In brief
- Traders on Polymarket are anticipating a potential token launch, and some users are looking to farm it.
- Last year, airdrop farming was visibly rampant, with many users engaging in obvious wash trading methods.
- Now, however, the wash trading has gotten more sophisticated while other farmers are just optimizing their use of the prediction market.
Users attempting to farm a potential Polymarket airdrop have upped their operations in an attempt to make it harder for the prediction market to exclude them. It follows recent Decrypt reporting that Polymarket plans to release a crypto token once it has regained a foothold in the United States—likely in 2026.
Last year, as many users anticipated that a token launch would follow the U.S. election, farmers bought and sold large positions to artificially inflate their volume. They did so in an effort to position themselves for a larger allocation of a future token airdrop, which are often designed to reward a crypto protocol’s most active and fervent users.
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Author: Ryan Gladwin
