Aug 10, 2026
Polymarket switches to time-weighted pricing after researchers expose $8.2 million manipulation scheme
Researchers discovered 821 accounts that exploited Polymarket's single-price settlement mechanism to manipulate bitcoin prices in the final seconds before contract settlement, profiting $8.2 million. The prediction market has now replaced snapshot pricing with time-weighted average prices (TWAP) for short-dated crypto markets.
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