Rich Jaycobs
Head of Market Expansion at Polymarket
Rich Jaycobs is head of market development at Polymarket. Previously, he was President of Cantor Futures Exchange and was involved in the registration and operation of more than a dozen innovative financial derivatives exchanges and clearing houses.
Current Roles
News Mentions
70x on $KINS https://x.com/ninja_caller/status/2058095926028173576
Donald Trump is making protecting prediction markets a priority. His son is a paid strategic advisor for Kalshi, and a major investor and advisor for Polymarket. The Trump administration is using taxpayer money to protect his family’s investments. This is what corruption looks like.
This is the FUD cycle until they drop Mythos and all you need a token budget just to not get robbed by North Korea Wild times, I'm balls long https://x.com/polymarket/status/2059265311640019242
Polymarket is great but the reality is they never truly solved the core challenge of prediction markets which is market settlement and oracles. It's all very handwavy and the reality is a few people are deciding how to settle billions of dollars a year https://nypost.com/2026/05/26/business/nine-a
RT @CoinDeskPodcast: Hyperliquid expands into prediction markets to challenge Polymarket, stablecoins now exceed the FX reserves of 95 coun…
28% chance a U.S. national Bitcoin reserve is created. https://polymarket.com/event/us-national-bitcoin-reserve-before-2027/us-national-bitcoin-reserve-before-2027?via=x-afr2
Indonesia Blocks Polymarket After Bets on President’s Early Departure
28% chance Mamdani freezes rents. https://polymarket.com/event/will-mamdani-freeze-nyc-rents-before-2027?via=x-afr2
Spain Blocks Prediction Markets Kalshi and Polymarket for Alleged Gambling Law Violations
LATEST: 🇪🇸 Polymarket and Kalshi are now blocked in Spain after regulators launched disciplinary proceedings, claiming they operated without licenses under Spanish gambling law. https://t.co/LjlpFbU