A Polymarket user identified as 0xafEe made more than $1.19 million last month thanks to highly accurate bets on Google search trends, raising strong suspicions of insider trading.
This trader previously went by the name AlphaRacoon, but later changed his username to 0xafEe. Mainly focused on Google search trendsas the “Most Searched Person of 2025” or product launches, but has also branched out into sports.
In the “Most Searched People on Google in 2025” event, he picked “Yes” for a singer named d4vd and won $200,000. Similarly, they invested in saying “no” to favorite candidates such as Donald Trump, Pope Leo XIV, Bianca Censoli, and Zoran Mamdani.
In November, 0xafEe accurately predicted the release date of Gemini 3.0, Google’s artificial intelligence model, and made a profit of $173,000 before it was made public.
0xafEe, in some cases Sell stocks before market final resolution to secure profits. For example, if you buy at a low price and the price rises on news, liquidate your position without waiting for the official end of the trade.
Accuracy of 0xafEe has caused a warning in the community. “This is one of the wildest things I’ve seen on this platform,” wrote Jeong Haeju, a user of Polymarket and other prediction markets. It ensures that the bettor is someone who is operating with insider information from the Google company, which allows him to achieve such a level of success. He said it was “Google employees exploiting polymarkets to make a quick buck.”
As described by CriptoNoticias Cryptopedia, Polymarket is the largest prediction market in the digital asset ecosystem, betting on presidential elections, sporting events, and other outcomes. Polymarket founder Shayne Coplan said in November: Insider trading is actually allowed and even encouragedThis is to facilitate the efficient release of data to the market.
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