Polymarket runs on US news, in US English, settled by US dollars. Eighty-seven percent of humanity reads the news in something else.
Babel is the agent that reads non-English news, reformulates it as a well-formed binary market with an explicit resolution rule, and posts it to Polymarket V2 with your builder code attached.
Five Circle primitives. One Arc settlement layer. A reasoning trace pinned to IPFS for every market on the planet. This is the agora the original Athenians were imagining.
A real multi-step agent loop. Detect, translate, judge, synthesize, critique, dedup, post. Each step Zod-typed and traced to Langfuse. Inference paid by the agent itself, in USDC, via Gateway Nanopayments.
The mythic tower was meant to reach heaven. Ours is meant to reach every news source on earth. Each course of stone is a language pack; each face is a market vertical.
Drag the tower. It spins. Every face you can read is a market Polymarket cannot list, because Polymarket cannot read it.
Builder codes route a slice of every USDC fill back to the wallet that first translated the question. Babel keeps 20 percent; the remaining float parks in USYC until weekly payout.
A trader in Lagos pastes a Yoruba article about a subsidy decision. Source language auto-detected.
The agent loops through seven steps, paying ~$0.0009 USDC for its own inference via Nanopayments.
The question hits Polymarket V2 with the translator's builder code embedded in the signed order.
Accrued fees move from Polygon to Arc via CCTP. The float subscribes into USYC until payout.
Sub-second AttributionEscrow payout on Arc. The translator's passkey wallet credits in USDC or EURC.
"All things that are exchanged must be somehow comparable."
Built for the Agora Agents Hackathon, Canteen x Circle x Arc. Solo build, Lagos / NYC. Submission 25 May 2026.