A recent analysis by Solidus Labs shows that between December 2025 and February 2026, less than 1% of wallet users on Polymarket accounted for nearly half of the total profits from key political prediction markets.

The report points out that prediction markets exhibit structural polarization, with a small number of well-funded, technologically advanced traders consistently earning higher returns than the vast majority of other users.

Solidus also warns of signs of fraudulent trading on Polymarket and the potential risk of profiting from $POLY airdrops, even though Polymarket itself is leveraging on-chain data to promote its own market monitoring platform.