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Polymarket sued over dispute over Strategy's sale of a Bitcoin prediction market.

According to Mars Finance, on July 7th, two plaintiffs filed a lawsuit against Polymarket, accusing it of breach of contract and deceptive conduct in a prediction market related to whether Strategy would sell Bitcoin by the end of May. According to the complaint filed on July 3rd in the New York State Supreme Court, plaintiffs William Wood and Thomas Bush named Polymarket, its CEO Shayne Coplan, Chief Marketing Officer Matthew Modabber, and other related entities and individuals as defendants. The complaint alleges that the two plaintiffs held a "Yes" position in a binary prediction market that asked whether Strategy would sell any Bitcoin holdings by May 31st. According to Strategy's Form 8-K filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the company did sell 32 Bitcoins (BTC) between May 26th and 31st. However, the plaintiffs point out that Polymarket ultimately ruled the market "No." They stated that the platform added a clarification before settlement, effectively changing the criterion from "whether the sale was completed before May 31st" to "whether the sale was publicly confirmed before May 31st." Due to this change in criteria, although Strategy had sold Bitcoin within the deadline, the prediction market was ultimately ruled "no" on June 3rd via a UMA vote (the mechanism Polymarket uses to adjudicate disputed markets).
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Two traders sue Polymarket over disputed market settlement results.

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07-08 20:04Important

Analysis: Bitcoin may be entering a period of bottoming out; Strategy's sale of Bitcoin did not trigger panic.

According to a recent report by Bitfinex Alpha, as Odaily by Odaily, Strategy recently conducted its first large-scale Bitcoin sale, but the market showed strong resilience and no significant selling pressure emerged. Bitcoin rebounded after hitting a low of $57,803 on July 1st, and its performance in July remains positive, consistent with the views expressed in Bitfinex Alpha's previous report (No. 212), suggesting a potential market correction this month. Data shows that Strategy may have executed a BTC sale between June 29 and July 2, but the price of Bitcoin still saw a positive weekly increase during the same period, rising approximately 10.5% from its cycle low. Furthermore, on the last trading day of last week and the first trading day of this week, Bitcoin spot ETFs recorded inflows exceeding $200 million per day, ending a previous 10-day streak of net outflows, with a cumulative outflow of $2.73 billion. June was a challenging month for Bitcoin ETFs, with net outflows for nine consecutive weeks, reaching nearly $4.06 billion in June alone. However, these redemptions primarily reflect authorized participants (APs) returning ETF units and a decrease in passive funding demand, rather than indicating a large-scale immediate sale of Bitcoin through on-chain markets. The market is currently unable to fully determine whether investors have digested recent changes in fund flows, but spot trading volume does not fully reflect the impact of the previous large-scale outflows. With changes in ETF asset allocation and a return to positive fund flows, the Bitcoin market may face new variables in July. After a brief dip following the announcement of the Strategy sale, BTC prices quickly stabilized and have now returned to the lower end of the first quarter trading range, exceeding pre-announcement levels. ETF fund flows have recorded net inflows for three consecutive trading days, and the $61,000 level has become a crucial dividing line between bullish and bearish forces in the market. Bitcoin is currently in a downtrend on a higher timeframe, but the market structure is changing. Approximately 10.83 million BTC are currently in an unrealized loss state, while about 9.22 million BTC remain profitable, marking the first time that the number of losing BTC has exceeded the number of profitable BTC. Historically, this phase typically indicates significant pressure on spot holders and often approaches the bottoming phase of a bear market. However, a true macro bottom still needs confirmation from key indicators, such as Bitcoin consistently recovering to its current "True Market Mean" of around $71,500. While the current market environment may dampen sentiment in the short term, it also creates conditions for long-term funds to absorb selling pressure. As long-term holders and some whale re-accumulate, Bitcoin is shifting from low-conviction holders to high-conviction investors, and the next two to three months may be a crucial window for confirming a temporary bottom.

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VanEck executive: Strategy's $135 million Bitcoin sale last week did not use up its BTC Monetization Program quota.

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