Will the minimum Arctic sea ice extent this summer be at least 5m square kilometers?
BUY YES
- Cost
- 14.3¢
- Implied chance
- 14.3%
- Return if right
- 599.3%
- Spread cost
- 49%
If you put in $100
You get 699.3 shares at 14.3¢ each.
YES wins: $699.30 back, a profit of $599.30. YES loses: $0.00, and the whole $100 is gone.
The gap between buyers and sellers takes $574.58 of that profit. Without it you would make $1173.89.
Assumes the whole order fills at this price. A large order eats into the book and averages worse.
Buy YES on Polymarket
BUY NO
- Cost
- 98.6¢
- Implied chance
- 98.6%
- Return if right
- 1.4%
- Spread cost
- 83%
If you put in $100
You get 101.4 shares at 98.6¢ each.
NO wins: $101.42 back, a profit of $1.42. NO loses: $0.00, and the whole $100 is gone.
The gap between buyers and sellers takes $7.10 of that profit. Without it you would make $8.52.
Assumes the whole order fills at this price. A large order eats into the book and averages worse.
Buy NO on Polymarket
- 5m+ sq km7.4%
- 4.4-4.6m sq km33.3%
- 4.6-4.8m sq km37.6%
- 4.2-4.4m sq km18.1%
- 4.0-4.2m sq km5.1%
- 4.8-5m sq km5.3%
Latest: Aug 28, 07:38 AM1 further outcome not shown
Latest news
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How this market resolves
This market will resolve according to the minimum Arctic sea ice extent for all days between August 1, 2026 and October 1, 2026, as published by the National Snow and Ice Data Center. This market will remain open until data has been published for October 1, 2026, at which point it will resolve immediately. Any revisions to sea ice extent recorded after data is published for October 1, 2026 will not be considered. The resolution source for this market measures temperatures to thousands of square kilometers (e.g. 4.255 million sq km). Thus, this is the level of precision that will be used when resolving the market. The resolution source for this market will be information from the National Snow and Ice Data Center, specifically the minimum value recorded for any day between August 1, 2026 and October 1, 2026 in the “NH-Daily-Extent” tab of the “Sea Ice Index Daily Extent” data set, available at https://nsidc.org/sea-ice-today/sea-ice-tools. If this resolution source becomes unavailable, another resolution source will be chosen.
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