Who Is This For?
The Trader Guide is designed for:- Institutional traders accessing markets directly
- Proprietary trading firms executing strategies programmatically
- Market makers providing liquidity
- Quantitative traders building automated trading systems
What You Can Do
With trading access, you can:Key Concepts
Environments
Polymarket Exchange provides multiple environments for testing and production:- Development - Internal testing environment
- Pre-production - UAT environment with test funds
- Production - Live trading environment
Environments
View API endpoints and configuration
Rate Limits
API requests are subject to rate limits to ensure fair usage:- REST API: Request-based limits per endpoint
- gRPC: Connection and message limits
Rate Limits
Understand rate limiting policies
Connection Options
Choose the right protocol for your use case:- REST API - Simple request/response for orders and queries
- gRPC - High-performance streaming for market data and order updates
- FIX - Industry-standard protocol for institutional trading
Connection Options
Compare connection protocols
Schema
Strongly-typed instrument fields for safely identifying sports and crypto price markets without parsing symbols or slugs.Sports Schema
Identify sports markets via instrument metadata
Crypto Schema
Identify crypto price markets via instrument metadata