FAQ
Practical answers about PolyLab data quality, refresh timing, smart-money interpretation, and what the public scanner is meant to do.
This page is intentionally explicit and implementation-first. If the product or upstream APIs change, the current behavior described here can change with them.
Is PolyLab financial advice?
No. PolyLab is a research and scanning tool.
Does PolyLab show live Polymarket data?
No. It shows periodic snapshots and derived metrics.
How often is the data updated?
Market snapshots refresh every hour, while Smart Money analysis refreshes every 6 hours.
Why can PolyLab disagree with Polymarket?
Because the scanner is snapshot-based, depends on several upstream endpoints, and enriches rows locally. Fast market movement, metadata fallbacks, and holder sampling all contribute to differences.
Does Smart Money mean insiders or whales?
No. In the current implementation it means sampled holder rows joined with wallet PnL sign. That is a much narrower and more mechanical definition.
Does PolyLab ingest every holder in a market?
No. The current holders client effectively caps the sample to top 20 holders per outcome.
Is smart_money_win_rate a public filter?
No. It is still computed in background storage, but it is not a live public filter in the current scanner UI and API contract.
Where should I validate a trade?
On live Polymarket. Use PolyLab to shortlist and inspect. Use Polymarket to confirm the live state before acting.