PolyBot

What it is

A Telegram bot, published as @TradePolyBot, and a Telegram Mini App that trade on Polymarket from a Safe smart wallet on Polygon. The product calls itself PolyBot, and the Telegram handle is the name most readers arrive with. The job is automation: copying other wallets and running your own rule-based strategies on crypto Up/Down markets. Manual market and limit orders, a portfolio and PnL cards sit around those.

Copy trading is capped at three subscriptions per wallet. Each follows one address, profile URL or @username, sized either as a fixed dollar amount (1.10 USD minimum) or as the leader's amount times a multiplier from 0.01 to 10. Sells mirror the leader's percentage, not their dollar amount. Controls cover a daily cap, a price range, slippage from a limit order at the leader's price to unlimited, market or limit execution with separate buy and sell settings, per-outcome purchase limits, maximum expiry, minimum and maximum leader size, and category filters with sport and coin subcategories. Counter-trade and buy-only modes exist. Copied positions can carry their own stop loss, take profit and trailing stop.

Auto Trader is your own rules on crypto Up/Down markets, set by asset and timeframe with an entry window, price triggers, exits and circuit breakers. HFT Strategies is a side feature with the opposite division of labour: PolyBot's own signal decides what to trade, when and how much, with capital you set aside for it. It is opt-in, absent from the home page and the site's marketing pages, one of 25 docs guides and fifth of eight features in the docs' overview. This card lists the bot for the copy trading and the rules you write; Limitations sets out what the docs disclose about the part PolyBot decides.

The rest. Presets for take-profit, stop-loss and trailing exits that can apply automatically to every fill. Standalone stop losses. Price and large-trade alerts. Auto-claim, off by default. Parlays of two to eight legs from 1.10 USD. Group commands that turn pasted market and profile links into cards. Trading competitions ranked by volume. Robin Yield, a feature-gated beta that deposits outcome shares you already hold into an external Robin vault contract. Two-factor authentication for withdrawals and key export. Nine languages.

Availability

PolyBot excludes the United States in its own words. The overview, the quickstart and the FAQ each close on the line that PolyBot "is not available to U.S. persons or people located in the U.S.", and the site footer adds "not available in certain jurisdictions". The quickstart asks you to accept terms and a compliance confirmation inside the bot, and lists eligibility to use PolyBot and Polymarket in your location as a prerequisite. Orders go to Polymarket's international order book, so Polymarket's own blocklist binds as well, and it covers the United Kingdom and most of western Europe. The jurisdictions above are that venue's reach.

There is no identity check. You start the bot with a Telegram account, accept the terms, and the Safe is deployed. Nothing asks for a document.

The terms are not published outside the bot. The documentation refers to "the current terms", but neither the website nor the docs host a copy: the obvious terms and privacy paths on the site return 404. The docs name no company, jurisdiction or governing law. A reader cannot read the contract before starting the bot, and this card could not either.

Documentation and site read on 30 September 2026; the documentation pages carry a last-updated date of 20 July 2026.

Pricing

1% of trading volume, on top of Polymarket. The overview, the FAQ and the referral guide all give the same standard rate, and the referral guide's worked example fixes the base: a 100 USD fill pays a 1.00 USD PolyBot fee. That is a percentage of what the fill costs, not of what it pays out, so the fields above read 0.5%: on a 50-cent contract the fee is half a cent, which is 0.5% of the dollar the contract pays. At 90 cents it is 0.9% of the payout, at 10 cents 0.1%.

The docs do not exempt limit orders or sells, and the limit-sell review screen lists a fee, so the maker field carries the same number. Polymarket's own fee on the same fill is separate, and PolyBot's docs do not mention it. On a taker fill the two add up.

The rate is not fixed. Both the overview and the FAQ say promotions and account-specific overrides can change the effective fee, and that the confirmation screen before each trade is the source of truth. A reader who wants to know what they will pay has to read that screen every time.

What is free. Normal wallet actions, deposits and withdrawals run on sponsored gas, so you never hold POL. Bridge and swap providers on cross-chain deposit routes may charge their own costs, shown in the flow. The deposit picker, not the docs, lists current networks and minimums.

