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FIND YOUR PATH ON POLYMARKET I’m continuing to dive deeper into trading strategies on @Polymarket and once again I’m convinced of something simple: sustainable profit here doesn’t come from “secret alpha,” but from understanding yourself and the decisions you make. Polymarket isn’t just betting. It’s an ecosystem of different approaches: delta-neutral strategies, arbitrage, market-making with spreads, copytrading, event-driven positions. Try everything. Not to scatter your focus, but to discover what naturally fits your way of thinking, where you feel interest and ease. Once you identify that - go deep and sharpen the skill until confidence appears. Figure out where your natural expertise lies. It doesn’t have to be obvious: sports, crypto, politics - or something niche, like “reading people like a psychic at a neighborhood barbecue.” Sometimes the strangest strengths become real advantages. Most importantly - don’t chase other people’s strategies out of envy or the desire to match their profits. Someone else’s approach will never anchor itself in your psychological setup. You already have knowledge, intuition, and inclinations you can build from. Give them a chance. And the foundation without which everything above collapses: money management and risk management. If you don’t follow the rules, you lose. Here it’s not philosophy, it’s physics. There’s no alpha here. Just thoughts that might save you from unnecessary losses. Peace

FROM BETTING TO STRATEGY The screenshot shows a small but meaningful first profit I made while learning new trading strategies on @Polymarket. I’m not a fan of impulsive, emotional moves. Polymarket isn’t a casino, it’s a market where strategy, math, and discipline actually work. There are plenty of smart, patient people here who earn consistently and make real life-changing gains. I’m moving in the same direction.

ONE OF THE MOST POWERFUL DAOs OUT THERE - ZSC DAO An official website is now live: zscdao.com @zscdao is steadily and forcefully strengthening its foundation, putting in the work every single day to drive long-term growth. This is just the warm-up. Nothing has even started yet.

UFC I saw that many people from our @zscdao community jumped into this bet. Congrats to everyone who, like me, was rooting for @PetrYanUFC - it was a well-deserved victory. And extra congratulations to those who actually bet on him. That’s your well-earned win! Share your winnings and emotions in the comments. Peace

AZTEC: EVENT RESULTS My takes played out perfectly. As we can see, they didn’t just fail to hit 25k ETH, they didn’t even reach 20k ETH. These markets had great odds. Congrats to everyone who participated and locked in profit. I grabbed a solid return myself, even though I didn’t go in with full size. There’s another interesting @aztecnetwork market on @Polymarket that I’ll cover later. DYOR and manage your risk. Peace.

LIGHTER AIRDROP BY DECEMBER 31? @Lighter_xyz spot has officially launched on mainnet. Earlier the team hinted that the token would come after the Spot launch. There’s already a market on @Polymarket: polymarket.com/event/lighter… The team wrote: “we always planned to TGE in mid-late December.” A few days ago someone loaded this market heavily, looks a lot like insider confidence. There’s also an additional note in the market description: “If Lighter launches a memecoin and performs an airdrop of that token within this market’s timeframe, it will qualify for a ‘Yes’ resolution.” What you think will $LIT actually drop before year-end? DYOR and manage your risk. Peace.

POLYMARKET: TOP-2 SAFE CRYPTO MARKETS A quick reminder: the key feature of these markets is a highly predictable outcome. Lower yield, but significantly lower risk. Below are a couple of current @Polymarket markets that potentially allow you to take ~3% with a relatively safe setup. Plus short points on why they’re worth considering. #1 Will Zcash hit $1000 by December 31? Market: polymarket.com/event/will-zc… Why It Works It will be extremely difficult for $Zcash to reach $1000 in 2025 because: ✦ the current ~$350–400 price already reflects a parabolic x10+ run over the past months; ✦ with an $8–11B market cap, hitting $1000 requires another nearly 3x repricing in a highly overheated and volatile environment; ✦ on-chain activity and actual privacy usage lag far behind the speculative pump; ✦ regulatory pressure on privacy coins (delistings, CEX restrictions, institutional limitations) caps new inflows; ✦ historically, even during peak hype, ZEC couldn’t hold extreme levels for long and corrected sharply. #2 What price will Ethereum hit in 2025? Market: polymarket.com/event/what-pr… Why It Works It will be difficult for $ETH to hit $5000 in 2025 because: ✦ at the current ~$3100 price, it requires ~60% upside on an already large ~$370B market cap; ✦ technicals remain closer to neutral–bearish (SMA/EMA leaning more sell than buy); ✦ institutional demand via ETFs and the DeFi narrative is already partially priced in; ✦ macro and regulatory risks (rates, crypto regulation, ETH ETF policies in the US/EU) limit a repricing toward $600B+ this cycle. DYOR and manage your risk. Peace.

