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Bot builders find Polymarket arbitrage harder than it looks
Original: We spent a few weeks trying to build a profitable Polymarket bot. Arbitrage between linked markets,... # api # python #
A team of developers spent several weeks attempting to build a profitable automated trading bot for Polymarket, the crypto prediction market platform, focusing on arbitrage between linked markets. In the end the bot never made a dollar: the team documented six separate problems that broke the system before it turned any profit, offering a candid account of the technical hurdles in automated prediction-market trading.
Why now: Interest in automated trading and arbitrage on prediction markets is high, and a candid failure story is a useful cautionary tale for other developers.
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- We spent a few weeks trying to build a profitable Polymarket bot. Arbitrage between linked markets,... # api # python # crypto # security # software # coding # development # engineering # inclusive # community 6 things that broke our Polymarket trading bot before it made a dollar · hackaday@www.urbanmind.net · 1
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