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Yale: 3% of Polymarket traders capture 27% of all profit

  • 3% of accounts collected 27% of all dollar profit on Polymarket
  • Sample: 1.72M accounts and 210,322 markets over two years
  • The share of skilled traders may fall from 3% to less than 1%
  • Institutions avoid low-liquidity markets, leaving a niche for specialists
Why it matters: The growth of institutional capital on prediction markets makes prices more accurate but narrows opportunities for profitable trading by small participants.
Source: BeInCrypto