Polymarket Just Hit $4 Billion in Volume on 5-Minute Markets: Is Chainlink the Infrastructure Behind the Next DeFi Explosion?

$153 million in daily volume. $4 billion total. $200 million in the first week alone. Polymarket’s 5-minute prediction markets have gone from experimental product to one of the highest-velocity trading venues in DeFi – and Chainlink oracles are the reason any of it works.The volume surge, confirmed by on-chain data shared across crypto analytics channels, represents a roughly 400% increase from earlier ba…