Base URL
/v3 endpoint — pass your key as a query parameter or header:
What you can build
- Perps trading dashboards — live tickers, orderbooks, best bid/offer, recent trades, and candles for every listed instrument, over REST or a single WebSocket connection
- Portfolio trackers — look up any wallet’s perps positions and equity. Pass either the Polymarket profile address or the underlying account address; resolution is automatic (how it works)
- Funding and analytics tools — hourly funding-rate history, 24h statistics, OHLCV candles, plus polynode-exclusive open-interest and volume time series
- Cross-product platforms — perps data lives under the same
/v3surface as prediction-market trades, positions, and P&L, so one integration covers both sides of Polymarket
Instruments
10 instruments are live as of July 2026 across four categories —crypto, index, commodity, and equity — and Polymarket has dozens more defined for future launch. The API discovers new instruments automatically as they list; nothing is hardcoded. Everywhere an endpoint takes an instrument you can pass the numeric id (6), the full symbol (BTC-USD), or the bare asset (btc).
Data conventions
- Prices and quantities are strings. The exchange uses high-precision decimals; we pass them through untouched so you never lose precision to floating point.
- Timestamps are Unix milliseconds in responses. Time-range filters (
after,before) accept seconds or milliseconds — values are detected automatically. - Lists come wrapped as
{"data": [...]}, with amoreflag on paginated endpoints. instrument_idandsymbolappear together in every response, so you never need a separate lookup call.
Live vs. historical
Live market data (tickers, books, bbo, trades, statistics) reflects the current state of the market at request time. Historical series — trade history, funding, klines, open interest, volume — accrue from July 9, 2026 onward and keep growing.Endpoint map
| Area | Endpoints |
|---|---|
| Market data | instruments, tickers, bbo, book, trades, statistics, klines, funding |
| polynode-exclusive series | open interest, volume |
| Exchange meta | fees, limit tiers, exchange info, assets, index prices |
| Wallets | wallet overview, portfolio, registered |
| Streaming | WebSocket |

