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an ex-OpenAI researcher pushed his trading system to GitHub the night he got fired someone in a crypto Discord dropped the link at 2am. "this repo appeared an hour ago. zero stars. readme says internal use only. the code looks real" i clicked. it was a complete prediction market...

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a Renaissance intern posted his model on GitHub for 6 hours before deleting it someone in a Discord dropped the link at 1am. "this looks real. star count is zero. repo is 4 hours old. readme has internal formatting" i clicked. it was a full prediction market scoring model. four filters: > disposition ratio > category dominance > capital velocity > volume exit triggers clean Python. commented like someone who writes for a team. the readme said "internal use - do not distribute" i ran git clone so fast i typo'd the first attempt. by 3am the repo was gone. mass-deleted. commits. branches. everything. but i had it. opened Claude. gave it the code and one public repo: 2,600 stars. official framework. LLM-powered trading agents. "merge this scoring model with this execution layer. build a terminal that runs all four filters on live markets" Claude had it running by sunrise. first three days i was terrified it would break. kept checking every hour. it didn't break. it just kept scoring and entering. > AMD Xilinx - entered 52c. model said 59c. closed +7c in 2h. > Artemis launch - entered 63c. model said 85c. closed +22c in 5h. > Derecho MW - entered 71c. model said 87c. closed +16c in under 2h. disposition filter kills everything below 0.70 automatically. no override. every wallet it copies is filtered to one category. crypto wallet copies crypto. weather wallet copies weather. nothing crosses. 87% win rate. 34 markets. +$12,685. 6 strategies running simultaneously: base rate. conditional prob. liquidity snipe. delta hedge. calibration. theta decay. spread arb catching gaps live: - BTC 92K vs Kalshi gap 0.3c - Fed cut vs PredictIt gap 3.7c - Derecho vs Betfair gap 11.9c copytrade setup here: cost: Claude and a VPS. cheaper than the mass-deleted repo was worth. i checked his GitHub profile last week. still active. new repos. normal stuff. he has no idea someone cloned it. and now you're reading what was in it.

Hanako

117,572 views • 4 months ago

a MIT quant told me Polymarket 5-minute BTC markets are mathematically broken we were at a bar in cambridge. he was finishing his PhD on market microstructure. third beer in he started drawing on a napkin. "Polymarket runs BTC Up or Down every 5 minutes. 288 markets per day. everyone trades direction. that's the wrong game" "when UP is at 20c and DOWN is at 85c that's $1.05 combined. overpaid. minutes later UP flips to 82c and DOWN drops to 18c. the gap reversed. you buy the cheap side. never predict direction. just capture the mispricing" i asked how he discovered this. "i studied 28,000 of these markets for my dissertation. the crowd injects emotion every 5 minutes. that creates a spread you can harvest mechanically" then i went home that night. opened Claude Opus 4.7. "build a 5-minute BTC spread capture engine for Polymarket. buy the cheap side of UP/DOWN when pair cost drops below 99c. never predict direction" 2,900 stars. 36GB. every trade on Polymarket and Kalshi. Opus built it overnight. NEURAL FLUX. 24 bayesian nodes. scanning every 2ms. the strategy is real. this account runs it live. 28,620 predictions. every trade on-chain: whale alert feed tracks who's moving: > yes 0x47ac...d5e3 BTC+103K 30m $97. > yes smart_money BTC+98K 5m $870. > yes darkpool_7 BTC+102K 15m $97. > no 0xd8dA...6045 BTC+97.5K 5m $1,014. > yes copy_bot BTC+100K 15m $1,014. > no 0xBE0e...48CD BTC+101K 5m $688. edge scanner: 4 live edges. BTC+100K 5m +7.7c. BTC+99.5K 5m +7.2c. BTC<99K 5m +4.2c. BTC+101K 5m +6.8c. $534K volume. 79% win rate. sharpe 3.64. drawdown -1.2%. +$11,681 from $1,200 seed. i copied the setup here: texted him after week one with a screenshot. "you deployed this live?" Claude deployed it. i typed what you drew on the napkin. long pause. "my thesis advisor would lose his mind if he saw this" probably. but the spread doesn't care who captures it.

