Polymarket’s latest pop-up is a sports bar for watching the news
Polymarket took over a bar near the White House, for a promotional event showcasing the prediction market’s vision of betting on current events as a new form of entertainment.The Situation Room, as Polymarket is calling it, will be open for a single weekend, with rows of TVs on the walls and above the bar, showing newscasts and financial tickers. A human-sized globe, covered in screens displayed the odds from Polymarket’s exchange, where users bet on the outcomes of elections, sports and military conflict."We want to be a part of the conversation in DC, and where better to have a conversation than in a bar,” the company’s chief legal officer, Neil Kumar, said at an event for reporters outside the venue.
