Correction: anomaly signals are not proof
This article previously repeated named cases, exact profits, legal claims, and hypothetical detection claims without retaining the dated source evidence needed to defend them. Those claims have been retracted rather than refreshed from memory or secondary summaries.
Public trade records can show that an address traded, when a provider recorded the activity, and the available economic fields. They do not by themselves identify the person controlling a wallet or establish why a trade was made.
Start with provider facts
Record the provider timestamp, wallet address when exposed, market identity, side, price, size, and source freshness. Keep missing fields missing. Do not replace an unavailable provider value with a guessed zero or an authored estimate.
A 0xinsider row shows what we ingested, not an exchange-complete ledger. Wallet-level interpretation requires tracked Polymarket activity.
Treat scores as review priorities
A suspicious-trade flag records a heuristic anomaly score from the inputs available to that row. Higher scores prioritize evidence review; they are not calibrated probabilities, confidence levels, severity verdicts, or proof of misconduct.
Timing, price distance, size, and wallet freshness can each have ordinary explanations. A resolved-market score is backward-looking context and does not show that the system could have identified the activity prospectively.
Use clusters as context, not identity
Several wallets trading the same side in a narrow window is clustering context. It does not establish that one person controls the wallets or that the trades came from one decision. Similar timing can reflect shared public news, correlated strategies, market making, or coincidence.
Only supported fund-flow evidence can add an on-chain relationship between addresses, and even that relationship does not prove common control or intent. Preserve each alternative explanation in the review.
On 0xinsider, that evidence is the Wallet funding section of a covered trader's profile, which lists the addresses that sent the wallet pUSD and can compare them with a second wallet. The guide at 0xinsider.com/learn/how-to-track-polymarket-wallet-funding explains what it shows and what it cannot prove.
A reproducible review checklist
Save the exact route, provider timestamp, retrieval time, market identity, and visible fields. Compare the activity with independent public information and market liquidity. Record which facts are missing or partial.
Use anomaly flags and profile history to form questions, not verdicts. If a claim depends on a named person, legal action, exact profit, or causal explanation, retain and cite a dated authoritative source before publishing it. Otherwise leave the claim unknown.
