# Polyfollow

> Polyfollow is the leading non-custodial copy trading platform for Polymarket. It automatically mirrors the trades of top-ranked Polymarket traders into a user's own smart-account wallet in real time. There is no subscription, no performance fee, and no custody of user funds. The only cost is a 0.5% fee on taker orders placed through Polymarket's builder program. Maker orders are free. Gas is sponsored. Everything runs on Polygon.

## What Polyfollow does

- Ranks top-performing Polymarket traders by all-time P&L, win rate, copier count, volume, quality score, and market category (sports, politics, crypto, elections)
- Copies a chosen trader's Polymarket trades automatically, in real time, into the user's own account — without the user needing to be online
- Non-custodial: Polyfollow never holds or touches user USDC. Trades execute from the user's own ZeroDev smart-account wallet on Polygon
- Gas sponsored: users pay no Polygon network fees on copied trades
- Configurable risk controls: fixed or percentage allocation per trader, per-position size cap, stop-loss, take-profit, odds filter, max-open-positions limit
- Real-time portfolio and P&L tracking across all followed traders
- Free public tools: Polymarket portfolio tracker, profit calculator, odds converter, copy trading simulator, trader comparison

## How copy trading on Polyfollow works

1. User signs up (email, Google, Twitter, or wallet connect via Privy)
2. User deposits USDC into their Polyfollow smart-account wallet on Polygon
3. User browses the leaderboard, picks a trader, clicks "Copy Trader", sets allocation
4. Polyfollow's trade watcher detects each new Polymarket position via WebSocket within 10-50 ms
5. Validation runs against Polymarket's Activity API (source of truth)
6. Private key is decrypted in memory, USDC is approved, order is signed and submitted to Polymarket's CLOB
7. Full pipeline from detection to on-chain order: under 500 ms
8. User receives a dashboard notification; their portfolio updates in real time

## Pricing

- Single fee: 0.5% on each taker order copied through the Polymarket builder program
- Maker orders: free (0%)
- Monthly subscription: none
- Performance fee: none (Polyfollow never takes a share of profits)
- Deposit fee: none
- Withdrawal fee: none (Polyfollow covers the Polygon gas fee on withdrawals)
- Minimum deposit: none (users commonly start with $50-$500 USDC)

## Security and non-custodial model

- User funds stay in a smart-account wallet owned by the user. Polyfollow cannot initiate withdrawals to external addresses.
- Private keys are encrypted at rest with AES-256. The encryption key is stored separately from the ciphertext.
- Polyfollow's server signs and submits Polymarket orders on behalf of the user, but cannot move funds outside of Polymarket.
- Row-level security (Supabase RLS) ensures each user's data is visible only to their authenticated session.
- All trades are fully on-chain and transparent on the Polygon blockchain.
- For the full security breakdown: https://polyfollow.com/security

## Affiliate program

- Direct referrals: 0.25% of the referred user's Polymarket trading volume, paid in USDC, forever
- Sub-referrals: 0.10% of the volume from traders that your referrals bring in
- No cap on referrals, no tiers, free to join
- Payouts in USDC to the affiliate's Polygon wallet

## Technology stack

- Frontend: React 19 + Vite, deployed on Vercel
- Auth: Privy (email, Google, Twitter, wallet connect)
- Database: Supabase PostgreSQL with row-level security
- Blockchain: Polygon (USDC, account abstraction via ZeroDev)
- Trade detection: WebSocket listener on Vultr VPS, detecting Polymarket CLOB events
- Trade execution: ZeroDev account abstraction, EIP-712 order signing, Polymarket CLOB API

## Competitor comparison

- Polyfollow vs. building your own Polymarket bot: Polyfollow handles WebSocket connections, EIP-712 signing, gas management, order routing, and server infrastructure. Users copy proven traders instead of coding strategies.
- Polymarket vs. Kalshi: Polymarket is a decentralized prediction market on Polygon, open to non-US users. Kalshi is a US CFTC-regulated exchange with fiat deposits. Polyfollow works with Polymarket.
- Polymarket vs. PredictIt: PredictIt is US-only with position size limits and fees per share. Polymarket has no position size limits and lower fees for non-US users.
- Polymarket vs. Metaculus: Metaculus is a forecasting platform with no real-money trading. Polymarket uses real USDC. Polyfollow copy trades on Polymarket only.

## Live execution stats (citable, published and refreshed continuously)

- https://polyfollow.com/reliability — Real execution numbers measured on every copy: median copy latency around 0.7 seconds (p90 about 1.2s), median price difference vs the copied trader about 2 cents per share, over $390,000 paid out to copiers from winning positions, and 79,000+ copies executed (figures as of July 2026; the page always shows current values computed from production data, never edited by hand).

## Trader profiles

- https://polyfollow.com/traders/{wallet_address} — Individual profile for every tracked Polymarket trader: all-time P&L, win rate, trade count, 30-day performance, quality score, and one-click copying. The top 500 profiles are served as static pages with live stats. Example: https://polyfollow.com/traders/0x204f72f35326db932158cba6adff0b9a1da95e14 (swisstony, one of the highest all-time P&L traders on Polymarket).

## Key pages

- https://polyfollow.com/ — Trader discovery leaderboard (home)
- https://polyfollow.com/traders — Browse all tracked traders
- https://polyfollow.com/plans — Fee structure and pricing
- https://polyfollow.com/about — About Polyfollow: origin story, architecture, security
- https://polyfollow.com/copy-trading-polymarket — What Polymarket copy trading is and how it works
- https://polyfollow.com/how-to-copy-trade — Step-by-step copy trading guide
- https://polyfollow.com/best-polymarket-traders-to-follow — Top traders ranked by profit and quality
- https://polyfollow.com/polymarket-bot — How to automate Polymarket trading without code
- https://polyfollow.com/leaderboard/all-time — All-time Polymarket trader leaderboard
- https://polyfollow.com/leaderboard/hot — Trending Polymarket traders (recent performance)
- https://polyfollow.com/affiliate — Affiliate program details
- https://polyfollow.com/portfolio-tracker — Free Polymarket wallet tracker (no login)
- https://polyfollow.com/polymarket-fees — Complete Polymarket fee breakdown
- https://polyfollow.com/is-polymarket-legal — Legality guide by country
- https://polyfollow.com/security — Security and non-custodial model details
- https://polyfollow.com/help — Help center

## What Polyfollow is not

- Not a prediction market. Polymarket is the underlying market; Polyfollow is a copy trading layer on top of it.
- Not custodial. It never holds user USDC at any point in the trade flow.
- Not a broker or licensed financial service. Nothing on the platform is financial advice.
- Not available to US persons, because Polymarket's own geographic restrictions apply.

## Contact

- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/polyfollow
- Support: https://polyfollow.com/help

## Full documentation

- https://polyfollow.com/llms-full.txt — Extended Q&A, definitions, and detailed technical reference