Polymarket trader 0xA2 books $917K as Democrats sweep the midterms

A single wallet topped Polymarket's daily leaderboard, but most of its gains still depend on how Alaska's Senate race shakes out Democrats took control of both the House of Representatives and the Senate in the 2026 midterms, a result widely read as a crushing blow to President Donald Trump. One Polymarket trader saw it coming early, and the payday shows it. A wallet identified as 0xA2 ranked as the most profitable trader on the prediction market platform over the past 24 hours, according to Polymarket’s daily leaderboard. The account is sitting on roughly $917,000 in profit. There is one catch: most of that money is still riding on a position that has not yet settled. How one wallet turned a long shot into a leaderboard win The core of 0xA2’s haul is a single bold bet. The trader put $609,644 on the outcome that Republicans would fail to win any of the Senate battleground states. When the position was opened, the market priced that scenario at a 36% probability. By the time results approached, the odds had climbed to 87%. That shift pushed the position’s estimated value to $1.48 million. The unrealized gains on it come to approximately $860,000. Unrealized is the key word. Those g...