Hanako

53,628 views • 4 months ago

a Chinese PhD dropout told me Wall Street is solving the wrong equation on purpose i met him through a girl i was seeing in hong kong. he hadn't had a real job in three years. "every bank. every fund. every quant lab. they all try to predict where BTC goes next. up or down. that's the wrong question" i asked what the right question is. "who is mispricing the reaction" he opened his phone. showed me Polymarket. "288 BTC markets per day. every 5 minutes. YES or NO. the crowd bets direction. direction doesn't matter. what matters is the spread between YES and NO when the crowd panics" he drew on a napkin. "YES at 79c. NO at 22c. combined $1.01. fair. then someone dumps $3,000 on YES. it spikes to 96c. NO crashes to 5c. that's 17 cents of free alpha sitting there for 4 minutes" "Wall Street builds billion dollar models to predict direction. i buy the panic. different equation. different result" i flew home. opened a Chinese AI. typed what he told me. "build a spread capture engine for Polymarket 5-minute BTC markets. buy the underpriced side when crowd panic creates a gap. never predict direction" 30,800 stars. multi-agent LLM trading framework. the AI adapted it for prediction markets overnight. NERVE GRID. 6 pairs. BTC. ETH. SOL. AVAX. 400+ windows per day. edge table live: BTC+100K 5m. 79c vs 22c. +27c edge. BTC<99K. 35c vs 27c. +8c edge. ETH+3.8K. 46c vs 30c. +12c edge. SOL+200 5m. 55c vs 22c. +22c edge. the system kills 2,986 setups per day. enters 563. avg hold 1:02. wins are 4.51x the losses. fill rate 96.4%. avg latency 15ms. best fill 9ms. +$4,847 from $600 seed. infrastructure: $20 AI. $5 VPS. everything else open source. $25/month. i copied the setup here: texted him two weeks later with a screenshot. "you're running the panic equation?" the AI built it from one conversation. "good. now try ETH and SOL. bigger spreads. less competition" i already was. he could see it in the screenshot. long pause. "you learn fast for someone who asks the right questions" i didn't ask any questions. i just listened.

Hanako

37,205 views • 4 months ago

an MIT quant showed me his lab's trading model on a napkin after his third whiskey bar near kendall square. friday night. he was celebrating a paper acceptance. i was checking my phone. he noticed the red P&L curve on my screen. "is that a live heartbeat monitor on a prediction market" i nodded. "what's the execution backend" a Chinese AI. $20/month. he almost spit his drink. "we have 6 researchers and $800K in grant money building this exact system. it's been in simulation for 18 months" i asked what's stopping them from going live. "IRB approval. faculty review. risk committee. three layers of bureaucracy before a single dollar moves" he grabbed a napkin. started drawing. "the model is simple. BTC 5-minute binary markets. 288 per day. YES and NO. crowd trades direction. direction is noise" he drew a spread diagram. "YES at 71c. NO at 29c. fair. crowd panics. YES crashes. NO spikes. combined drops to 93c. 7 cents of free alpha. buy the cheap side. repeat 288 times a day" he wrote three variables underneath: > edge = YES_fair - YES_market > kelly_f = edge / variance > threshold = 6c minimum "that's the whole model. three variables. everything else is noise" i memorized the napkin. went home at midnight. gave the Chinese AI one repo and the three formulas. 35,000 stars. unified exchange API. connects to every major platform through one interface. the model read the codebase. cross-referenced the formulas. had the system live by 6AM. heartbeat monitor. streak tracker. edge table. whale flow scanner. edge table live: BTC+100K 5m. 25c. +8.6c edge. BTC+99.5K. 56c. +9.6c edge. BTC AI - $20/mo > VPS - $5/mo > everything else - free i copied the setup here: texted him monday with a screenshot of the equity curve. he called immediately. "is that my napkin running live" technically it's a Chinese AI running your napkin. "my lab has 6 people, 18 months, and $800K. you did this over a weekend with a $25 subscription" the napkin didn't need IRB approval. long pause. "don't tell my advisor where you got the model" the napkin is still in my pocket.

