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ForesightFlow: An Information Leakage Score Framework for Prediction Markets

ForesightFlow is an Information Leakage Score (ILS) framework for detecting informed trading on decentralized prediction markets. For an event-resolved binary market, the score quantifies the fraction of the terminal information move priced in before the public news event. Three operational scope co

Holy Grail Math 6.5 Rigor 9 ·  May 1, 2026

Resolution-Aware Perpetual Futures on Binary Prediction Markets: An Empirical Risk-Design Framework Using Polymarket Data

We develop and counterfactually evaluate a resolution-aware risk-design framework (PIRAP) for perpetual futures whose underlying tracks a single binary prediction-market probability through resolution. The framework specifies six components: an index estimator combining mid-price, depth-weighted mid

Holy Grail Math 6.5 Rigor 9 ·  May 1, 2026

Information Leakage at Population Scale: An Evaluation of the Polymarket Insider-Relevant Subpopulation, 2020-2026

We carry the deadline-resolved Information Leakage Score (ILS-dl) framework of Nechepurenko (2026a, 2026b) from a single-case proof of concept to a population-scale evaluation across 12,708 Polymarket markets, October 2020 to April 2026. We frame the paper as a scope-discovery study: scaling reveals

Holy Grail Math 6.5 Rigor 8 ·  May 1, 2026

Coordination as an Architectural Layer for LLM-Based Multi-Agent Systems

Multi-agent LLM systems fail in production at rates between 41% and 87%, mostly due to coordination defects rather than base-model capability. Existing responses split between cataloguing failure modes empirically and shipping declarative orchestration frameworks as engineering tools; neither delive

Holy Grail Math 5.5 Rigor 7.5 ·  May 1, 2026

Empirical Evaluation of Deadline-Resolved Information Leakage on Documented Polymarket Insider Cases

This paper reports an end-to-end empirical evaluation of the deadline-Information Leakage Score (ILS-dl) extension introduced in the companion methodology paper. The deadline-ILS extends the original ILS to deadline-resolved prediction-market contracts, the dominant structural form of publicly docum

Holy Grail Math 5.5 Rigor 7.5 ·  May 1, 2026

The Signal Credibility Index for Prediction Markets: A Microstructure-Grounded Diagnostic with Weighted and Time-Varying Extensions

Prediction-market price moves are widely treated as informationally equivalent: a price jump is read the same way regardless of whether it reflects durable Bayesian updating, transient liquidity pressure, strategic position adjustment, or genuine disagreement. This paper formalizes the Signal Credib

Holy Grail Math 5.5 Rigor 7.5 ·  April 1, 2026

Per-Market Information Leakage and Order-Flow Skill: Two Methodological Lenses on Informed Trading in Decentralized Prediction Markets

April 2026 saw notable methodological convergence in the academic study of informed trading on decentralized prediction markets. Three approaches surfaced almost simultaneously: Mitts and Ofir (2026) apply a composite screen to over 210,000 wallet-market pairs; Gomez-Cram et al. (2026) apply an even

Street Traders Math 4.5 Rigor 8 ·  May 1, 2026

Fill-Side Non-Retail Trading on Polymarket: An Empirical Study of Behavioral Tiers and Microstructure Signatures Under Quote-Attribution Constraints

Prediction markets cannot exist without market makers, arbitrageurs, and other non-retail liquidity providers, yet the supply-side microstructure of Polymarket-class venues has not been characterized at on-chain pseudonymous-address scale. This paper studies non-retail participation on Polymarket us

Street Traders Math 3.5 Rigor 8.5 ·  May 1, 2026

Manipulation, Insider Information, and Regulation in Leveraged Event-Linked Markets

The introduction of leverage on prediction-market event contracts raises three structurally distinct questions that have not been addressed jointly: how leverage changes manipulation incentives, how it interacts with informed-trading rents, and how regulatory frameworks should respond. This paper de

Holy Grail Math 6.5 Rigor 5.5 ·  May 1, 2026

Price as Focal Point: Prediction Markets,Conditional Reflexivity, and the Politics of Common Knowledge

Prediction markets are widely treated as forecasting devices that reveal collective expectations about uncertain futures. This article argues that under specifiable conditions they also function as coordination mechanisms: public probabilities that organize the behavior of voters, donors, journalist

Street Traders Math 4.5 Rigor 6.5 ·  April 1, 2026

From Public Evidence to Contractual Outcome: First and Stable Decidability on Kalshi

Public evidence can become sufficient to settle a prediction-market contract before the venue records its first determination, but the relevant boundary depends on the applicable rule version, exact release object, source hierarchy, correction history, and unfinished contract conditions. This paper

Street Traders Math 4 Rigor 6 ·  September 15, 2026

A Taxonomy of Event-Linked Perpetual Futures: Variant Designs Beyond the Single-Market Binary Case

Paper 1 of this research programme develops a resolution-aware risk-design framework for the simplest event-linked perpetual: a contract whose underlying tracks a single binary prediction-market probability through resolution. The instrument class is broader. Variants span conditional probabilities

Lab Rats Math 6.5 Rigor 2.5 ·  May 1, 2026

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