The Finance Shelf

Polymarket

Company · US · 3 documents

Key number
300 billion USD
Total Stablecoin Market Capitalization. Bitwise p.15
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20 billion USD
Kalshi monthly trading volume by early 2026. Academic research p.19
Key number
$2 billion $
Polymarket investment by ICE. Finance and Society p.14

Profiting From Prediction

Research paperAcademic researchNovember 202683 pages

An anonymous trader earned nearly half a million dollars in profit on a prediction market platform by wagering on the removal of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro shortly before his capture by the U.S. military.