What is Polymarket Whale Tracker?

Polymarket Whale Tracker (PolySharks.ai) is a free real-time dashboard that monitors the top 50 highest-performing traders (whales) on Polymarket, the largest prediction market platform. It tracks their PnL, volume, active bets, and conviction scores across politics, crypto, sports, and finance markets. Paid Pro users also get cross-market arbitrage monitoring between Polymarket and Kalshi, plus Signal Engine scoring.

Who are the biggest Polymarket whales?

The biggest Polymarket whales are anonymous traders who place large bets—often $100,000 or more—on prediction market outcomes. Our tracker ranks them by total PnL (profit and loss), trading volume, conviction score, and bet frequency. Top whales often focus on U.S. political elections, cryptocurrency price predictions, Federal Reserve decisions, and major sporting events.

How does the Polymarket conviction score work?

The conviction score is a weighted composite metric: 40% PnL (profit and loss), 25% realized PnL, 20% percentage return on bets, and 15% total bet size. This formula rewards consistent profitable traders who deploy significant capital with conviction, not just those who got lucky on a single trade.

Polymarket is the world's largest decentralized prediction market platform. Users buy and sell shares in the outcome of real-world events—like elections, economic data, sports results, and crypto price milestones. Each share pays $1 if the outcome occurs and $0 if it doesn't, creating real-time probability estimates based on market consensus.

How does Polymarket work?

On Polymarket, users trade YES and NO shares for real-world events. If you buy a YES share at $0.42, you believe there is more than a 42% chance the event will happen. If the event occurs, your share is worth $1 (profit of $0.58). If it doesn't, the share is worth $0 (loss of $0.42). Prices move based on supply and demand, reflecting the market's collective probability estimate.

What are the most popular Polymarket prediction markets?

The most popular Polymarket markets include: U.S. Presidential Election odds (2028), Federal Reserve interest rate decisions, Bitcoin and Ethereum price milestones, major sports championships (NBA, UEFA Champions League, UFC), and geopolitical events. Political markets typically have the highest trading volume, sometimes exceeding $15 million.

How do I track whale bets on Polymarket?

Use Polymarket Whale Tracker to monitor large bets in real time. Our Today's Leaders tab shows the top 50 traders ranked by performance alongside their current positions, and the Live Picks feed below streams the largest trades as they happen. Visit the Arbitrage tab to spot price discrepancies between Polymarket and Kalshi. You can filter by category (Politics, Crypto, Sports, Finance) and time period (Day, Week, Month).

What does "amount at risk" mean on Polymarket?

Amount at risk represents the total dollar value of a trader's open positions that could be lost if all bets resolve against them. It is calculated as the sum of (position size × entry price) for all active bets. A high amount at risk combined with positive PnL indicates a confident, high-conviction trader.

Are Polymarket whale identities public?

Most Polymarket whale identities are anonymous — traders use blockchain wallet addresses. PolySharks identifies whales by their on-chain wallet, ranks them by realized PnL, and surfaces only verifiable on-chain activity. We do not publish unverified or speculative real-world identities.

What is a repeat bet on Polymarket?

A repeat bet occurs when a trader places multiple trades on the same market and same side (YES or NO). High repeat bet counts signal strong conviction—the trader is consistently adding to their position rather than making a single bet. Our tracker counts repeat bets per trader and highlights those with the highest conviction levels.

What is the Signal Engine on PolySharks?

The Signal Engine scores every whale from 0–100 using five weighted factors: whaleScore (30% of score, PnL rank), timingScore (20%, recency of last trade), convictionScore (20%, repeat bets), sizeScore (15%, largest bet / volume ratio), and recencyScore (15%, trade frequency). Grades are STRONG (75+), MEDIUM (50–74), WEAK (25–49), and LOW (0–24). Look for STRONG-grade whales making large recent bets as the highest-signal picks to tail.

How does PolySharks find Polymarket vs. Kalshi arbitrage?

The arbitrage engine pulls top-volume Polymarket markets (via Gamma API) and Kalshi events (via /events?with_nested_markets). It matches markets using a bigram + topic-keyword algorithm that requires both a distinctive entity (e.g., Trump, Bitcoin, Iran) and an adjacent word pair to overlap. It then pulls live orderbook mid-prices from each platform. If buying YES on one venue and NO on the other costs less than $1 total, an arbitrage opportunity is reported with the implied edge. Auto-refreshes every 5 minutes.

What is Cross-Platform Confluence on PolySharks?

Cross-Platform Confluence pairs every cross-trader Consensus position on Polymarket with its matching Kalshi market and labels each pair as CONFLUENCE (both venues’ flow leans the same direction), DIVERGENCE (opposite flow), or NEUTRAL (no clear lean on Kalshi). Confluence positions are the highest-signal data points because two distinct trader populations — Polymarket’s on-chain participants and Kalshi’s CFTC-regulated institutional flow — are aligned. Matching uses a Jaccard token-overlap algorithm with topic anchors so noise like sports vs. politics never gets cross-paired.

