No More Waitlist For U.S. Polymarket Users

• Polymarket has removed its waitlist for U.S. users
• The platform is now open to any and all U.S. customers who want to trade
• Despite the waitlist, Polymarket is the second most popular prediction market in the country

Polymarket’s platform is now available for any U.S. customers who want to trade.

First reported by InGame, the prediction market company no longer has a waitlist for its online platform. When Polymarket re-launched in the U.S. this past October, users were required to receive a registration code from the company to to sign up for the platform.

The sign-up process is now available to any U.S. customer and no longer requires a registration code.

Polymarket Fully Back in U.S.

Polymarket’s return to the U.S. started in July 2025 when Shayne Coplan, Founder and CEO of Polymarket, announced the acquisition of QCX and QC Clearing LLC, a CFTC-licensed derivatives-exchange, for $112 million.

It began offering event contracts in the U.S. again in October, albeit on a limited basis for invited customers.

“Polymarket is the largest prediction market globally and has become synonymous with understanding the probability of current events,” Coplan said at the time of the QCX acquisition. “Demand is greater than ever — not just in user growth and trading volume, but in how mainstream audiences are turning to Polymarket to separate signal from noise, bias, and speculation. Now, with the acquisition of QCEX, we are laying the foundation to bring Polymarket home — re-entering the U.S. as a fully regulated and compliant platform that will allow Americans to trade their opinions.”

When visiting Polymarket’s homepage now customers are greeted with the company’s current event contract prices, rather than a prompt asking them to input a registration code.

Polymarket had not been available to U.S. customers since 2022, when the CFTC fined the predictions market company $1.4 million for operating an illegal, unregistered or non-designated facility for event-based binary options online trading contracts, or “event markets.”

In addition to the fine, the CFTC issued a cease-and-desist to Polymarket for violating the Commodity Exchange Act and CFTC regulations.

The CFTC declared Polymarket had been operating an illegal, unregistered facility offering event market contracts since 2020.

Polymarket Second Most Popular Platform

Despite only allowing certain U.S. users to access its markets, Polymarket overtook Crypto.com in March to become the second-most popular prediction market platform in the country by total volume.

While Polymarket’s total volume should increase further without the waitlist, it still has a long way to go to catch Kalshi’s volume of business. Kalshi typically sees nearly $500 million in total daily volume.

At its height, Polymarket’s waitlist exceeded nearly one million users.