Polymarket expands short-duration crypto contracts to ETH, SOL, and XRP
Polymarket has launched up/down price prediction markets for Ethereum (ETH), Solana (SOL), and Ripple (XRP) on its US app. The contracts settle on 15-minute, hourly, and daily timeframes, letting traders bet whether each token will finish above or below its current level. The markets are live at the platform's crypto-dedicated URL. The addition follows Polymarket's earlier Bitcoin contracts and marks a broader push into short-duration crypto price products beyond traditional event contracts.
Polymarket is now running short-duration crypto contracts across four major tokens, putting it in direct competition with Coinbase's newly launched 15-minute crypto markets and perpetual futures venues for the same trader base. Each platform's settlement speed and collateral rules will determine where crypto-native volume flows. Polymarket's 15-minute Bitcoin launch ten days ago offered an early test; this three-token expansion shows the platform is doubling down on the format.
For traders, the product overlap with Coinbase creates a genuine venue choice on identical underlyings with different contract mechanics. The winner will set the standard for how prediction-market infrastructure handles rapid settlement cycles, while the loser risks seeing its crypto traders drift back to offshore futures platforms that already own this behavior.
Polymarket now runs short-duration crypto contracts across four tokens, joining Coinbase's live 15-minute crypto price prediction markets for US users and Kalshi's parallel Bitcoin offerings in a three-way race to convert perpetual-futures traders onto regulated prediction-market rails.