Stanford Study: Polymarket’s Bitcoin Bets Were Rigged in the Final 10 Seconds
A small group of traders extracted $8.2 million from Polymarket’s five-minute bitcoin contracts by pushing the spot price on Binance just before settlement, researchers from Stanford University and Singapore Management U...
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