PolymarketCryptoConfirmed moveUpdated 9m ago

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As of Oct 20, 2026, 2:23 PM ET, Polymarket priced this market at 8.5% (up from 6.5% 24 hours earlier). It had $94.3K traded in the past 24 hours, $82.4K of order-book liquidity and a bid-ask spread of 1.0 pts. probcast.co rates the support behind this price as strong.

Market probability
8.5%
+2 percentage points
over 24 hours6.5% → 8.5%

Deep, easy-to-trade market — and today's move was spread across many accounts.

Price historyPolymarket

Source: Polymarket price history

How credible was the move?

Methodology →

Move validity

Strong

Consensus stability

Forming

Contract clarity

High

Can you trust this price?

Two different questions: how hard the price is to move, and whose trading set it.

Market capacity

How hard is it to move this price?

DeepTight spread

Order-book liquidity

$82.4K

Bid-ask spread

1.0 pts

24h volume

$94.3K

Total volume

$740.7K

It would take roughly $1.4K of buying to move the price up by ~5 pts.

Lots of money on the book and a tight spread — a single ordinary order can't move this price much.

Who's trading

Whose opinion is this price?

Broad participation
25%of the traded money came from the single largest account

Accounts

99

Trades

200

over 39 days

Largest order

$1K

$11.9K traded across these 200 trades (last 39 days).

Many independent accounts traded — the price reflects a crowd, not one trader.

Recent trade activity$11.9K traded

From the latest trade tape (most recent 200 prints) — a live activity sample, not a lifetime total.

What this market actually measures

This market will resolve to "Yes" if any Binance 1 minute candle for Ethereum (ETH/USDT) between the creation of this market through 11:59 PM ET on the last day of the year specified in the title has a final “Low” price equal to or lower than the price specified in the title. Otherwise, this market will resolve to "No".

This summary shows the opening of the venue's official rules. ProbCast has not yet generated an independent plain-English interpretation for this contract — review the full rules before relying on it.

View full official resolution rules

This market will resolve to "Yes" if any Binance 1 minute candle for Ethereum (ETH/USDT) between the creation of this market through 11:59 PM ET on the last day of the year specified in the title has a final “Low” price equal to or lower than the price specified in the title. Otherwise, this market will resolve to "No". Price action before this market's creation will not be considered. The resolution source for this market is Binance, specifically the ETH/USDT “Low” prices available at https://www.binance.com/en/trade/ETH_USDT, with the chart settings on "1m" for one-minute candles selected on the top bar. Please note that the outcome of this market depends solely on the price data from the Binance ETH/USDT trading pair. Prices from other exchanges, different trading pairs, or spot markets will not be considered for the resolution of this market.

Resolution source: binance.com

What could move this market next?

  • The market's deadline arrivesJanuary 1, 2027 at 12:00 AM ET

    The contract must resolve based on what has happened by this date.

  • Confirmation at the resolution source (binance.com)

    The rules name this source as the basis for settlement.

Derived from the contract's own mechanics as of Oct 20, 2:32 PM ET. ProbCast does not list scheduled meetings, announcements, or data releases it cannot verify.

Advanced analysis (experimental)

Research signals — these models are still accumulating the history needed for full validation, and they can disagree with the headline read. Model confidence: high · expected error ±10 pts.

Trading normallyLegacy movement classifier: meaningful

What's happening

medium classifier confidence
Trading normally

Liquid, two-sided, and calm. The current price reads as settled consensus — the latest print is a reasonable summary of what the market believes.

  • Liquid, two-sided, and calm — price behaving as settled consensus

The latest price is a usable but caveated read — weigh it with the market state.

More details — reliability score, dynamics, durability
Reliability score
52Medium
Where the price path tends to go next277 observed
  • Stable consensus94%
  • Choppy / mean-reverting4%
  • Trend continuation2%

Short-term motion of the price line (~1h), distinct from the environment above — not a prediction of the final outcome.

DurabilityHigh· half-life ~34h
PredictabilityStable

A read-only classification of the market environment — how much weight the current price deserves as a read of consensus. It describes conditions, never a trade.

Change (pts)1H0.06H+2.024H+2.07D+2.0

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