Ever thought about how prediction markets work? On Polymarket, it's beautifully simple yet powerful. Here's the core mechanic: every market is basically a binary contract—when outcomes are YES and NO, they must always add up to 1.0, or 100% combined.

What does this mean in practice? If you believe something will happen, you buy YES shares. Someone else thinks otherwise, they grab NO shares. The price of each tells you the crowd's implied probability. As new information flows in, prices shift, creating this dynamic tension between bullish and bearish bets.

That's the whole game: prediction markets letting people put real money behind their convictions, and the aggregate of all those bets often turns out to be surprisingly accurate forecasting tools. Whether it's political outcomes, sports events, or market movements, Polymarket lets you participate in collective wisdom formation in real-time.