Prediction market platform Polymarket suffered a major outage on Aug. 31, temporarily stopping trading across the platform. According to the company’s status page, the issue began at around 6:30 UTC and affected the Trading API, or central limit order book (CLOB), with delayed responses when reading open orders. As a result, trading was fully paused.
The website itself remained accessible, and market data could still be viewed, but users were unable to place orders during the disruption. Polymarket said it was working on a fix and set a target of restoring trading no later than 10:00 UTC. Before full service resumes, the platform plans to enter a 15-minute cancel-only mode, allowing users to cancel orders but not submit new ones.
The company added that its other systems, including the website, data services, and authentication, were operating normally during the incident.
Polymarket temporarily halted trading on Aug. 31 after a major outage hit the platform.
Its official status page said the Trading API, or central limit order book (CLOB), began experiencing delayed responses when reading open orders at around 6:30 UTC. Trading was fully paused as a result. The website remained accessible and market data was still available, but users could not place orders.
Polymarket said it was working to resolve the issue and was targeting a trading recovery by 10:00 UTC at the latest. Before reopening, the platform will enter a 15-minute cancel-only mode.
The company also said other systems, including the website, data services, and authentication, were operating normally.
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