A major prediction market platform might be inflating its numbers—and nobody noticed until now. Fresh research points to a data aggregation flaw at Polymarket that's been double-counting trading volume this whole time. The kicker? This glitch likely contaminates most third-party dashboards and public analytics tools tracking the platform. So all those impressive volume charts everyone's been citing? Yeah, they might need a serious asterisk. Wild how a single aggregation bug can ripple through an entire ecosystem of data providers.
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A major prediction market platform might be inflating its numbers—and nobody noticed until now. Fresh research points to a data aggregation flaw at Polymarket that's been double-counting trading volume this whole time. The kicker? This glitch likely contaminates most third-party dashboards and public analytics tools tracking the platform. So all those impressive volume charts everyone's been citing? Yeah, they might need a serious asterisk. Wild how a single aggregation bug can ripple through an entire ecosystem of data providers.