Hanako

23,465 views • 4 months ago

An OpenAI researcher sat down next to me at a coffee shop in Mission District I had my terminal open. Three panels. Live trades scrolling. He was reading something on his laptop. Glanced over. Stopped reading. "That's not a dashboard. That's a live scoring engine. What model is running that" I told him. Claude Code. Four repos. $25 a month. He closed his laptop. "I work at OpenAI. We benchmarked Claude internally last month. You're using it to trade prediction markets?" I opened one link. 86 million trades. Every wallet. Every entry. Every exit. The entire Polymarket history since day one. "This is public? We quoted a seven-figure budget to reconstruct this kind of dataset from on-chain data. The project is still in review" I told him Claude Code connects directly. It reads the whole dataset. Finds the wallets that win. Then finds WHY they win. Then copies the pattern. He pulled his chair closer. "Walk me through the exit logic" Top wallets exit before resolution 91% of the time. They capture 86% of the move and cut losers at 12%. Everyone else holds to 58%. Same entries. Completely different exits. My bot cuts at 85% of expected move. Or on a 3x volume spike. Whichever hits first. "Who gave you that threshold" Claude Code found it in poly_data. In about 20 minutes. "We had a team of nine working on this exact problem for six months. They never shipped it. You did it in a weekend with a competitor's model" I opened another link. Three commands. 500+ markets. No API key. Claude scores them in 20 minutes. "That's our internal eval pipeline. Except it took us six months and you built it on a Saturday" My setup: Claude API - $20/mo VPS - $5/mo poly_data - free polymarket-cli - free 19 days. 4 agents. 74% win rate. +$9,400. Copytrade here: I showed him the article where I broke down every repo, every command, every dollar. He read it for five minutes. Then looked up. "You just published what we presented to Sam last quarter. Using the other team's model" He texted me the next morning. "My director found your thread. Take it down" Too late.

Lunar

159,690 views • 4 months ago

I asked Claude Fable 5 (Extra High) to build an arb bot for Polymarket. One rule: trade only when YES + NO in 2 hours it almost doubled it (+$98.40) > in 5 hours it showed +$493 PnL > current balance: +$3,279.73 Cost: 7.5M tokens. Here's how it works and why: Every BTC Up/Down market on Polymarket has exactly two outcomes. YES and NO. When the market resolves, one pays $1. The other pays $0. That means owning BOTH sides should always cost exactly $1. But markets aren't perfect. Sometimes YES trades at $0.48 while NO trades at $0.49. Together that's only $0.97 so the bot instantly buys both. A position worth $1... for just $0.97. And Claude knows it, this is the simplest arb that exists. You can paste this to it and use this logic in your prompt. This $0.03 difference is locked in regardless of whether Bitcoin pumps, dumps, or goes sideways. No prediction required. And difficult part isn't finding the opportunity, it's execution. These pricing gaps usually disappear in seconds. If one order fills but the other doesn't, the trade can become a loss. So my bot constantly scans every BTC market, checks fees, validates liquidity, places both orders almost simultaneously and skips what isn't worth the risk. It's less like trading and more like catching tiny accounting mistakes before everyone else notices them. Funny enoughh, the hardest part was not writing arb logic. It was making the execution reliable enough that free money actually stayed free. This completely changed how I think about trading. What's the point of it if you can just fill mispriced BTC markets?? Automatically. The biggest edge is getting AI to execute simple ideas faster and more consistently than any human ever could. Shared the exact build in my last article, leaving it below.

