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Polymarket’s geopolitics category rallies past $5 billion as insider trading fears mount
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Nine anonymous wallets with a 98% win rate on Iran bets have drawn regulatory scrutiny to the prediction market's fastest-growing category.
Key facts
- Polymarket’s geopolitics category has ballooned to roughly $5 billion in total volume year-to-date through mid-June 2026, with Iran-related contracts alone exceeding $2 billion in the first four
- The $2.4 million those nine wallets extracted is a rounding error compared to the $5 billion in total geopolitics volume
- According to a May 2026 analysis by Bubblemaps, nine interconnected anonymous wallets achieved a 98% win rate on Iran war policy bets, collectively pocketing $2.4 million in profits
- A separate contract centered on a prospective US-Iran peace deal crossed $479 million by mid-June
Summary
Prediction markets were supposed to be the wisdom of crowds, distilled into probabilities and priced in real time. Polymarket’s geopolitics category has ballooned to roughly $5 billion in total volume year-to-date through mid-June 2026, with Iran-related contracts alone exceeding $2 billion in the first four months of the year. Iran-related bets on Polymarket averaged 8.4% daily volume growth in March alone. According to a May 2026 analysis by Bubblemaps, nine interconnected anonymous wallets achieved a 98% win rate on Iran war policy bets, collectively pocketing $2.4 million in profits.