prediction markets have grown quickly. Monthly transaction volume rose from $1.2 billion in early 2025 to over $20 billion by January 2026, with more than 800,000 unique wallets taking part each month (TRM Labs, March 2026). Türkiye has consistently adopted new financial instruments early, and until now these markets had no real distribution here.
Why Polymarket
Prediction markets, also called event-based markets, operate on a straightforward premise: prices are probabilities. When participants trade on the likelihood of a future event, the resulting price reflects the market’s collective view of that outcome, aggregating information, expectations, and real-time signals into a single number. Geopolitics, macroeconomics, and culture now drive the majority of trading activity, positioning prediction markets as real-time indicators of global events.
Polymarket is the world’s largest prediction market. Its markets run on-chain, settle via smart contracts, and are open to anyone with an internet connection. No central party controls outcomes or holds user funds. Its market depth across geopolitics, economics, and culture made it the right foundation to build on. Paribu’s role is to make that accessible through a curated integration.
How it works inside Paribu
Paribu is the interface layer. Users open positions from the app, using the balance they already hold, while execution and settlement happen on-chain through Polymarket. Every position stays in the user’s self-custodial wallet throughout, and Paribu does not hold or intermediate it. There is no separate wallet app to install, no new account to open, and no gas token to acquire before a first trade.
The self-custody behind the integration builds on the know-how Paribu developed with ColdShield®, its proprietary digital asset custody technology, and on the passkey-based account abstraction Clave brought in-house after joining Paribu. The result is an on-chain product delivered inside the app users already trust.
What users can access
Through the DeFi section of the Paribu app, users can trade curated prediction markets across categories including geopolitics, macroeconomics, and culture, with on-chain execution and settlement and full self-custody throughout. Positions are funded from the existing Paribu balance and can be monitored and managed directly within the app.
Not every Polymarket contract is made available. Each market is reviewed against Paribu’s selection criteria, covering contract integrity, liquidity depth, and risk profile, before it appears in the app, so every market a user sees has cleared that review. Risk disclosure is present at every step, and the market itself stays fully on-chain.
Disclaimer
Prediction market contracts accessible through Paribu’s DeFi integration are not offered as a service of Paribu’s regulated exchange. These contracts are accessed via the embedded unhosted DeFi wallet, with execution and settlement occurring on-chain, outside the scope of Paribu’s regulated platform activity.
