Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy at NATO meeting on June 24 in the Netherlands became the focal point of a fierce dispute between polymarket concrete.
User for polymarket, a predictive platform based on cryptography, created The plant market, which asked if Zelenskyy was carrying a suit before July. To solve the plant, photo or video must show Zelenskyy in a suit between May 22 and June 30.
The market collected almost $ 79 million of the volume. The result initially landed on “yes”, but since then it was questioned twice, and now he is waiting for the final decision.
On July 1, Polymarket said that he was aware of the dispute on this market and that at that time “the consensus of credible reporting did not confirm that Zelenskyy had a suit.”
Arguments about what the suit is doing
The debate about the Zelenskyy team has those in social media questioning Regardless of whether it is a suit, a fitted blunder with a shirt with a collar and long pants, or coaches disqualify her from the classification of the lawsuit.
People say that everything is made of similar fabric, with similar colors and have a formal appearance, like a suit, cuts and unimportant style.
Limidious say that this is a black shirt and a black jacket that resembles a free jacket, not a conventional jacket, and its trainers do not fit the rest of the outfit, which makes it technically full of conventional suit.
The community run by the Polimarket Account to X, Intel PolyMarket, classified The outfit of the Ukrainian president as a suit.
Chatgpt, when asked by CointeLgrapt, said that the outfit was not considered a suit because there are no key elements of a conventional suit. He called it a field jacket in a military style or a tactical coat.
President Zelenskyy in a suit last night pic.twitter.com/uo3rhuzkq1
– Intel polymarket (@polamarketintel) June 25, 2025
Meanwhile, a Canadian writer and commentator of the Derek Guy fashion industry, also known as men’s clothing on X, did not do much to solve the dispute, saying On June 26, he believes that Zelenskyy’s outfit is “both a suit and not a suit.”
Charm for the second time
This is not the first time Zelenskyy’s outfit caused problems with polymarket. Another similar plant market Closed May 31 and caused a debate about whether he wore a similar outfit of Zelenskyy at a meeting in Germany this month.
PolyMarket finally determined that it was not a suit. Derek Guy also considered this debate announce That Zelenskyy was technically wearing a suit, which is defined as “only clothing in which the jacket and pants were cut from the same fabric.”
Zelenskyy was blown up for not carrying a suit for formal meetings with world leaders.
Zelenskyy himself said he was wearing a suit again after the war with Russia, Politico Reported March 22.
Report from March 5 of the Ukrainian media point The Kyiv Independent also explained The fact that the Ukrainian president prefers a more free military -style outfit, because the war is still ongoing, and if “introduces a suit, it means that the war is over.”
Polymarket controversy
This year, Polymarket was in the center of several other controversies, such as the proposed ban on Tiktok in January, with arguments about the technical details of the result, because the platform was banned, but still available for operate after closing the bookmakers market.
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PolyMarket uses the Oracle Blockchain Protocol UMA for external data to regulate market results and verify events in the real world.
Uma faced the allegations that in the past he would go to the villain or someone manipulates the oracle, as in the case of a plant over $ 7 million in mineral Ukraine in March.
Meanwhile, a report from Thursday from the economic database of blockchain truf.network he argued This proving the truth can be hard because the whole market is based on “trust in data” and is often “crushed, unverified and too often manipulative.”
“It’s not about who decides about the truth, but can everyone verify it. When no one can verify the price, who won, what the result was, and even if it was falling yesterday, the market will break down,” he said.
“If a person verifying the result also puts on the game, the truth becomes debatable.”
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