Building a Polymarket Trading Bot: Architecture, Execution, and Risk Management (opens in new tab)

How I built a real-time automated trading system that monitors BTC, ETH, SOL, and XRP prediction markets and executes trades based on short-lived pricing inefficiencies. Most people think of Polymarket as a prediction market for elections, sports, and current events. As a developer, I saw something else. I saw a real-time marketplace with public APIs, continuously updating order books, frequent settlement events, and thousands of micro-opportunities generated every day. That observation led m...