Polymarket launches 15-minute ‘Up or Down’ contracts for the price of gold, plans to add stock and forex

Have you heard of “15-minute markets”? They are a novel type of prediction market that lets you wager whether the price of an asset like Bitcoin will go up or down in the next quarter hour. The offerings have proved surprisingly popular in the crypto realm, where these short duration bets have already accounted for $11 billion in trading volume on Polymarket. Now, the platform is expanding its 15 minute markets to other categories of assets that include, starting today, the price of gold and silver.