Updated September 11, 2026
Polymarket has launched Squads, a new social feature that brings private group chats directly into the app.
Users can discuss markets, share positions and Combos, see what friends are trading, and trade from shared picks — all without leaving Polymarket.
Editor's notes
“People are constantly sharing picks, screenshots and opinions in group chats, so bringing that behavior directly into Polymarket makes sense. The interesting part is whether users actually want to move those conversations onto the platform, but if they do, this could make prediction markets feel much more accessible to casual sports fans.”
Think of Squads as a private prediction-market group chat.
Users can invite friends, discuss markets and share trades without constantly jumping between Polymarket, iMessage, WhatsApp, Discord or whatever else the group normally uses.
Inside a Squad, members can:
One important detail is that everyone still trades through their own account.
There is no shared bankroll or pooled money. Squads is really about the conversation and discovery side of the product rather than turning the group into one trading account.
That is probably the most interesting part of the launch.
Polymarket is not really inventing a new behavior here. Sports fans already do this every day. You know how it goes: Someone sends a pick into the group. Someone else disagrees. Another person sends a screenshot of the price. Before long, half the group has an opinion on the same game.
What Polymarket is trying to do is remove a step from that process. Instead of seeing a trade in a group chat, opening Polymarket separately and searching for the market, users can now do all of it in one place.
Perhaps this is another step that makes prediction markets more mainstream.
Trading on prediction markets is different from your regular sportsbook. Adding a social layer makes the experience feel more familiar.
The timing is not exactly subtle.
Squads launched alongside Polymarket HQ, the company’s new football-season marketing campaign featuring names including LeBron James, Eli Manning, Derek Jeter, Sue Bird, Richard Sherman, Spike Lee and Rajon Rondo.
The strategy is easy enough to see.
Football is also probably the ideal sport for testing whether the idea actually works.
NFL Sundays and college football Saturdays are already built around constant conversation, second-screen viewing and people sending each other picks throughout the day. If Polymarket can bring even part of that behavior into its own app, Squads could become more important than it first appears.
This says quite a lot about where Polymarket wants to take its U.S. business.
Prediction markets have traditionally been sold around probabilities, prices and the idea that markets can tell us what is likely to happen next.
Polymarket is now pushing harder on the entertainment side.
That is especially relevant in sports, where prediction markets are increasingly competing for the attention of the same people using DraftKings, FanDuel and other sportsbooks.
Sports has always been social. People share parlays, send screenshots, argue over picks and celebrate wins together.
Squads is Polymarket’s attempt to build some of that directly into the product. Whether people actually want to move their sports group chats onto Polymarket is another question.
But the idea itself makes sense. Polymarket does not just want users checking prices anymore. It wants predicting and trading on games to become something people do together.
