Dispute Database / ukraine-minerals
Ukraine agrees to Trump mineral deal before April?
Polymarket Oracle manipulation · 2025-03 · $7.0M · status: resolved
What happened
With no deal signed, a whale deployed ~5M UMA tokens across three accounts (~25% of round voting power) to force a premature 'Yes.' Odds jumped 9%→100% in a day. Polymarket called it 'unprecedented' but 'not a market failure' — no refunds.
Resolution outcome
Resolved Yes (incorrectly); no refunds; UMA monitoring changes announced.
The drafting lesson
The oracle itself is an attack surface. Adjudication risk is scored separately in the RuleScore rubric.
Failure type — Oracle manipulation: Token-weighted oracle voting is captured or steered by economically interested whales.
Sources
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"Ukraine agrees to Trump mineral deal before April?," Brierly Dispute Database, Polymarket (2025-03). brierlyresearch.com/dispute/ukraine-minerals.
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Brierly Research. (2026). Ukraine agrees to Trump mineral deal before April? [Dispute case]. Brierly Dispute Database. https://brierlyresearch.com/dispute/ukraine-minerals
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