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Whale tracking, arbitrage research, and prediction-market analysis.

GuideApril 28, 20268 min read

How to Track Polymarket Whales in 2026 — Complete Guide

A step-by-step walkthrough for following the top 50 Polymarket whales: what makes a wallet a whale, how to read their positions, conviction signals vs. noise, and how PolySharks automates the workflow.

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AnalysisApril 27, 20269 min read

Polymarket vs. Kalshi Arbitrage — What It Is, How to Spot It, and Who Actually Captures It

Cross-platform arbitrage between Polymarket and Kalshi gets talked about a lot and captured rarely. Here is why the spreads exist, how to compute real edge after fees/slippage, and why most retail arb attempts fail.

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MethodologyApril 26, 20267 min read

Smart Money Consensus — What It Means When Five Whales Agree

Individual whale bets can be noisy. Consensus bets — where multiple top-50 whales hold the same side of the same market — are a different signal entirely. Here is how we compute it, its real track record, and the biases you should know about.

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ReferenceMay 1, 202612 min read

Polymarket Whale Dictionary — 50 Terms Every Trader Should Know

Every term you need to read prediction markets like a pro — from AMM and orderbook to conviction, consensus, CLOB tokens, redeemable positions, and the Jaccard similarity score we use for cross-platform matching.

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EducationApril 30, 202610 min read

How Polymarket Pricing Actually Works — AMM vs. Orderbook, Explained Simply

Polymarket used to run on Uniswap-style AMMs. Today it is a fully on-chain orderbook (CLOB). Here is what that means for spreads, slippage, and why whales can move prices 5¢ in a second on thin markets.

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ComparisonApril 29, 202611 min read

Kalshi vs. Polymarket in 2026 — Which Prediction Market Is Better?

A head-to-head 2026 comparison of Kalshi and Polymarket across regulation, liquidity, fees, market selection, payouts, and user experience. Plus the one factor most comparison posts miss: cross-platform arbitrage.

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AnalysisApril 28, 20269 min read

Common Whale Mistakes — When Smart Money Gets It Wrong

Whales are not oracles. We broke down every losing whale position > $25K on Polymarket in the last 6 months — and four patterns show up again and again. Read this before you tail.

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