Polymarket adds five-minute BTC and DOGE crypto price prediction markets
Polymarket has listed short-duration crypto prediction markets on both its US-regulated and international platforms. On November 7, 2026, it opened five-minute up-or-down contracts for Bitcoin and Dogecoin. On November 9, it added a Bitcoin price range market for 9:00 a.m. ET that day, plus a Bitcoin daily close market for November 8 that has since resolved. The five-minute contracts display real-time odds in Polymarket's standard event-contract format.
Five-minute crypto contracts turn Polymarket into a venue for leveraged-free scalp trading, not just event hedging. That duration density matters because Kalshi and Robinhood currently route much of their crypto volume through partner venues with active legal exposure; any partner outage forces user migration within days.
Polymarket's direct CFTC license through QCX LLC lets it own the full stack. The platform that standardizes deep, recurring crypto reference contracts across durations keeps capital sticky rather than rotating. Kalshi and Polymarket's record $2.7 billion weekly crypto volume is the prize for whoever locks that structure in first.