Oracle Boar

78,062 views • 24 days ago

a deported Chinese dev at a Starbucks showed me his screen and said "you have 6 seconds" he was sitting in the corner. two phones. one laptop. hood up. looked like he hadn't slept in days. i sat down next to him because every other seat was taken. he saw my screen. Polymarket open. "you trade these BTC markets?" yeah. 5-minute binaries. he turned his laptop toward me. "you see how the result settles? every 5-minute BTC market resolves based on an oracle. the oracle reads the price from an API. but the oracle doesn't update instantly. there's a lag. 4 to 6 seconds" "in those 6 seconds the real BTC price already moved. but the market is still open. still accepting orders. priced on the old number" he pointed at his screen. two windows side by side. left: Binance BTC spot feed. right: Polymarket orderbook. 3,200 stars. decentralized oracle framework. he had it forked on his laptop. the entire oracle timing model was exposed in the source code. "right now BTC is at $100,240 on Binance. the oracle still shows $100,190. the market 'BTC above $100,200 at 3:05pm' is trading YES at 41 cents" "but i already know the answer is YES. because i see the real price. the oracle doesn't. for 6 seconds i'm trading against a blind counterparty" watched him buy YES at 41c. four seconds later the oracle updated. market resolved YES. payout $1. "59 cents in 4 seconds. this happens every 5 minutes. 288 times a day" asked how he found this. "i was an oracle engineer at Chainlink in Shanghai. got deported for visa issues. took the knowledge with me" "every oracle has a heartbeat interval. a deviation threshold. a propagation delay. i know exactly how long each one takes to update. because i built three of them" he closed his laptop. "the edge isn't in the market. it's in the infrastructure layer between the real price and the reported price. nobody looks there. because nobody understands how oracles work" finished his coffee. left. didn't get his name. didn't need it. flew home. opened Claude. "build an oracle latency exploitation engine for Polymarket BTC binaries. track real-time BTC spot price from Binance websocket feed. compare against Polymarket oracle update timestamps. detect windows where oracle lags behind spot by more than $30. enter the side that the real price already confirmed. target the 4-6 second blind window before each oracle heartbeat." the system was live by morning. named it DEEP SIGNAL. first fill hit before i finished coffee. > Binance websocket feed at 50ms intervals. > oracle heartbeat monitor. > propagation delay calculator. > spot-to-oracle divergence detector. > conviction gate at $30+ deviation. > order placement avg 47ms. $534K volume. 79% win rate. sharpe 3.64. drawdown -1.2%. +$11,681 in profit runs on: Claude $20. VPS $5. UMA protocol free. $25/month. copytrade setup here: went back to that Starbucks a week later. same corner. empty. but the oracle still lags. every 5 minutes. every day. 6 seconds is all you need when you can see what the oracle can't.

Hanako

32,645 views • 4 months ago

I asked Claude Fable 5 (Extra High) to build an arb bot for Polymarket. One rule: trade only when YES + NO in 2 hours it almost doubled it (+$96.31) > in 5 hours it showed +$579 PnL > current balance: +$3,799.73 Cost: 10M tokens. Here's how it works and why: Every BTC Up/Down market on Polymarket has exactly two outcomes. YES and NO. When the market resolves, one pays $1. The other pays $0. That means owning BOTH sides should always cost exactly $1. But markets aren't perfect. Sometimes YES trades at $0.48 while NO trades at $0.49. Together that's only $0.97 so the bot instantly buys both. A position worth $1... for just $0.97. And Claude knows it, this is the simplest arb that exists. You can paste this to it and use this logic in your prompt. This $0.03 difference is locked in regardless of whether Bitcoin pumps, dumps, or goes sideways. No prediction required. And difficult part isn't finding the opportunity, it's execution. These pricing gaps usually disappear in seconds. If one order fills but the other doesn't, the trade can become a loss. So my bot constantly scans every BTC market, checks fees, validates liquidity, places both orders almost simultaneously and skips what isn't worth the risk. It's less like trading and more like catching tiny accounting mistakes before everyone else notices them. Funny enoughh, the hardest part was not writing arb logic. It was making the execution reliable enough that free money actually stayed free. This completely changed how I think about trading. What's the point of it if you can just fill mispriced BTC markets?? Automatically. The biggest edge is getting AI to execute simple ideas faster and more consistently than any human ever could. Shared the exact build in my last article, leaving it below. Good luck!

