The truth about @ Polymarket's "reward farming week earns thousands of dollars" Every few days, someone posts screenshots of LP rewards, earning hundreds or thousands of U per week, with the caption "passive income" and "lying down to earn". I dug up on chain data, platform rules, and a bunch of farmers' own real accounts. Tell me a few things they wouldn't write in the screenshot The screenshot shows gross reward, not net profit. These two are so close that they are outrageous. Reward is the compensation for carrying adverse selection when the order you placed is' executed '. More than half of the rewards received by players were lost when they were taken over by Smart Money. Showing gross is equivalent to only showing revenue without mentioning costs. Farmers themselves admit it. A top 7% person publicly shared their exact words: they earned $82 reward, but 'the actual profit is close to zero, even a small loss'. The other account incurred a trading loss of $886, but after adding the reward, it returned to - $333. Reward is for filling holes, not for picking up in vain. This is a whale game, not a retail game. Accumulate rewards up to $650, and you are already among the top 1000 wallets on the entire platform A very small number of market making wallets (less than 1%) took away half of the market making profits In millions of wallets, only tens of thousands of LPs have truly passed through The group of people you see earning thousands of dollars per week is the pinnacle of the pyramid: large funds+automated bots+peak season. Almost all of the "thousands" of rewards come from high prize pools such as the World Cup/Sports. But high rewards=active transactions=the place where players are most severely affected by toxic orders. The high reward is not because it is easy to earn, but because the risk is high and the platform has to spend money to subsidize you for helping to carry the goods. Low risk quiet plate, rewards are also quiet. What kind of chart is "$50 principal 18980% APR"? $50 earned only $25. The percentage is scary, the absolute value is the cost of a meal. Small funds simply cannot establish a stable and profitable scale. 6/Conclusion: ✅ Thousands of gross income per week - it really exists, but=large funds+multiple bots+peak season+top 1% ❌ Thousands of net worth per week, replicable with small funds - basically gross numbers+survivor bias Reward farming can make a small profit, but it is a 'subsidy', not a printing press. Finally, I strongly suspect that many of the LPs posted on Twitter are mini accounts created by PM themselves.