THE WIDER TAPE
The board is the five markets I find interesting. This is the opposite exercise: one whole venue, every listed contract, read cold. Most of what a prediction-market venue lists never trades — and which questions go untouched is itself a read. That's the data I use to write missing-market specs.
Read-only. No trade links, nothing to click through, not financial advice. Venue: Pascal (private beta) — numbers straight from its public data API, USDC notional.
THE VENUE AT A GLANCE
CONTRACTS LISTED
3203
NEVER TRADED
2747 (86%)
QUIET LAST 24H
3135
24H NOTIONAL, WHOLE VENUE
$76,856
977 events, 3203 contracts, and 2747 of them have never printed a single trade. That's not a dunk — every venue's tape looks like this before the crowd shows up. It's the honest baseline: attention, not listings, is the scarce thing.
WHERE THE VOLUME ACTUALLY IS
| MARKET | MARK | 24H | OI |
|---|---|---|---|
Nevada Governor Winner DEMOCRATS | 48% | $24,219 | $4,703 |
Senate control after 2026 midterms DEMOCRATIC PARTY | 64% | $13,984 | $50,672 |
Nebraska Senate Winner REPUBLICANS | 71% | $9,767 | $7,922 |
Texas Governor Winner REPUBLICANS | 82% | $6,539 | $5,129 |
MN-05 House Winner DEMOCRATS | 98% | $4,150 | $4,402 |
Georgia Governor Winner DEMOCRATS | 50% | $2,444 | $3,223 |
Texas Governor Winner DEMOCRATS | 19% | $2,285 | $6,129 |
Texas Senate Winner DEMOCRATS | 63% | $1,394 | $15,972 |
TOP 8 BY 24H TAKER NOTIONAL · PULLED 2026-10-01 18:40:50 UTC · REFRESHES ~60S
WHY I READ AN EMPTY TAPE
A market with no trades is a question priced by nobody — which means the listing itself was a guess about what people want to know. When most of a venue's guesses go untouched, the interesting question isn't "why is it quiet" — it's what would a market people actually showed up for look like? That's the missing-market problem, and it's the one I work on daily.