Insider Trading Surveillance for Prediction Markets
P6/10May 28, 2026
WhatA compliance and market surveillance platform that monitors prediction market activity for insider trading patterns, unusual bet sizing, and connections to privileged information sources.
SignalPrediction markets are growing rapidly but lack the sophisticated surveillance infrastructure that traditional financial markets have built over decades, creating a regulatory and integrity gap that this case publicly exposed.
Why NowPrediction markets like Polymarket have gone mainstream post-2024 election cycle, regulators are now actively prosecuting manipulation cases, and platforms face existential risk if they can't demonstrate market integrity.
MarketPrediction market platforms (Polymarket, Kalshi, etc.), sports betting operators, and regulators are the buyers. TAM follows the prediction market industry projected at $50B+. NASDAQ's surveillance tech is the closest analog but doesn't cover crypto-native prediction markets.
MoatNetwork effects from cross-platform data aggregation — the more markets and wallets tracked, the better the anomaly detection models become, creating a data flywheel competitors can't replicate without similar coverage.
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