Started out in @Cosmos but @shayne_coplan built @polymarket on Polygon.
Why Polygon (circa 2020) - speculative on my part
🔸Cheap EVM blockspace on Polygon -> fast, low-fee trading.
🔸Plug-and-play infra: UMA Optimistic Oracle (Mid-2021) live on Polygon; Chainlink tooling already there.
🔸EVM rails ready: MetaMask, USDC, bridges, dev tooling -> shorter time-to-market.
Why not Cosmos (then):
🔸Liquidity/user fragmentation across zones (we know how this played out)
🔸USDC + oracles weren’t plug-and-play in 2021 (native USDC and broader oracle options arrived later).
🔸App-chain overhead: validators, ops, bridging - more to bootstrap for a trading app.
TL;DR: Not a rejection of Cosmos tech - just EVM pragmatism when users, liquidity, and tooling were concentrated on Polygon.
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