alpharaccoon, this alias is pretty cute, but the work it does isn’t cute at all—using internal search trends as an oracle, Web3 arbitrage has turned into a Silicon Valley version of Breaking Bad.

Crypto界网 reports that a Google engineer has been charged with insider trading related to Polymarket, with the FBI stating that the employee used confidential internal search trend data to place millions of dollars in bets on Polymarket under the alias "alpharaccoon." On-chain data reveals that before attempting to launder money through privacy tools and offshore accounts, he had profited approximately $1.2 million.