Polymarket Users Debate Ukrainian President Zelenskyy’s Outfit

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenkyy at NATO meeting in the Netherlands 24th June became the central point of a steep dispute between Polymarket Betors.

User on polymarket, crypt forecasting platform, formed The betting market that asked if Zelenkskyy would wear a suit before July. To settle the bet, a photo or video must show that Zeletskyy wears a suit between 22 and 30 June.

The market has accumulated the volume of nearly $ 79 million. The result initially landed on “yes”, but since then it has been challenged twice and is now waiting for the final decision.

1 July Polymarket said he was aware of the dispute on this market and that at that time “the consensus of credible news did not confirm that Zeletskyy wore a suit.”

Arguments about what a suit is doing

The debate on the Zeletskyy ensemble has those on social media interrogation Whether it is a suit, a suitable jacket with a collar shirt and long pants, or if coaches disqualify it from a suit classification.

Those who claim that it is all made of a similar substance, with similar colors and has a formal appearance as a suit, with cuts and style are irrelevant.

Those who say it is a black shirt and a black jacket that resembles an informal jacket rather than a traditional jacket, and its coaches do not match the rest of the clothes, so it is not technically full of traditional suit.

Community PolyMarket Account on X, Intel PolyMarket, classified Ukrainian President as a suit.

Chatgpt, when he asked Cointlegraph, said the clothes were not considered a suit because it lacks key elements of a traditional suit. It called a military field jacket or tactical coat.

President Zeletskyy in a suit last night pic.twitter.com/uo3rhuzkq1

– Polymarket Intel (@PolyMarketintel) June 25, 2025

Meanwhile Canadian writer and commentator of the fashion industry of men Derek Guy, also known as Menswear Guy on X, did not do much to resolve the dispute, saying 26th June thinks that Zelenkyy’s clothing is a “suit even a suit”.

The second time is the magic

This is not the first time that Zelskyy’s clothing caused problems on the polymarket. Another similar market of bets CLOSED May 31 and caused a debate about whether a similar -looking Zelenkyy outfit wore a suit at a meeting in Germany that month.

Polymarket eventually found that it was not a suit. Derek Guy also considered this debate declare The fact that Zeletskyy was technically wearing a suit that is defined as “just clothing where the jacket and pants were cut out of the same fabric.”

Zeletskyy was fired for not carrying a suit for a formal meeting with world leaders.

Zeletskyy himself said he would wear a suit when war against Russia ends, politico reported March 22.

Report 5 March Ukrainian Media Drawings he explained The fact that the Ukrainian President prefers more occasional military style clothing because the war is still ongoing, and if “dresses a suit, it means that it agrees that the war has ended”.

Polymarket discussion

This year the polymarket was in the center of several other controversies, such as the proposed Tiktok ban in January, with the arguments of the technical details of the outcome because The platform has been disabled but still available For use in the closure of betting.

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Polymarket employs blockchain Oracles UMA protocol for external data to settle market results and verify the real world events.

Uma faced accusations of the past, or someone manipulating a fortune teller as in the case of a bet on a $ 7 million to Ukraine’s mineral agreement in March.

Meanwhile message on Thursday from Economic database driven by blockchain Truf.network argued The fact that the demonstration of the truth may be complicated because the whole market relies on “data confidence” and is often “fragmented, unverified and too often manipulated”.

“It is not about who decides the truth, but whether everyone can verify it. When no one can verify the price that won, what was the score, or even if it was raining yesterday, the market itself collapses,” he said.

“If a person verifies the result of betting on the game, the truth becomes a questionable.”

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