tldr; Three digital wallets made over $630,000 on Polymarket by betting on the arrest of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, raising suspicions of insider trading. The wallets were newly created, pre-funded, and targeted contracts tied to Maduro shortly before the news broke. This incident has prompted U.S. lawmakers to propose legislation, such as the Public Integrity in Financial Prediction Markets Act of 2026, to ban federal officials from trading on prediction markets tied to political or policy outcomes to prevent misuse of non-public information.
*This summary is auto generated by a bot and not meant to replace reading the original article. As always, DYOR.
setokaiba22 on
Suspicions of insider trading .. given this took nearly the entire world by surprise I think we can account ‘suspicions’ as being an understatement
-irx on
“Show me the charts and I’ll tell you the news.” – Bernard Baruch.
Still holds true 100 years later.
WiseChest8227 on
By insiders I’m assuming we mean Trump, his family and his mates.
partymsl on
“Hey Barron, we are taking out this Columbian dictator or some shit. You may want to look at your Polymagic shit.”
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Make trump rich again
This is “prediction” markets working as designed.
tldr; Three digital wallets made over $630,000 on Polymarket by betting on the arrest of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, raising suspicions of insider trading. The wallets were newly created, pre-funded, and targeted contracts tied to Maduro shortly before the news broke. This incident has prompted U.S. lawmakers to propose legislation, such as the Public Integrity in Financial Prediction Markets Act of 2026, to ban federal officials from trading on prediction markets tied to political or policy outcomes to prevent misuse of non-public information.
*This summary is auto generated by a bot and not meant to replace reading the original article. As always, DYOR.
Suspicions of insider trading .. given this took nearly the entire world by surprise I think we can account ‘suspicions’ as being an understatement
“Show me the charts and I’ll tell you the news.” – Bernard Baruch.
Still holds true 100 years later.
By insiders I’m assuming we mean Trump, his family and his mates.
“Hey Barron, we are taking out this Columbian dictator or some shit. You may want to look at your Polymagic shit.”