Polymarket vs Pots Market: What's the Difference?

If Pots Market uses Polymarket’s order book, are they competitors or the same thing? Neither, exactly. The honest answer: Pots Market is built on Polymarket, not against it. Here’s what that means.

Not a rival — a Builder

Pots Market is a Polymarket Builder: an application that routes orders into Polymarket’s own order book rather than running a separate one. So the core trading layer is shared, not duplicated:

• Same liquidity — your orders match against the full depth of Polymarket’s Central Limit Order Book.
• Same settlement — trades settle on Polygon through the same audited CTF Exchange contract.
• Same tokens — you get the same ERC1155 outcome tokens, redeemable the same way.
• Same prices — there’s no separate order book, so prices are identical.

That’s why this isn’t a “which has better liquidity” comparison. The liquidity is the same.

So what’s actually different?

The Builder layer adds things on top of the shared core — never between you and settlement:

	Polymarket (direct)	Pots Market (Builder)
Order book	Polymarket CLOB	Same Polymarket CLOB
Settlement	CTF Exchange (Polygon)	Same CTF Exchange
Custody	Non-custodial	Non-custodial (EIP-712)
POTS token rewards	—	Yes
Tier rebates / extra UI	—	Yes
On-chain Builder attribution	—	builderCode on every order
Linked DeFi treasury	—	Pots Money ecosystem

In short: you trade the same markets with the same depth and the same self-custody, and Pots Market layers on token rewards, rebates, and a connected treasury economy.

What stays identical (and why that’s the point)

The things that matter most for safety are inherited, not reinvented:

• Non-custodial — every order is EIP-712 signed by your key; the Builder can’t touch your funds.
• Audited settlement — the CTF Exchange is the same battle-tested contract, audited by ChainSecurity.
• Verifiable attribution — every Pots Market order carries an on-chain builderCode, so you can confirm it was routed correctly.

You’re not trusting a new, unproven exchange. You’re using proven infrastructure with extra features bolted on top.

Which should you use?

If you only want to place trades, both reach the same markets. Pots Market makes sense if you also want POTS token rewards, tier rebates, and access to the wider Pots Money ecosystem — earned on activity you were already doing, with custody and settlement unchanged.

See exactly how orders, prices, and settlement work in how Pots Market works.