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Over 30% of Polymarket wallets are now operated by AI agents, according to LayerHub analytics, with Polystrat – built on the Olas protocol by Valory AG – emerging as one of the most active. It executed 4,200 trades in its first month, with some positions returning 376%. More telling is the performance gap: 37% of agent-operated accounts are profitable versus roughly 7-13% for human traders. The agents tend to gravitate toward niche and localized markets that humans overlook, which could expand the long tail of prediction markets into areas like policy forecasting and business intelligence. Quantitative trading firms reshaped equity markets over the past two decades – prediction markets are compressing that same transition into months.
