Polymarket: restricted countries
Polymarket now has Perps as well as prediction markets. We read two of their own documents on 4 September 2026. The table is the platform geoblock (the wider list, the one that decides a click). Perps docs name a shorter set: United States, Canada, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Syria, and Crimea / Donetsk / Luhansk as places, not country codes. Crimea, Donetsk and Luhansk did not resolve to ISO codes on that page. Malta (Sports Only) is scoped, not a country. Not a roundup.
Restricted countries, as read on 2026-09-04
Read from docs.polymarket.com/api-reference/geoblock, never from a summary. The Perps-only bullet list is shorter; this table is the platform list.
| Country | ISO |
|---|---|
| Australia | AU |
| Belgium | BE |
| Burundi | BI |
| Brazil | BR |
| Belarus | BY |
| Canada | CA |
| DR Congo | CD |
| Central African Republic | CF |
| Cuba | CU |
| Germany | DE |
| Ethiopia | ET |
| France | FR |
| United Kingdom (UK) | GB |
| Ireland | IE |
| Iraq | IQ |
| Iran | IR |
| Italy | IT |
| Japan | JP |
| North Korea | KP |
| Lebanon | LB |
| Libya | LY |
| Myanmar | MM |
| Nicaragua | NI |
| Netherlands | NL |
| New Zealand | NZ |
| Poland | PL |
| Russia | RU |
| Sudan | SD |
| Singapore | SG |
| Slovakia | SK |
| Somalia | SO |
| South Sudan | SS |
| Syria | SY |
| Thailand | TH |
| Taiwan | TW |
| Ukraine | UA |
| United States Minor Outlying Islands | UM |
| United States | US |
| Venezuela | VE |
| Yemen | YE |
| Zimbabwe | ZW |
Restrictions that name part of a country
These do not reduce to a country code and are recorded verbatim rather than widened to the whole country.
- Malta (Sports Only)
Questions
The ones worth answering plainly.
- Do you treat Polymarket as a perp DEX?
- Yes, on this board: they ship Perps. The table is still the platform geoblock, which is wider than the Perps-only list. Payment does not rewrite either list.
- Is Polymarket blocked in the United States?
- Yes. US is on both the platform geoblock and the Perps list we read on 2026-09-04.
- Do you earn from Polymarket?
- 10% of net fees from direct referrals, 5% from indirect, for 30 days or until Platinum, through Gold. We start earning after $10,000 own lifetime volume. Paid daily in pUSD.
Us: 10% of net fees direct, 5% indirect. 30 days or until Platinum, through Gold. We earn after $10,000 own volume. Their geoblock is theirs.
What we have observed
No material change in their list since the reading of 2026-09-04.
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