Polymarket
Two entities, one brand
Four pages on Polymarket, starting with the one distinction everything else depends on.
Polymarket US is QCX LLC, a CFTC designated contract market. Polymarket.com paid a $1.4 million CFTC penalty in January 2022 and was ordered to wind down its non-compliant markets. Which one you are on decides almost everything else.
Referrals
Polymarket invite code: 10% of fees, with a gate
Polymarket referrals pay 10% of net taker fees direct and 5% indirect, behind a $10,000 lifetime volume gate, ending at 30 days.
Trust
Is Polymarket safe? What we verified, Aug 2026
Three questions, answered separately: is your money safe, can you open a position, will you get paid. Geoblock list read at source 5 Aug 2026.
Entities
Polymarket US and Polymarket.com are not the same
Polymarket US is QCX LLC, a CFTC designated contract market in Letter 26-14. Polymarket.com paid a $1.4m penalty in 2022.
Review
Polymarket review: the fee table and the US catch
Polymarket charges takers 0.00 to 0.07 by category and makers nothing. The US is close-only on frontend and API. Fee table, worked math, sources.
Read the entity page first. Nearly every confused answer about Polymarket legality comes from someone answering about one entity while the reader is asking about the other.