Everything you need to know about copy trading on Polymarket
Polymarket works through hybrid CLOB
The deal matches on off-chain servers, only the settlement gets into the blockchain.
When you see "the same block", the leader bargained seconds ago.
Real detection delay figures:
> node mempool ~320 ms
> Third-party RPC mempool ~1 120 ms (3.5× worse)
> Wait for the confirmed block ~2,450 ms (7.5× worse)
> 100 ms-2 sec takes only the path from the off-chain match to the appearance of the transaction in mempool.
It's without your bot at all.
But the main conclusion of the article is not about milliseconds.
Uptime is more important than microoptimizations. In September 2025, Polygon went into a 12-hour incident, finality - 780 seconds.
Ideal latence = 0 if the bot is lying.
What to do:
- join spottr
- find traders
- amylase their edges
- monitoring with alerts
Everything else is a game of marketing figures.