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1.6% of Polymarket Wallets Never Sleep. They Made 58% of All Trades.
1.6%Wallets active in every hour of the clock
2,080 of 130,346 wallets seen between 22 August and 2 September 2026. Together they filled 58.4% of 9.82M trades and 26.9% of $448M notional
Hourly activity for 130,346 Polymarket wallets over 12 days in August and September 2026: 2,080 wallets were active in every hour of the clock and filled 58.4% of 9.82 million trades. The ten busiest wallets alone filled one trade in five. Half of all wallets traded on a single day. Vultax's prediction-market pipeline materialises Polymarket activity into hourly buckets: for every wallet, every market and every UTC hour, the number of fills, the buy and sell split and the notional traded. This study reads those buckets for the 12 complete days from 22 August to 2 September 2026. In that window the pipeline saw 130,346 distinct wallets, 9,816,634 trades and $448.5 million of notional across every market it tracks. The question is cadence, not identity: when does each wallet trade, and how much of the market do the wallets that trade around the clock account for?
The observation window and population are stated in the study's method section.
Supporting figures
- 20.9% — Trades filled by the ten busiest walletsThe busiest single wallet filled 947,876 trades in 12 days, roughly one a second. All ten were active on all 12 days and in all 24 clock-hours
- 42.6% — Wallets that traded in a single hour55,548 wallets. Half of all wallets (50.1%) were active on one day only; the median wallet made 3 trades worth $40
- $7.50 — Median trade, round-the-clock walletsAgainst $8.67 for everyone else. The cohort's median wallet filled 498 trades at 5.4 per active hour; its 90th percentile filled 4,335
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- Every published table and chart, with units and sources
- Open Polymarket trader analytics
- Every tracked Polymarket wallet with its realised P&L, activity and ranking, updated from Vultax's fill record.
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How to cite
Vultax Research, 1.6% of Polymarket Wallets Never Sleep. They Made 58% of All Trades., 2026-09-09, https://vultax.com/research/polymarket-wallets-that-never-sleep-trading-cadence
Published 2026-09-09. Figures are the published study; live screens move. Plain-text version · Use our data