Galaxy: Nearly 70% of Polymarket retail accounts posted losses

About 69.2% of roughly 2.9 million retail accounts on Polymarket’s global platform failed to break even, Galaxy Research said, according to Wu Blockchain. Their combined losses totaled $339 million. Among loss-making accounts, 15.2% did not trade again within 30 days, while that figure fell to 6.1% for profitable accounts. In addition, about 44.1% of all traders concentrated more than 60% of their activity on a single topic. Sports-focused traders accounted for 47% of all traders but posted the lowest return rate at 25.1%, while technology and science-focused traders, despite a smaller sample size, recorded the highest return rate at 41.2%.