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Easy· 2026-02-17 19:09
Have you traded the Polymarket 5min markets?Better question, if you have, have you wondered why all of a sudden in the last 30 or so seconds, there are times where the 'underdog odds' SKYROCKET&& as the market concludes, that surging side wins?It's fairly straightforward- Polymarket uses Chainlinks Data Streams to track prices- Chainlinks API operates within sub-seconds- Polymarkets UI however is delayed / lags by up to as much as 1 full minuteThis is latency arbitrage, and why the 5min markets, are a BOTS ...