POLYMARKET: TOP-3 SAFE CRYPTO MARKETS The key feature of these markets is their near-certainty of outcome - which is why the returns are smaller, but much safer. Below are a few current markets on @Polymarket, along with short notes on why they’re worth considering. #1 Will Base launch a token by ___ ? Market: polymarket.com/event/will-ba… ✦ Base almost certainly won’t launch a token in 2025. ✦ Team says they’re only in the “early exploration phase,” with no timeline. ✦ Individual devs openly state the token won’t drop in 2025. ✦ Heavy regulation + Coinbase being a U.S. public company makes a quick TGE unrealistic. #2 Stable FDV above ___ one day after launch? Market: polymarket.com/event/stable-… ✦ YES on FDV > $2B is priced at ~$0.80. ✦ With the current pre-market sitting around $3B, a deep dump looks unlikely. #3 What price will Hyperliquid hit before 2026? Market: polymarket.com/event/hyperli… ✦ To see HYPE hit $100 in 2025, we’d need an extremely bullish scenario for the whole market and for Hyperliquid itself. ✦ The current price is around $34–35. ✦ $100 = x3 from now and x1.7 from the 2025 ATH. I don’t believe this scenario plays out. DYOR and manage your risk. Peace.

AZTEC: POSITION UPDATE The bet played out exactly as expected. The main period where I anticipated heavy inflows has passed. They still haven’t crossed the 20K ETH mark. Market: polymarket.com/event/aztec-p… I closed both positions. Results: 35K ETH: +20.37% 50K ETH: +7.77% My Take Slightly adjusting my approach now, I won’t be waiting for expiration anymore. I’ll be closing earlier at prices that look good to me. This way I avoid unexpected situations that can lead to questionable platform decisions or dirty moves from manipulators who push large volumes in and out. Later today I’ll post some safer markets to look at. DYOR and manage your risk. Peace.

AZTEC: POSITION UPDATE Deposits are coming in weak. No ~16.5K ETH. The NO price is rising as expected. Market: polymarket.com/event/aztec-p… Didn’t manage to size in properly. Yesterday @Polymarket had issues with deposits going through, and right after my post the price pumped, so I couldn’t enter at the level I wanted. I’m not going to over-adjust here. A bit regretful I entered late, but it is what it is. Thoughts For those who are only now looking at this market, I’d take a look at the safer high-threshold brackets. You can confidently grab around ~5% on your capital in 3 days. DYOR and respect your risk management. Peace.

AZTEC: A MARKET WITH INTERESTING OPPORTUNITIES Today the public sale went live, and there’s a @Polymarket market tracking the total amount raised. Market: polymarket.com/event/aztec-p… Thoughts Those who wanted the best terms or had been following the project closely mostly entered during the contributor phase. Now the clearing price will never go down, which means there won’t be a final “spike” of deposits toward the end. There’s simply no incentive for it. In theory, the main demand should be concentrated on the first day. The public opening hasn’t brought a strong inflow so far. No “high-bank” entries yet, mainly smaller investors and farmers coming in for the base reward. At the moment, they’ve raised 15.5k ETH. My strategy Even though I don’t believe the raise will go above >25k ETH, I decided to take positions at safer thresholds: NO >35k ETH and NO >50k ETH. DYOR and respect your risk management. Peace

MAKANA: POSITION UPDATE As I wrote in the previous post - the manipulation concerns turned out to be true. Last night I could’ve closed the positions for a nice profit. But I didn’t see any negative signals, so I decided not to touch it. In the end, the manipulation started unfolding while I was asleep, exactly what you’d expect. I’ll break down the manipulation in detail in the next tweet. For now: I had to close the >2M position at a loss. The >5M one I held to expiration and closed at +9%, which helped soften the overall hit on this event. Once I finish some things, I want to re-evaluate my @Polymarket strategy and spend time working on safer setups. I’ll share those with you as well. DYOR and respect your risk management. Peace.

POSITION UPDATE: MANIPULATION RISK? After an influencer posted on Telegram about a possible play - buying cheap YES and depositing the remaining 800k to push the raise to 2M - the price dropped. At times it dips below my 0.48 entry, then jumps back to 0.50. Stressful situation. Market: polymarket.com/event/makina-… During stress the impulse is to exit breakeven or even at a small loss, but I pause, breathe, and look at facts, not emotions. Facts: ✦ The contract still sits at around $1.22M. Inflow is extremely weak. ✦ Top holders on Polymarket aren’t accumulating. Just a few wallets with 3–6k positions. ✦ Running a manipulation to double such small stacks makes little sense. Locking huge liquidity for ~0.4% profit is unlikely. I did add a small amount to average down, but stayed within my risk management and didn’t size up aggressively. I also don’t see signals to exit yet. If I see strong accumulation or large deposits into the contract, I’ll reconsider. Even with the current facts, the manipulation risk remains. That makes entering this market high-risk. If you have observations on this trade, share them in the comments. I’m interested in other perspectives. Peace.