How does PolySharks identify whale wallet identities?

PolySharks resolves the on-chain ENS (Ethereum Name Service) record for every top-50 whale wallet using the public api.ensideas.com resolver. When a whale has registered an ENS name (e.g., theshark.eth) we display it next to their wallet address as an On-Chain Identity tag. We never publish unverified or speculative real-world identities — only ENS data the wallet owner has chosen to publish on-chain.

What is Ask PolySharks AI?

Ask PolySharks is a GPT-powered assistant grounded in our live market data. It answers natural-language questions like "what are the top 5 whales betting on right now?", "show me confluence trades for the 2028 election", or "explain this Kalshi market". Replies cite live data fetched at request time — not pre-trained text — so answers reflect the current state of the market.

What is SharkScore and how is it different from the Signal Engine?

SharkScore is a per-position quality metric (0–100) shown next to individual whale positions. It blends the trader’s historical PnL, position size relative to their book, repeat-position pattern, and trade timing. The Signal Engine is a per-trader metric covering the trader’s overall track record. Use SharkScore to evaluate a single position, Signal grade to evaluate a trader.

What is the PolySharks Receipts API?

The Receipts API (GET /api/receipts) is an auditable list of every Polymarket consensus call PolySharks has surfaced, with the outcome the market eventually resolved to. Each row shows: call time, whales agreeing, market, side bet, resolution, and PnL if you had tailed it. We publish this so the platform’s historical accuracy is verifiable, not a marketing claim.

PolySharks vs Polymarket Analytics (official)

Polymarket’s official leaderboard is the canonical source for individual trader PnL on Polymarket — if you only care about Polymarket and only need a static leaderboard, it’s free and authoritative. PolySharks adds everything around it: Kalshi coverage, cross-venue consensus, real-time alerts, category landing pages, an embed widget, and a public API. Many of our users use both: the official leaderboard for ground-truth PnL, PolySharks for the analytics layer.

Methodology: feature audit of public product pages + on-chain data verification. Informational only — not financial advice.

Side-by-side feature matrix

11 features compared. Verdicts: Yes = fully supported · Partial = limited or vendor-claimed but unverified · No = not supported · — = pricing or feature not publicly documented.

Feature	PolySharks	Polymarket Analytics (official)
Polymarket coverage	Yes	Yes
Kalshi coverage	Yes	No
Top-50 trader leaderboard ranked by realized PnL	Yes	Yes
Cross-platform Polymarket↔Kalshi consensus detection	Yes	No
Category landing pages (politics / sports / crypto / finance)	Yes	Partial
Real-time alerts (< 60s from on-chain trade)	Yes	No
Individual wallet PnL ranking	Yes	Yes
Free embed widget for newsletters / blogs	Yes	No
Public REST API	Yes	No
Free tier with no signup required	Yes	Yes
Auditable track record / methodology page	Yes	Partial

Verdict

Try PolySharks (free)Visit Polymarket Analytics (official)

FAQ

Is PolySharks better than Polymarket Analytics (official)?+

Depends on your use case. Polymarket’s official leaderboard is the canonical source for individual trader PnL on Polymarket — if you only care about Polymarket and only need a static leaderboard, it’s free and authoritative. PolySharks adds everything around it: Kalshi coverage, cross-venue consensus, real-time alerts, category landing pages, an embed widget, and a public API. Many of our users use both: the official leaderboard for ground-truth PnL, PolySharks for the analytics layer.

Does Polymarket Analytics (official) cover Kalshi?+

No — Polymarket Analytics (official) is Polymarket-only as of our last review. PolySharks covers both Polymarket and Kalshi with cross-venue consensus pairing.

Can I get the same data Polymarket Analytics (official) provides for free?+

PolySharks ships a free tier (no signup) showing the top 50 traders, the largest recent positions, and cross-venue consensus signals. The official Polymarket leaderboard is also free for individual trader PnL on Polymarket. Some third-party tools gate equivalent features behind subscriptions.

What metrics does PolySharks track that Polymarket Analytics (official) doesn't?+

PolySharks ships category landing pages at /bets/{politics,sports,crypto,finance} and /whales/{...} that are SEO-indexed per category, a free embed widget for newsletters, a documented public REST API ($39 Starter / $69 Pro tiers), and an auditable methodology page. The full feature matrix is in the comparison table on this page.

Where does PolySharks get its data?+

Public on-chain trade data from the Polygon blockchain (for Polymarket) and Kalshi's public API. We do not custody funds, do not execute trades, and have no privileged access. Methodology including known biases is published at /methodology.

Informational only — not financial advice. Prediction-market trading involves risk of total loss. PolySharks is an independent research dashboard with no affiliation to Polymarket Analytics (official), Polymarket Holdings Inc., or Kalshi. Competitor feature claims sourced from public documentation at time of publication.