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
2435
NEVER TRADED
2241 (92%)
QUIET LAST 24H
2399
24H NOTIONAL, WHOLE VENUE
$6,670
784 events, 2435 contracts, and 2241 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
Shayne Coplan out as Polymarket CEO by AUG 31, 2026 | 12% | $4,382 | $16,750 |
Largest company by market cap - Aug 31, 2026 NVIDIA | 97% | $422 | $774 |
Philadelphia Union vs Club Santos Laguna (Reg Time) CLUB SANTOS LAGUNA | 100% | $400 | $423 |
Fed rate hike by DEC 09 | 54% | $360 | $2,000 |
STRC closing price on SEP 30 [$0, $100] | 88% | $351 | $15,053 |
Shelton vs Nakashima, Moneyline BEN SHELTON | 89% | $136 | $200 |
Where 2026 ranks among the hottest years on record HOTTEST (1ST) | 67% | $122 | $0 |
2026 Clacton by-election margin of victory FARAGE 60%+ | 15% | $102 | $334 |
TOP 8 BY 24H TAKER NOTIONAL · PULLED 2026-08-14 01:01:18 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.