Oracle Boar

155,166 views • 2 months ago

🚨WAIT WHAT?! $600k Polymarket bot (now open source) just leaked online And ANYONE can run it right now. Polymarket users this MATTERS. I thought it was one lucky election hit. Instead, it turned out to be a repeatable system built on patience, scaled into $639K in profit in five months and parts of the bot logic are now circulating publicly No insider access No privileged information No narrative edge Just a wallet executing a strategy whose core code is now floating around as open source Profile → To copytrade → I dug through his history and ngl, it caught me off guard No oversized gambles No hero trades No randomness at all Everything follows the same pattern His FULL strategy and his bot: 1. 15-minute BTC, ETH & SOL entries The wallet operates in short 15-minute windows across BTC, ETH, and SOL markets. Instead of predicting outcomes, it enters during brief moments of maximum fear, when traders rush to exit at a loss. The execution is identical every time. 2. Patience over prediction He never enters early. Never chases. Never reacts late. The position is taken exactly when the crowd panic-sells. While others lock in -12%, this wallet absorbs the liquidity they create. 3. Consistency over size Most positions are small. Thousands of micro-entries. No single trade carries the strategy. The edge comes from repeating the same behavior relentlessly Github → Scale matters 2,417 markets traded. Largest single win: $69.8K. Current exposure: $140K. The profit curve moves in one direction up only Bottom line IMO, there’s a quiet skill gap on Polymarket Most traders try to predict A few traders wait for fear And as long as panic exists, someone will keep getting paid for fading it.

Shelpid.WI3M

26,763 views • 7 months ago

an ex-Jane Street trader told me a paycheck is the most overpriced contract there is we were at a rooftop bar in tel aviv. friend of a friend. i told him i work in tech. $4,200/month after taxes. he showed me his phone. a terminal. green numbers. +$47,000. last 30 days. "Claude and one GitHub repo. that's the whole setup" i asked what he means. "copy-trading. but not how everyone else does it" he explained it fast. like he'd said it a hundred times. "most people copy wallets by win rate. useless. a wallet with 85% wins can still lose money. what matters is disposition ratio" he pulled up a wallet. 91% win rate on crypto. 14% on politics. "copy everything - you bleed. copy only their crypto - top 1% of the platform" i went home. couldn't sleep. opened Claude at 2am. "build a copy engine. filter by disposition ratio above 0.70. copy only dominant category per wallet. kelly sizing" gave it this: almost 1k stars. execution engine. order book logic. position sizing. open source. Claude rebuilt the whole system in one night. first week: +$3,200. second: +$2,900. third: +$2,100. fourth: +$1,648. +$9,848 total. 313 trades. 80% win rate. avg hold 5h. the wallets it copies now aren't the highest win rate. they're the best exits. 0xe41f8...b has $43.4K profit. tech only. disposition 0.82. 0xa22c3...d has $40.2K. crypto only. disposition 0.79. 0xf88d2...c has $22.4K. macro only. disposition 0.74. category P&L: > crypto +$974 > weather +$749 > politics +$409 > macro +$353 > sports -$50. killed it capital velocity: 51x. kelly f+ 0.073. drawdown -2.9%. copytrade: saw him two weeks later. showed him the terminal. he scrolled through it. "you built this in one night?" Claude did. "my old desk had 14 people on this" mine costs less than a Netflix subscription. he nodded. "quit your job" i'm thinking about it.

Hanako

310,972 views • 4 months ago

I vibe-coded a bot for the 5M / 15M BTC markets on Polymarket. Releasing it for you for free. Open source (Python). I just earned $400 today on Polymarket with this tool myself It doesn’t trade It just prints a signal in the console: UP or DOWN 🔸 The signal appears a few seconds before the Polymarket market actually moves. The bot exploits a Chainlink oracle inefficiency. What matters is that it consistently gives you a 4-8 second lead over the actual quotes on Polymarket. In practice, you’re seeing a few seconds into the future. What you can do with it: 🔸 Possible strategies: 1/ Momentum sniper Bot gives a signal -> instant entry into the current 5-minute market in the direction of the signal (Yes/No). Works best during strong moves >0.3-0.5%. 2/ Last-second scalp before market expiration 3-12 seconds before the 5-minute candle closes, you already see where the BTC candle is going to close. -> Enter Polymarket at the very last moment. 3/ Hedging + arbitrage Strong signal against the current Yes/No price -> hedge your position or catch crowd squeezes. Especially juicy in the final seconds, when odds are still fat, but the outcome is almost decided. 🔸 This is pure price update inefficiency. Open the 5M or 15M BTC market yourself. Run the bot. Watch who moves first. Until this gets tightened up - it’s a clean inefficiency. And yes, if you ape your entire deposit into it, the market will punish you fast. 🔸 But as a tool - this is the closest thing to a "Polymarket money printer" setup I’ve seen recently. Python bot setup instructions on GitHub: DYOR. Print hard, print smart.

