Politics accounts for 81% of volume as top-50 trading cools
The same DeFi Rate board, read this run, splits its 50 most-traded markets as politics with 35 markets and $25M, sports with 12 markets and $4.9M and crypto with 3…
The 50 most-traded prediction markets on the DeFi Rate board recorded $31M in volume over 24 hours, with politics accounting for most of that activity. The snapshot, published Nov 5, 2026 at 10:54 AM ET, showed further cooling in the board’s trading total.
Politics retains the largest share
According to the DeFi Rate board summary, politics occupied 35 of the 50 market slots and generated $25M in volume, representing 81% of the total. Its dominance therefore extended beyond the number of listed markets to their share of trading activity.
Sports accounted for 12 markets and $4.9M in volume. Crypto occupied the remaining 3 slots, but the supplied summary cuts off before providing that category’s trading volume.
The available figures describe activity within this top-50 board, rather than across all prediction markets. Although the snapshot indicates that volume cooled further, the supplied material includes no earlier total against which to measure the decline.
What it means for prediction markets
- Activity is concentrated in politics: With 81% of reported volume, political markets largely shaped the aggregate trading picture for this board.
- Category breadth differs sharply: Sports had 12 entries and crypto 3, compared with politics’ 35. Those counts describe representation, not individual market liquidity.
- The trend has limits: Without a prior-period figure or a complete crypto-volume breakdown, this snapshot cannot establish the size of the slowdown or each category’s contribution to it.
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