Can AI agents help users win Polymarket airdrop eligibility?

Author: Golem, Odaily

Original Title: Can You Get a Polymarket Airdrop by Using AI Agents to Execute End-of-Day Strategies?

Polymarket has confirmed that it will launch a token and an airdrop. On October 24, Polymarket’s Chief Marketing Officer Matthew Modabber said in a podcast interview, “There will be a token, and there will be an airdrop. We could have launched the token at any time, but we wanted to do it more thoroughly. We hope it will be a truly practical, lasting, and permanent token.”

According to other sources, Polymarket will reopen to US users by the end of November and will issue a token in 2026.

This means that users have at most 3-4 months left to interact with Polymarket. Although there are rumors that Polymarket has already conducted several rounds of snapshots, it is not too late to start interacting now. According to Dune data, over 90% of users have betting funds below $100, and whales betting $5,000-$10,000 account for only 0.4%. Therefore, although Polymarket appears to have a large user base and strategies and tutorials for farming Polymarket are “everywhere,” the number of people actually putting in the effort may not be high. With a bet of over $500, you can easily rank in the top 10%.

In order not to lose all your principal during Polymarket interactions (according to statistics, over 85% of Polymarket accounts are in negative balance), there are currently three main “near-lossless volume boosting” strategies popular on Polymarket. The first is for users to find a prediction event with poor liquidity and use two wallets to trade back and forth. The second is end-of-day trading, that is, only trading on events where the probability of the outcome is already above 95%. The third is to capture arbitrage opportunities in multi-option markets where the sum of probabilities is less than 100%.

However, all three strategies require a lot of time and effort to execute. Finding prediction events that meet the criteria takes time, and even after finding suitable events, you still need to spend energy on mechanical trading. This is why, even with confirmed token issuance and sufficient strategies, Polymarket interactions still don’t seem highly competitive—ordinary players find it hard to persist in continuous interaction, and these near risk-free opportunities are gradually being monopolized by professional bots.

Using AI Agents to Execute Polymarket End-of-Day Strategies

Among these three Polymarket interaction strategies, the end-of-day strategy is more suitable for most users, and there are already AI agents on the market that help users search for events on Polymarket with a probability above 95% and trade automatically. Below, we’ll use the Polymarket end-of-day strategy agent launched by the AI agent infrastructure UnifAI as an example for detailed explanation.

UnifAI is a platform that allows autonomous AI agents to execute on-chain and off-chain tasks in the Web3 ecosystem. The platform has launched various autonomous AI strategy agents, and users can run the desired strategy for free with one click. The Polymarket end-of-day strategy agent is one of its newly launched strategies. According to platform data, 206 wallets are currently running this strategy.

How to Run the Polymarket End-of-Day Strategy Agent

Running this strategy is very simple. First, log in to the UnifAI official website using your Telegram account, click “Strategies,” and then click to enter the “Polymarket Auto Farming” strategy agent.

Then, click “Create New Wallet” under “Select Wallet.” Note that since Polymarket runs on the Polygon network, you need to create an EVM wallet. Also, the wallet created through UnifAI is a non-custodial wallet, and users can export the private key by clicking “Manage Wallet” in the upper right corner of the website.

After the wallet is successfully created, you need to deposit at least 100 USDC and a small amount of POL as gas fees. Note that although UnifAI supports deposits via Ethereum, Base, BSC, and Polygon, it is more convenient to use the Polygon network for running the Polymarket end-of-day strategy agent. Users can transfer USDC and POL directly to the address via the Polygon network from an exchange.

Once the transfer is complete, click “Copy Strategy” and the agent will run automatically, searching for events with a probability greater than 95% in the Polymarket market and automatically buying in.

On the “Strategies” page, click “My Strategies” to see the agents currently running. At the same time, users can choose to stop the strategy or click “Run Log” to view the strategy execution log.

Risk Warning

Although the end-of-day strategy is profitable in most cases, black swan events can occur, such as an event with a 95% probability suddenly reversing or being manipulated by a whale. In such cases, user funds may “go to zero in one shot.” To address this, UnifAI uses a position-splitting mechanism, meaning it never bets the entire position on a single event, thus preventing some risks for users.

It should also be noted that this Polymarket end-of-day strategy agent from UnifAI has only been launched for two days and is not particularly stable. Many users have reported betting errors in the community. The official response is that “too many new users have joined, Polymarket has reached its rate limit, and we are working hard to resolve it.” Therefore, as a player, you can currently participate with a small amount of funds or look for similar but more stable products on the market. If you have technical skills, you can try writing your own program.

Can You Get an Airdrop by Using AI Agents for Polymarket Interactions?

The main purpose of using AI agents to execute Polymarket end-of-day strategies is to achieve “lossless interaction” on Polymarket to obtain an airdrop while saving as much time and effort as possible. However, if Polymarket interactions conducted via AI agents do not qualify for the airdrop, it would be counterproductive.

The Polymarket platform uses a built-in custodial wallet model. Users log in via wallet, email, etc., and the platform automatically generates a wallet associated with the account. Users must deposit into this built-in wallet to trade, and the private key cannot be exported. Therefore, even if Polymarket takes a snapshot for the airdrop, it is most likely based on data from the built-in wallet.

However, when AI agents execute Polymarket end-of-day strategies, they do not use the user’s wallet to create a Polymarket account. Users can verify this by exporting the UnifAI wallet private key and logging into Polymarket themselves. This has led the community to speculate that the UnifAI agent uses a “large fund model” and does not operate user wallet funds individually.

However, according to UnifAI community managers, the Polymarket end-of-day strategy agent directly uses the user’s wallet to place bets. The reason users cannot see the interaction when logging into the Polymarket website themselves is that “any third-party Polymarket account, from Telegram Bot to third-party market makers, interacts directly with the wallet, rather than using the Polymarket built-in wallet generated for that address.”

Whether this mode of interaction will ultimately be included in the scope of the Polymarket airdrop is still undetermined. But if Polymarket ultimately only recognizes addresses with built-in wallets and interaction data as “real users,” then users employing this strategy will suffer significant losses. Therefore, airdrop hunters can currently allocate a small amount of funds to AI agents for Polymarket interactions, while keeping their main funds for manual farming.