Press note
Best Polymarket Traders: 36 Wallets Took 44% of Gains, and Active Winners Kept Winning
43.9%Realised gains taken by the top 1% of winners
36 wallets out of 9,902, 18 June to 14 July 2026; the top 10% of winners (351 wallets) took 79.5%
Who makes money on Polymarket, whether winners keep winning, and how five leaderboards count. The top 1% of winning wallets took 43.9% of realised gains; 124 of 137 active June winners were profitable again in July, against a 41–51% repeat rate across all wallets month to month. A small number of Polymarket wallets take most of the money, and the ones that trade often keep taking it. In Vultax's record of 9,902 wallets from 18 June to 14 July 2026, the top 1% of winning wallets, 36 addresses, took 43.9% of all realised gains, while 54.3% of wallets closed nothing at all. Among the 184 wallets with ten or more trades in both June and July 2026, 124 of the 137 June winners were profitable again in July (90.5%).
Observed 2026-07, population: 7,178 wallets.
Supporting figures
- 124 of 137 — Active June winners profitable again in July90.5% of the June winners among 184 wallets with ten or more trades in both months; 67.4% of the 184 were profitable in both. Across all wallets active in consecutive months from March 2025 to March 2026 (431 million fills, 13 month pairs), winners repeated 41–51% of the time
- 12.2% — One-trade wallets in profitJuly 2026, n=2,199; against 63.7% for wallets with 6 to 20 trades
- 0 of 5 — Leaderboards that state fee treatmentPolymarket's board, Polycopy, Hashdive, Laika Labs, Polymarket Analytics: all show a P&L, none says gross or net
Images
Vultax Research
The study’s illustration, free to run with that credit and a link. It is artwork, not a figure.
Share card, 1200×630 — the headline figure and the title, rendered. Credit Vultax Research.
Reproducing one of the study’s figures instead? Caption it “Chart: Vultax Research”. Higher resolutions and other crops on request.
Links
- The study
- Full text, sources and method
- Markdown edition
- Plain text for quoting and for assistants
- Chart figures (CSV)
- The numbers behind the headline chart
- All datasets (JSON)
- Every published table and chart, with units and sources
- Open Polymarket trader analytics
- Observed performance for Polymarket wallets, live movers and a search across all traders, each view with its sample and time context.
Press contact
Vultax Research — [email protected]
Questions on method, a figure checked before you print it, a chart at another size, or a cut of the data this study does not publish. Say what you are writing and when it runs.
How to cite
Vultax Research, Best Polymarket Traders: 36 Wallets Took 44% of Gains, and Active Winners Kept Winning, 2026-09-16, https://vultax.com/research/best-polymarket-traders-leaderboards
Published 2026-09-11, last revised 2026-09-16. Figures are the published study; live screens move. Plain-text version · Use our data