Polymarket traders profit by millions ahead of Trump's Venezuela strike confirmation

On Saturday, prediction market users reportedly made millions of dollars within minutes by wagering on Donald Trump's military strike against Venezuela before it was publicly confirmed. One Polymarket trader said he earned $80,000 overnight after tracking U.S. military signals and building a bot that monitored pizza orders near the Pentagon, while another account turned over $30,000 into about $400,000 on a market tied to Nicolás Maduro's removal from power. Following Trump's announcement of a large-scale operation and Maduro's capture, regulators renewed scrutiny of prediction platforms as Bitcoin surged back above $91,000 and leveraged shorts worth more than $60 million were liquidated.