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Podcast: Leviathan News
Episode: The Curious Case of Zelensky’s Suit, PolyMarket, UMA and the New Politics of Truth
Description: In this episode we untangle how a single photograph of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s black jacket became a $150-million flash-point on Polymarket, the largest crypto prediction exchange.The platform’s “optimistic oracle,” UMA, stalled three times on the question of whether Zelenskyy had “worn a suit before July,” then looked ready to rule No, even as mainstream outlets ran headlines calling the outfit a suit. We explain how UMA’s four-code voting system works, why one wallet with 1.3 million UMA tokens could swing a verdict, and how similar whale manoeuvres upended a $7 million Ukraine-minerals wager in March and fo...