I’ve been one of the biggest market makers on Polymarket for a long time. At peak I was doing $10M+ daily volume and paying thousands in fees every single day.
The current state is the worst the platform has ever felt.
Ghost fills still everywhere. Markets constantly breaking. Payouts randomly missing. Exploits going on for months while the team says “it’s fixed”. You spend more time defending against bugs than actually trading.
Meanwhile, communication is a joke.
They say “we’re listening” → ignore emails, ignore DMs.
They say “we’ll work with top users” → instead it’s random private Telegram groups with whoever shouts the loudest.
They say “issue fixed” → it clearly isn’t.
At some point you stop believing anything they say.
The fee situation is another one. If you’re generating serious volume and paying serious fees (thousands a day), most exchanges shower you with attention and perks. I'm not asking for that but would be nice to at least be acknowledged that you exist and have basic communication, especially after they've announced publicly multiple times that they will start doing this.
Instead we got a week-long hype campaign for a “big update” that turned out to be… a hidden fee increase.
How dumb do you think your users are?
And then stuff like April 5th, missed referral/rebate payments, no announcement, no explanation, nothing. Just silence. That’s not a bug, that’s trust damage.
The bigger issue is it feels like nobody on the team has actual trading experience. The design decisions show it. Every update introduces new edge cases, new exploits, new ways to break the order book.
People have made many millions exploiting this stuff. Many of these accounts are obvious, trackable, preventable. The community has been pointing it out for months.
Ignored.
Only now that the markets are borderline unusable does it seem like there’s urgency. Right now the platform is honestly close to untradeable:
– ghost fills
– manipulation
– unreliable payouts
– constant bugs
– zero transparency
And surprise, volume is dropping.
Meanwhile Kalshi is catching up fast (have basically overtaken in volume in almost every category except for politics) and Hyperliquid is entering with a team that actually understands trading systems.
I want Polymarket to succeed.
And yes, maybe the upcoming ghost fill fix helps. But if this pattern continues, terrible communication, fake timelines, ignoring core users, then this won’t be a place serious traders stick around.
You can’t build a market while eroding the trust of the people who provide the liquidity, especially not as a many multi billion dollar company! I have spoken to many large polymarket whales (of which a considerable amount have already given up on the platform) and they all share this sentiment.
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@Autonomous_Chad Yeah they removed the Nonce function completely but that’s not the only way to cancel an order, as long as an order is sent for on chain settlement it can be cancelled. End of story. The move to another chain is interesting but who knows how long that will take
@devjoshstevens@Polymarket lol if you think V2 is saving ghost fills you gotta be having a laugh, CT is saying that the V2 backend was vibe coded can you confirm?
@howdymerry Hi, I’m building a platform called Switchboard, built around this very concept + some other interesting governance things. If you interested in helping me with testing pls let me know I’ll send you a DM. Thanks
@MindTheGapMTG Hi how’s it going, I’m creating a platform called Switchboard and the core thesis precisely around what you mentioned about Governance. Let me know if you’d like to hear or give it a test for me I’ll send you a dm. Thanks
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