Trump recalled the shooting in an interview, saying "the world has gone crazy"; Polymarket's 32 betting market was forcibly settled as No, leaving crypto users with heavy losses.

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On April 25, 2026, a shooting occurred at the White House Correspondents' Association dinner. Suspect Cole Allen breached the Secret Service perimeter with a shotgun, forcing Trump to be urgently evacuated before he could take the stage to speak. Instantly, 32 Polymarket contracts related to the dinner speech were forcibly settled as "No," wiping out approximately $278,000 in total wagers. However, BTC rose instead of falling, rebounding from $77,200 to $79,192, as the market demonstrated an unusual resilience to political tail risks. (Context: Doors opened! Polymarket received partial legal exemption from the CFTC, allowing it to return to the US market.) (Background: The "Zheng-Xi" handshake caused the top 50 Polymarket accounts to lose $200k: prediction comments were in shambles, with some telling "Qingniao" to shut up.) The sound of Secret Service gunfire echoed outside the Washington Hilton. Hundreds of reporters and dignitaries on the scene may not have realized what was happening—but traders on Polymarket who bet that "Trump would say 'crypto' or 'tariff' during his speech" saw their positions wiped out without warning. Minutes before the 112th White House Correspondents' Association (WHCA) dinner began on Saturday, April 25, a man breached the Secret Service outer checkpoint and ran toward the ballroom with a weapon. The Secret Service engaged the suspect, subdued him, and simultaneously evacuated Trump, Melania, Vice President JD Vance, and several cabinet officials. One Secret Service agent was shot but saved by a bulletproof vest and is expected to make a full recovery; there were no other casualties on the scene. The WHCA dinner was a popular event contract scenario on Polymarket. This year, 32 related contracts revolved around a core question: What keywords would Trump mention in his speech? Betting options included "tariff," "China," "crypto," "Bitcoin," and "Elon," with a total trading volume of approximately $278,000. As Trump failed to take the stage, Polymarket followed its rules and forcibly settled all 32 contracts as "No"—all users who bet "Yes" saw their positions instantly liquidated. This was not a failure of market prediction, but the underlying event itself being canceled by external forces: an act of political violence that directly erased the principal of hundreds of traders. The irony of this scene is profound. Just two days before the incident (April 24), Trump publicly commented on the Polymarket Maduro insider betting scandal, stating, "the whole world has become somewhat of a casino." The day after the incident (April 26), in an interview with CBS's *60 Minutes*, he said, "We live in a crazy world." Within three days, the same person, in the same context—from a casino to a crazy world—saw the Polymarket settlement dispute and real political violence converge on the same narrative line. The contrast in the suspect's identity is the most unsettling part of this incident. 31-year-old Cole Tomas Allen, from Torrance, California, is a Caltech alumnus and works as a teacher and engineer, having once been named "Teacher of the Year." On the night of the incident, he carried a shotgun, a handgun, and a knife. After breaching the checkpoint, he advanced toward the ballroom with his weapon and was tackled and subdued after exchanging fire with law enforcement. According to CBS, Allen sent a manifesto to his family minutes before the incident, and his brother reported it to the police immediately—but it was too late to stop him. In the manifesto, Allen called himself a "Friendly Federal Assassin" and explicitly listed his targets: "Trump administration officials, ranked from the highest level down." He wrote, "I can no longer stand by and watch what this administration is doing." He also deliberately declared, "Law enforcement, hotel staff, and guests are not my targets, but if necessary, I will attack them to get to high-ranking government officials—I really hope it doesn't come to that." Trump described his reaction in the CBS interview: when the shots rang out, he did not immediately realize the severity, saying he "wasn't worried, wanted to observe the situation," and at one point did not cooperate with the Secret Service's rapid evacuation; he and Melania eventually ducked and were escorted away. Regarding Allen's motive, Trump commented, "He is likely a person in a very bad mental state." Allen is scheduled to appear in federal court on Monday, April 27, charged with "use of a firearm during a violent crime" and "assaulting a federal officer with a dangerous weapon." The crypto market's reaction defied some intuitive expectations. The day before the incident (ear

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