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Eight short articles, from "what is a prediction market" to your first trade and reading the leaders. Written for someone who has never held crypto.

One example: how a bet becomes a share, and how this differs from a bookmaker and a stock exchange.

Five concepts you cannot use Polymarket without, and one mistake that costs real money.

Install, seed phrase, add the Polygon network, your first address. Twenty minutes, once.

The same steps on any exchange: sign up, verify, buy, withdraw on the right network. A test transfer is mandatory.

Two ways to sign in, where the deposit address is, how to confirm arrival, and what wallet "approvals" are.

Reading a market page, why a limit order beats a market order, what the spread is and how to collect after resolution.

Why you can lose everything at a 60% win rate, what share of the bankroll to stake, and the two habits of survivors.

What the score means, how to read a wallet page, what the feed and forward test are for, and what the site does not do.

Reference

Shorter pieces on mechanics and on judging traders.

The mechanics in ten minutes: what a price means, how markets resolve, where fees apply.

Profit is the least useful number on a profile. What to look at instead, with our own measurements.

Where the balance lives, what it costs to move, and how to not lose a deposit to the wrong network.

Not advice. A checklist of the questions whose answers depend on where you live.