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— Nick Devor (@nickdevor_) April 22, 2026
My guess, grasping at straws, was that it was bots, but there's this:
One theory from Polymarket traders that Barron’s spoke to focuses on a cryptocurrency token that Polymarket is expected to mint and distribute to its users sometime this year. Those traders have theorized that total trading activity may be a factor in deciding the number of tokens received. Taking cheap bets on a Kardashian presidency would be a way to boost that metric....On Kalshi, a rival platform, trading volume on the presidential election winner market is concentrated among the favorites.
In other gambling news:
Today, we're releasing notices related to three enforcement investigations.
— robertjdenault (@robertjdenault) April 22, 2026
All three cases concern political insider trading and were flagged because of our newly released safeguards to block political candidates from trading on their own elections.
Kalshi does not tolerate…
(I think this is still just a theory)holy fuck, a hair dryer at a Paris airport broke Polymarket weather markets & made someone $34,000 richer
— @aaronjmars (@aaronjmars) April 22, 2026
- polymarket was settling Paris temperature bets on a single Météo France sensor sitting near the Charles de Gaulle runway perimeter - basically unguarded
- the guy bought… pic.twitter.com/ona2hP3oZc