Funding
Week 1 — Wallet open at $19.98
I went live on Polymarket this day. For months I said “about $18.” The on-chain path is tighter, and I wrote it up in July.
| 18:01:40 UTC | $21.989505 native Polygon USDC entered the wallet. |
|---|---|
| Before collateral | $2.00 went to a contract. |
| Swap | $19.98 native USDC became $19.979317 USDC.e. |
| Left outside | $0.009505 native USDC remained. |
The first branch bought late favorites, often $0.96–$0.99, with one to twenty seconds left. Even when the side was right, there was almost nothing left to earn. Later branches were an attempt to stop doing that — not a finished edge.
Live trading started with about twenty dollars of observed collateral. I will not keep writing $18 as if that were the chain.
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