FAQ
Practical answers about PolyLab data quality, refresh timing, smart-money interpretation, and what the public scanner is meant to do.
Is PolyLab financial advice?
No. PolyLab is a research and scanning tool.
Does PolyLab show live Polymarket data?
No. It shows periodic snapshots and derived metrics.
How often is the data updated?
Market snapshots and regular holder positions refresh hourly. Wallet P/L runs in bounded batches every 15 minutes with a 24-hour reuse window. Missing holders are also checked after successful scrapes and, for eligible users, when opening an unsampled market. Actual source timestamps show the age of each observation.
Why can PolyLab disagree with Polymarket?
Because the scanner is snapshot-based, depends on several upstream endpoints, and enriches rows locally. Fast market movement, metadata fallbacks, and holder sampling all contribute to differences.
Does Smart Money mean insiders or whales?
No. In the current implementation it means sampled holder rows joined with wallet PnL sign. That is a much narrower and more mechanical definition.
Does PolyLab ingest every holder in a market?
No. The current holders client effectively caps the sample to top 20 holders per outcome.
Is smart_money_win_rate a public filter?
No. It is still computed in background storage, but it is not a live public filter in the current scanner UI and API contract.
What is free, and what does Pro add?
Free covers the full screener with every market number (price, APR, spread, volume, liquidity, expiry) and every market filter, all strategies (their market filters), free picks with smart money, holder wallet lists and available market history unlocked without sign-up (every market recommended on the homepage, 3 fresh markets per strategy rotating every hour, and editorial collections linked from articles), one showcase strategy fully unlocked including smart money (usually Coinflip Club; if it has fewer than 3 qualifying markets the showcase switches to Newsmaker or Longshot until the next data refresh) and, with a free account, 3 saved markets with price-move and resolution alerts. Pro (USD 29/month, early-access price, normally USD 49, after a 7-day card-required trial; cancel anytime) adds the smart-money verdict and per-side P/L on every market, holder lists with wallet P/L on every market, smart-money filters and strategy gates, unlimited saved markets plus smart-money and holder-change alerts, market history and Ask PolyLab AI. Existing early-access accounts keep Pro free. See Access Model.
Where should I validate a trade?
On live Polymarket. Use PolyLab to shortlist and inspect. Use Polymarket to confirm the live state before acting.