Referrers get 25% of PolyBot's fee on their direct referrals' fills, 5% one level down and 3% at the third, claimable from 5 USD. The docs call all three figures runtime defaults the bot can change.

Documentation read on 30 September 2026.

Markets & resolution

Every market is Polymarket's, collateralised in pUSD on Polygon and resolved through Polymarket's own process. Auto-claim redeems resolved positions periodically once you switch it on.

Two features hold something other than a plain position. A parlay is an all-or-nothing combination that loses if one leg loses, priced by multiplying leg prices into an estimate. The executable quote can differ when a leg moves, liquidity changes or the size is too large. Robin Yield deposits filled outcome shares into a third-party Robin vault, which credits them at a variable rate the quote splits into base, matching and points components; a withdrawal returns the shares and whatever the vault's contract has credited. The docs do not say where that rate comes from. It adds smart-contract risk and a second withdrawal step to the position's own market risk.

Integrations

A Safe smart account on Polygon holds funds and positions, and deposits arrive through a deposit service that bridges and swaps several networks into pUSD. Robin vaults are the one external protocol with its own integration page. Group support covers market search, shared cards, the competition leaderboard and referral attribution.

There is no public API, SDK, webhook or MCP server. The Mini App must be launched from Telegram so PolyBot can authenticate you, and some controls, including managed HFT, Robin Yield and single-command trading, exist only in the chat.

Limitations

HFT Strategies trades on PolyBot's signals, not yours. Nothing runs until you start it: Strategies, then Start New Strategy, then a BTC market cycle (5 minutes, 15 minutes or 1 hour), Maker or Taker execution, a capital allocation, and a confirmation. From there the docs' own comparison table answers "Who defines the trade logic?" with "PolyBot's managed strategies and signal source", and the guide adds that "PolyBot decides the individual order size within that budget." Signals are routed to subscribers in time slots, so two users in the same strategy get different trades. The catalog changes without notice, and the docs warn that any beta strategy can lose money. The guide documents no separate price and no profit share for it. No track record is published either: a planned public control room showing performance across managed strategies is marked "Not available yet", so all a subscriber sees is their own subscription's Activity and Performance screens, and this card quotes no figures. This is the one part of the product where the tool chooses the position. Docs guide (last updated 20 July 2026) read on 1 October 2026.

"Self-custodial" describes the Safe, not the signer. The Safe is your on-chain account. PolyBot also creates the signer that authorizes its transactions, and the bot can send you that key on request. That is how copy trading and HFT can sign while you are offline, and it also means PolyBot's systems hold the key that controls your wallet. Two-factor authentication guards withdrawals and export. It does not change who else can sign.

The name is copied more than the product. PolyBot's own safety post lists the only official properties as polybot.trading, docs.polybot.trading, @TradePolyBot and its two backup bots. A site at tradepolybot.app ranks for the handle, is not among them, carries a referral code on every bot link, and advertises "1% fee on wins only", which contradicts PolyBot's own documentation.

The public rankings need reading carefully. The smart-wallet leaderboard shows 30-day ROI figures running into six digits beside a copyability score and a suggested capital amount. A return that size says more about how little the wallet started with than about the trader, and the docs call the scores "analytical signals, not endorsements".

Competitions pay for volume. The live leaderboard ranks wallets by traded volume against tiered prize pools, and every traded dollar pays the 1% fee. The docs say it themselves: trading extra volume to chase a rank increases fees and market risk.

Polymarket only. No Kalshi, no Polymarket US and no cross-venue view.

Alternatives

Kreo is the closest match: a Telegram copy-trading and auto-trading bot on the same venue, with a Privy-secured Safe, a fee that follows the venue's midpoint curve at up to 1.75 cents a share, and a web app. PolyCop takes a flat 0.5% of each trade and holds the key by its own terms. Polycool does copy trading as a phone app, from 1% down to 0.5% with volume. PolyWallet and OrcaLayer watch wallets without routing orders or taking a cut.

A reader who can write the copy logic can skip the bot and its 1% altogether: Polymarket's polymarket-client SDK and the cross-venue PMXT sign orders from a key that never leaves your own machine. For a US reader, Polymarket US and Kalshi are the venues that will open an account.