Market Insight 🧠 | Liquidity Matters
A trader just pulled a $233K profit by exploiting thin weekend liquidity on Polymarket’s
$XRP market.
Here’s what happened:
• Weekend liquidity was low → bots dominated flow
• Trader accumulated UP shares while spot
$XRP was drifting down
• 2 minutes before settlement, they injected $1M into XRP
• Price spiked → contract settled
• XRP dumped immediately after
No hacks. No exploits. Just timing + liquidity control.
The real question isn’t “Is this illegal?”
It’s “Who controls liquidity when markets are thin?”
This is exactly why deep, organic liquidity mat