---
type: source
title: "Polymarket: P2P Protocol Public Sale commitment prediction market — probability cascade to 99.8% on ICO launch day"
author: "Polymarket"
url: https://polymarket.com/event/total-commitments-for-the-p2p-protocol-public-sale-on-metadao
date: 2026-03-26
domain: internet-finance
secondary_domains: []
format: data
status: processed
priority: high
tags: [polymarket, p2p-protocol, prediction-markets, futarchy, metadao, social-proof, manipulation]
---

## Content

Polymarket prediction market: "Total commitments for the P2P Protocol public sale on MetaDAO"
- Market opened: March 14, 2026
- Market closes: July 1, 2026
- 25 outcome tiers
- Total trading volume: $1.7M

Current probabilities as of March 26, 2026 (ICO launch day):

| Outcome | Probability |
|---------|------------|
| >$1M | 100% |
| >$2M | 100% |
| >$3M | 100% |
| >$4M | 100% |
| >$6M | ~99.8% |
| >$8M | 97% |
| >$10M | 93% |
| >$12M | 88% |
| >$14M | 77% |
| >$16M | 75% |
| >$18M–$20M | 67% |
| >$25M | 47% |
| >$30M | 43% |
| >$50M | 25% |
| >$100M | 9% |

Previous observed probability for >$6M: 77% (as of ~March 14 when archived in Session 11 research)

Implied median prediction: ~$20-25M total commitments.

**Context — Polymarket controversy (from prior research):**
Session 11 (March 25) documented: traders in the Polymarket comment section alleged that the P2P team "openly participated" in the commitment prediction market. Polymarket rules prohibit market participants from influencing outcomes they're trading on. The allegation is unconfirmed, but structurally novel: team buying ">$6M" tranche to signal community confidence creates circular social proof (team buys → price increases → generates social proof → attracts real commitments → validates original purchase). Unlike governance market self-dealing, no arbitrage correction mechanism exists because the team is the most informed actor.

**Actual ICO commitments as of March 26 (Futardio archive):** $6,852 committed of $6,000,000 target. ICO closes March 30. 4 days remaining.

## Agent Notes

**Why this matters:** The gap between $6,852 actual commitments and 99.8% Polymarket confidence for >$6M on ICO launch day is the most direct available test of the circular social proof mechanism hypothesized in Session 11. Either commitments surge in the final 4 days (mechanism worked correctly), or the market was inflated (manipulation thesis gains evidence).

**What surprised me:** The probability shift from 77% to 99.8% on launch day itself. This implies either (a) massive new information arrived justifying the shift, or (b) the market is tracking actual commitment flow in near-real-time as traders observe MetaDAO ICO commitments and trade accordingly. The $1.7M trading volume on a single ICO prediction market is substantial — this is a highly liquid market for a relatively small ICO.

**What I expected but didn't find:** Evidence that the team's alleged Polymarket participation has been confirmed or denied by Polymarket. The platform hasn't issued a public statement. The market continues operating normally despite the controversy.

**KB connections:**
- prediction markets show superior accuracy over polls and expert forecasts (Belief #1 evidence — is this market showing superior accuracy or being manipulated?)
- FairScale's manipulation attempt by team demonstrates futarchy's self-correcting mechanism (contrast case — FairScale governance market had an arbitrage correction; Polymarket social proof doesn't)
- Session 11 CC2: Prediction market participation by issuers in own ICO commitment markets creates circular social proof with no arbitrage correction

**Extraction hints:**
1. The circular social proof mechanism (CC2 from Session 11) — the mechanism claim is novel and KB-ready
2. Evidence for/against: if ICO raises >$6M by March 30, Polymarket was directionally correct (doesn't prove manipulation was absent); if ICO fails, Polymarket was wrong despite 99.8% confidence (strong evidence of manipulation)
3. The $1.7M trading volume on this prediction market is itself a data point about prediction market liquidity for ICO social proof purposes

**Context:** Polymarket is the largest prediction market platform by volume. The P2P.me ICO is a MetaDAO futarchy-governed public sale on Solana. The prediction market and the ICO are separate mechanisms, but in this case the prediction market output (commitment probability) may be feeding back into ICO commitment decisions.

## Curator Notes (structured handoff for extractor)

PRIMARY CONNECTION: Session 11 CC2 — "Prediction market participation by project issuers in their own ICO commitment markets creates circular social proof with no arbitrage correction"

WHY ARCHIVED: The probability shift from 77% to 99.8% on launch day combined with only $6,852 actual commitments creates a testable tension. This is the most direct current evidence for or against the circular social proof mechanism. ALSO: the raw probability cascade data is the primary input for any claim about Polymarket's accuracy on futarchy ICO markets.

EXTRACTION HINT: Wait for ICO close (March 30) and Polymarket resolution (July 1) before extracting the final claim. The mechanism claim can be extracted now; the empirical confirmation/disconfirmation must wait. Flag as "extract after resolution" for the highest-confidence version.
