Running a Live Manipulation Test on Prediction Markets

Quick recap of what I did: I ran a real-world stress test on a prediction market platform by intentionally gaming the system. The whole point? To prove how vulnerable these markets actually are to manipulation.

The outcome was exactly what I expected. Look, if profit was the objective here, things would've played out very differently. But that wasn't the mission. This was about exposing structural weaknesses in real-time, creating a transparent on-chain record that anyone can verify.

Prediction markets get hyped as these unbiased truth machines, but my experiment shows they're way more fragile than people think. When someone with enough capital and strategy decides to move the needle, these platforms fold pretty fast. The data's all there on-chain for anyone who wants to dig into it.

Bottom line: we need to talk more honestly about the exploit risks in these systems before we treat them as reliable sources of truth.