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The very account that earned ~$400,000 on the bet 'Maduro out' turned out to be funded through Coinbase just a few hours before the events in Venezuela. The account had a total of 4 forecasts, and almost all were maximally accurate.

On-chain analysis showed that the money on Polymarket came from two wallets that had no activity prior, except for funding from Coinbase and depositing on Polymarket. One of them was funded with 252 SOL, and almost the same amount (~252.9 SOL) came into Coinbase about 23 hours before this — a coincidence of almost 1 in 1.

To truly understand how Polymarket works, you need to look beyond odds and percentages.
The real foundation lies in who makes the final decision on a market outcome — and how.
Polymarket itself does not decide outcomes. Instead, it relies on different oracle mechanisms, chosen based on the type and nature of each market. If you’re trading or betting without understanding this layer, you’re playing blind.
Let’s break it down.
1. Markets Team — Human Resolution for Clear Outcomes
Some markets are resolved manually by Polymarket’s Markets Team.
This applies when outcomes are objectively verifiable and leave little room for interpretation.
Typical examples:
Clear factual outcomes (yes/no events)
Official decisions and appointments
Polymarket US-based markets
This approach is used when trusted public sources can definitively confirm the result.
2. Chainlink — Automation for Data-Driven Markets
For markets that rely on numbers, prices, or short-term data, Polymarket uses Chainlink.
Chainlink handles:
Numeric and price-based markets
Short-term markets
Automatic resolution via price feeds
This removes human discretion and ensures fast, trust-minimized settlement — perfect for traders who value precision and speed.
3. UMA Optimistic Oracle — Handling Ambiguity and Disputes
When markets involve political, legal, or interpretative outcomes, Polymarket turns to the UMA Optimistic Oracle.
UMA is used for:
Political and legal events
Ambiguous or interpretative questions
International Polymarket markets
Dispute resolution via decentralized UMA voting
If someone challenges a market resolution, UMA token holders vote on the correct outcome. This makes the system decentralized, transparent, and resistant to manipulation — but also slower and more complex.
Why This Matters for Traders
Different oracle mechanisms = different risk profiles.
Chainlink markets → speed and objectivity
Markets Team → clarity but centralized trust
UMA markets → decentralization, but potential disputes
If you don’t understand how a market is resolved, you don’t fully understand the risk you’re taking.
In prediction markets, the oracle is the real counterparty.
Trade smart. Know the rules before you place the bet.

After Aster and Lighter issued their tokens during contract trading, the prediction market is expected to be the next hot track. The leader in the prediction market will be a species worth hundreds of billions. If there is a 10% airdrop, that would also be a billion-level cake, surpassing contracts in comparison.
In simple terms, a prediction market is a voting market without idle chatter, where you can spend money to predict whether the Federal Reserve will lower interest rates next month, which NBA team will win, and how many tweets Musk will post next week, among other things. All of these require spending money to vote; if you vote correctly, you make money, and if you vote incorrectly, you lose money.

The hottest topics in recent months have been DEX and prediction tracks
And the leading Polymarket for predicting tracks is expected to issue tokens in Q1 of next year

For top-tier markets to issue tokens, it must be a big deal, so try to trade a bit every month. There are also some messages that emphasize trading volume and winning rates. Those with capability should aim for over 1wu in trading volume each month; otherwise, they can use them in the PM4% market, using split to enjoy a 4% risk-free APR.#Polymatket

Confirmation of the native token POLY (based on $POL ) and the announcement of the airdrop marks the transition of Polymarket from the status of a niche platform for political prediction markets to a model of a full-fledged on-chain ecosystem with an internal economy. Until this moment, the value of the platform was expressed primarily through the liquidity of prediction markets, the depth of bets, and the informational effect of pricing probabilities of political and macro events. The emergence of the token institutionalizes this mechanism: now participation in the markets turns not only into a speculative game on probabilities but also into a mechanism for accumulating a stake in the infrastructure of predictive markets as a class.

In the past, everyone was trading spot and playing contracts,
but smart money has quietly flowed into prediction markets.
👇 An article that clearly explains the play of 'zero-risk arbitrage + airdrop ambush'.
1️⃣ What is a prediction market?
Betting with funds on whether an event will occur. Participants bet on the outcomes they believe in, and the prices are aggregated in real-time to form a consensus of public probability.
For example:
• Will ETH drop below $3400 in October? • What decision will the Federal Reserve make in October? • What will the price of Bitcoin reach in 2025?
Each event is broken down into a 'YES / NO' bet.