what's polytrader by virtuals?
Polytrader by Virtuals is a decentralized trading protocol built on the Virtuals Protocol ecosystem, designed to facilitate autonomous and agent-based trading strategies. It leverages AI-driven agents to analyze market sentiment, arbitrage opportunities, and prediction markets like Polymarket, enabling users to execute trades without manual intervention. The platform integrates a user-friendly interface for defining trading parameters, funding wallets with tokens like USDC.e and POLY, and monitoring performance through real-time insights into PnL, events, and cross-market liquidity. At its core, Polytrader employs an agent-to-agent framework using the GAME SDK from Virtuals, allowing interactions directly on platforms like X (formerly Twitter). This enables seamless tagging for trades, sentiment-based arbitrage between internet discussions and betting odds, and handling of illiquidity across markets. The protocol emphasizes community-driven growth, with features like custodial wallets and automated bots that adapt to user-defined risk levels and market conditions. The project's technical foundation supports robust liquidity management and holder distribution, fostering a distributed token base. It prioritizes security through on-chain executions and transparency in agent behaviors, making it suitable for traders seeking predictive analytics and efficient bet placements in decentralized environments.
Polytrader partnered with Privy on Jan 12, 2026, and generated $500k in fees in its first week.
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partnered with Privy on January 12th, 2026
Generated approximately $500,000 in fees during the first week of operation from the 15 million crypto markets, charging roughly 1% on a curve.
Token is used as credit on the platform with 70% of tokens being burned.
Featured in a thread about AI trading bots on Polymarket as a sentiment scanning tool alongside other trading-related products.
A whale sells their entire $POLY position this morning at a 99% loss ($780,000), part of a $28.54 million loss across multiple AI Agent tokens purchased during the early year trend. The selloff causes significant price drops and very poor liquidity conditions for affected AI Agent tokens.
Volume and users break all-time highs.
Trader alleges the project uses a vampire attack strategy against competitor Kalshi and warns investors not to hold $POLY long term as tokens subsidize customer acquisition costs.
CMO Matthew Modabber states the upcoming POLY token targets true utility and long-term value.
An airdrop is anticipated with timing to be determined, listed alongside other major upcoming wealth-creation events on different chains.
X platform announces official partnership with Polymarket for predictions market integration.
Market cap $23.95m (+88.8% last 7D). Top 100 holders: 49.66%. 10 whales. Smart engagement: 38 (+153.33% last 7D). 1-month retention: 82.8%. 76.92% prediction success rate.
Trading at $30M market cap with $2M daily volume. Wintermute accumulating with market buys. Team improved Web app terminal, launched autonomous agent trading with strong performance, and released telegram app for monitoring.
Hit ATH at 30M market cap. Wintermute reported buying 50K clips.
Entered at $5M market cap bottom, reached $29.6M in just over 3 weeks. First target set at $50M+.
Recent 42.55% increase in social engagement over past 3 days. 24-hour trading volume of $1.84M with $266.32K net inflow. $1.30M liquidity. 73,652 holders. Buy/sell ratio at 1.34.
Reached 17M market cap, reported 24x increase from initial posting.
Surpassed 10M market cap, achieving 16X from initial price. Now tradeable on Solana with liquidity added via Wormhole. One of first Virtuals agents on Solana.