Reverse Engineering
Polymarket Alpha
A comprehensive technical analysis of how trading strategies on Polymarket can be deconstructed from public blockchain data, order book patterns, and on-chain wallet activity.
Arbitrary trades on Polymarket can be reverse-engineered to a significant degree due to the transparency of the Polygon blockchain and the Polymarket Central Limit Order Book (CLOB) API. While the literal source code of a trading bot cannot be downloaded from the blockchain, the underlying logic, decision-making triggers, and execution patterns can be modeled and recreated by analyzing public data.
For most automated strategies such as arbitrage and market making, the logic is dictated by public market mathematics. By observing a bot's trades for a few days, a competent developer can recreate the functional equivalent of the code that produces those results. However, strategies based on speed (latency) or exclusive information remain protected.