✦ MAKINA: POSITION UPDATE ✦ >$2M: +53% >$5M: +1.4% @Polymarket added a new line — >$1.5M. Odds look juicy, but the play is meh: high-risk. Honestly? I’m not even sure they hit $1.5M at this pace. Watching tomorrow’s inflow and deciding when to close >$2M. >$5M I’m holding to expiration, let it cook.

MAKINA ALPHA DROP: Legion frontend says: $1,359,765 USDC Deposited But that’s not what matters. The only number Polymarket uses comes from the allocation contract: $1,120,375 Source contract: 0xd90537959dfb699d9ca4898082b70fb238c3dc1f No >$2M is 0.67¢. Today they pulled barely $25k. Time left: 01d 17h 41m 29s. Market: polymarket.com/event/makina-… Think.

MAKINA: POSITION RISING, DEPOSITS MOVING SLOWLY AND THAT ONLY STRENGTHENS THE TRADE Here’s an update on my @Polymarket position. Market: polymarket.com/event/makina-… Current price: 0.56 (+13% since my last post). At the peak it reached 0.68. Fundraising remains extremely slow. I’ve decided to keep scaling into the >$5M NO side. I’ll be looking for good entries. My plan is to hold for at least another day and watch how the pace develops. I may take profits on >$2M within the next 24-48 hours, but >$5M is the one I’m planning to hold until expiration, the idea still looks strong.

And judging by the pace, "Makina public sale total commitments >$5M” - NO bet also turned out to be super safe. Since my breakdown, could’ve taken about 10% profit on any size. It’s less attractive now, but it was basically guaranteed yield over a two-day window. Market: polymarket.com/event/makina-…

MAKINA IS STALLING AND THE NO BET JUST HIT 2X It’s been 24 hours since my post about the @makinafi sale. As expected, the fundraising pace is extremely slow: only $56K was added in the last day, even less than the day before. If you had entered on my initial call, you could already lock in 2x+ on the position. Market: polymarket.com/event/makina-… The NO side is currently trading at $0.48. I didn’t enter yesterday because I was still tilted, but today I decided to take the current price. Here’s why I see this as a good trade. Total raised: $1,336,473 Remaining to reach $2M: $663,527 Raised in the last 24 hours: $56K There are a bit more than two days left until the sale ends. I’m confident tomorrow will be just as quiet. The heavily rekt launch of @tenprotocol on Legion clearly spooked a lot of potential Makina buyers — the day-one crash and the team’s unwillingness to fix the issue didn’t build trust. I’ll keep watching the numbers. If tomorrow stays equally slow and the odds move in the right direction, I’ll take profits early.

WILL LIGHTER AIRDROP BEFORE DEC 31? Clean Deep Dive. One of the biggest questions right now. Here’s the clearest breakdown you’ll read. TL;DR: Polymarket gives a 74% chance of TGE before New Year. Signals look strong, delays are still possible. Market’s here: polymarket.com/event/lighter… Why a December TGE makes sense ✦ @vnovakovski basically hinted at it. Season 2 ends before the end of the year. And the season “continues roughly until TGE.” That’s a pretty direct signal. ✦ Prediction markets are bullish. @Polymarket: 74% YES, liquidity > $1.2M. That’s not just community hype, that’s money talking. ✦ Fresh $68M raise at a $1.5B valuation. Big funds don’t write checks right before TGE without alignment. ✦ Competitive pressure is real. @HyperliquidX already launched. @Aster_DEX is heating up. @Lighter_xyz needs a token to retain users post-points. ✦ Spot testnet already live. Mainnet is close. A 3–4 week delay is normal. ✦ Tokenomics is essentially ready. 25–30% for Season 1 + 2. 50% for community. Buyback confirmed. Governance after ~2 years. Why it might slip into January ✦ No official date yet. Team is deliberately cautious. ✦ Spot mainnet not live. If tied to TGE, this can push timelines. ✦ October incident slowed things down. 4 hours downtime, infrastructure fixes - that always delays launches. ✦ Manifold less bullish. Only 51% for launch before Dec 25. ✦ Heavy December roadmap. Spot, cross-margin, RWA - that’s a lot in one month. Conclusion Most likely TGE window: Dec 15–28. This matches CEO signals, product timing, and market pricing. A Q1 2026 delay (25–30%) is possible - but looks more like a technical slip than a strategic decision. What to watch ✦ spot mainnet announcement ✦ Season 2 end announcement ✦ tokenomics release ✦ CEX listing partners My take Everything points to a December launch. The probability of TGE before Dec 31 is genuinely high.