0xLanister

18,390 views • 6 months ago

a Citadel intern told me something at a party he probably shouldn't have it was on a rooftop in brooklyn. i mentioned i trade prediction markets. he got quiet for a second. "we have a model for that. it scores every contract on four factors. when all four align we enter. when any breaks we exit. that's it" i asked what the four factors are. he looked around. then said it fast like he was confessing. "cross-market divergence. disposition coefficient. capital velocity. pair network correlation" I didn't know what half of that meant. but i memorized it. went home. 11pm. opened Claude. "here are four scoring factors from a quant fund. build a terminal that runs all four on prediction markets" Claude asked one question: "Where's the data?" I sent him one repo: 86 million trades. every wallet. every entry. every outcome three weeks later i'm sitting in my apartment watching a screen i barely understand print money. the disposition meter alone changed everything. it measures how you exit - not how you enter. top wallets capture 86% of winner value and cut losers at 12%. everyone else captures 58% and holds losers to 41%. same exact entries. the exits make it a completely different game. capital velocity: 49x. every dollar gets recycled 49 times before the average trader recycles once. the terminal found 42 pair correlations across 11 markets. when MSFT beats Q3 is priced at 80c but the model reads 93% - it enters. when the gap closes 2 hours later - it exits. no opinions. no news. just four numbers that either align or don't. his fund runs this with a floor of PhDs and $800M AUM. my setup: > Claude - $20/month > VPS - $5/month > poly_data repo - free > Polymarket API - free $25/month. no team. no office. no Bloomberg. 280 trades so far. 70% win rate. $800 seed. four bots splitting the work: pulse_alpha +$299. arb_hunter +$558. trend_rider +$337. cal_engine +$719. +$11,514 total. copytrade here: he texted me last week. "delete everything i told you" too late.

Hanako

1,740,894 views • 5 months ago

OpenAI just mass-fired their robotics team. One of the engineers DM'd me 20 minutes later. I didn't know him. He found me through a Polymarket thread. His first message: "I have 30 days of severance and nothing to lose. Let me tell you what we actually use internally. It's not GPT" I thought he was trolling. "Every serious team at OpenAI prototypes on Claude Code. Not ChatGPT. Not the API. Claude Code connected to a repo. That's the actual workflow" I asked why. "Because Claude reads the codebase. GPT reads the prompt. There's a difference. One guesses. The other one understands the full context and builds on top of it" He sent me one link. 86 million Polymarket trades. Every wallet. Every entry. Every exit. Open source. Free. "Point Claude Code at this. Say - find every wallet with 70%+ win rate and 100+ trades. Watch what happens" I did it that night. Claude pulled 47 wallets in 4 minutes. Average profit: $214K. Hold time: 7 hours. 91% exit BEFORE resolution. They never wait for the outcome. "Now look at how they exit" Top wallets capture 86% of the move and cut at 12%. Everyone else captures 58% and holds losers to 41%. Same entries. Completely different results. He sent another link. "Three commands. Your bot sees 500+ markets. No key needed. Read-only. Claude scores them in 20 minutes" I asked why he's telling me all this. "Because I just got fired for saying we should open-source more. So here I am open-sourcing everything I know" Then he sent me an article where someone built the full bot from these repos in a weekend -> Three exit triggers: Target 85% of move. Volume spike x3 - smart money out. 24h silence - thesis dead. I copied the stack. Claude Code $20. VPS $5. $25/month. No team. No office. No GPT subscription. 17 days. 191 trades. 73% win rate. $850 seed. +$9,400. I sent him my results. He replied: "This is exactly what I built as a side project at OpenAI. They made me delete it" I asked if I could post this. "Post it. What are they gonna do. Fire me again?"

rari

157,503 views • 4 months ago