Trader earns USD 1.19 million on Polymarket with bets on Google trends

Source: Criptonoticias Original Title: Bettor wins USD 1 million on Polymarket and raises suspicions Original Link: A Polymarket user identified as 0xafEe won over $1.19 million in the last month thanks to extremely accurate bets on Google search trends, a fact that has sparked strong suspicions of insider information usage.

The trader, who previously operated under the name AlphaRacoon and later changed their username to 0xafEe, mainly focuses their bets on Google search trends, such as the most searched person in 2025 or product launches, although they have also dabbled in sports.

In the event “most searched person on Google 2025,” they bet “Yes” on a singer named d4vd, winning $200,000. They also invested in the “No” option against favorite candidates like Donald Trump, Pope Leo XIV, Bianca Censori, and Zohran Mamdani.

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The Polymarket user 0xafEe focuses on Google search trends.

In November, 0xafEe accurately predicted the launch date of Gemini 3.0, Google’s artificial intelligence model, and made $173,000 in profits before it was publicly announced.

In some cases, 0xafEe sells shares before the final market resolution to secure profits. For example, they buy at a low price and, when news raises the price, they liquidate the position without waiting for the official close.

The accuracy of 0xafEe has raised alarms in the community. Platform users claim that the bettor is someone operating with insider information from Google, a position that would allow for such a high level of accuracy. According to them, this is a Google employee exploiting Polymarket to make quick money.

Polymarket is the largest prediction market in the digital asset ecosystem, where people bet on presidential elections, sporting events, and other outcomes. Polymarket founder Shayne Coplan stated in November that the use of insider information is, in practice, allowed and even encouraged, something that incentivizes the efficient release of information to the market.