Polymarket Reaches Türkiye Through Paribu Integration, the First Exchange-native Integration of Prediction Markets

Paribu, Türkiye's largest digital asset exchange, has integrated Polymarket into its app as of July 1, 2026, giving Turkish users their first structured access to prediction markets. Trading is live through the app's DeFi section using existing account balances — no separate wallet, no new account, and no gas token required.

The timing reflects where the market is. Per TRM Labs data from March 2026, monthly prediction market transaction volume climbed from $1.2 billion in early 2025 to over $20 billion by January 2026, with more than 800,000 unique wallets active per month. Türkiye, despite being an early adopter of digital financial instruments, had no real domestic distribution for these markets until now. The Paribu integration changes that.

Polymarket is the largest prediction market by volume globally. Its contracts run on-chain and settle via smart contract, with no central party controlling outcomes or holding user funds. Markets span geopolitics, macroeconomics, and culture — the categories that now drive the bulk of platform activity and position prediction markets as real-time indicators of collective expectations around global events. Paribu's role in the integration is not to run those markets but to make them accessible through a curated, exchange-native experience.

Technically, Paribu acts as the interface layer. When a user opens a position, execution and settlement happen on-chain through Polymarket's infrastructure. Positions remain in a self-custodial wallet throughout — Paribu does not hold or intermediate them at any point. The custody architecture draws on two internal capabilities: ColdShield®, Paribu's proprietary digital asset custody technology, and the passkey-based account abstraction system developed by Clave, which joined Paribu and brought that infrastructure in-house. The result is a fully on-chain product running inside an app environment users already have access to, without the friction typically associated with DeFi entry.

Not every Polymarket contract is available. Each market is reviewed against Paribu's selection criteria — covering contract integrity, liquidity depth, and risk profile — before it appears in the app. Risk disclosure is included at every step of the trading flow. Positions are funded from the user's existing Paribu balance and can be monitored and managed within the app.

One distinction worth noting for users: prediction market contracts accessed through Paribu's DeFi integration are not part of Paribu's regulated exchange. Per Paribu's own disclosure, they are accessed via an embedded unhosted DeFi wallet, with execution and settlement occurring on-chain, outside the scope of Paribu's regulated platform activity. Additionally, Paribu's Options feature is currently temporarily unavailable.

For the prediction markets industry, the more significant data point is the distribution model itself. Embedding Polymarket access inside an established exchange — with existing user bases, balance infrastructure, and compliance frameworks — removes most of the friction that has historically kept prediction markets niche in emerging markets. If the model works in Türkiye, it is a replicable template for regional exchange integrations elsewhere.