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Notes from inside
the order book.

Polymarket's order book is off-chain, so public analysis stops at settled trades. We record the book itself. These are short, reproducible studies computed from that archive — every number loads from the same parquet files we sell, so you can rerun all of it.

0052026-09-07ecosystemtools
136 Polymarket tools, mapped again

Two weeks after note 003 said no directory maps the ecosystem, PolyMart lists 136 tools in twelve hand-reviewed categories. Read against the 35-tool list the shape is unchanged — wallets watched, prices barely modeled — except that order-book history is now a category with vendors in it.

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150 million rows of the 2026 World Cup, free

Every Polymarket market attached to the tournament, published open: minute bars, tick trades, on-chain fills with the settling wallet, and the full 25-level book for a final decided on penalties. Resolved outcomes for 99.9% of 39,497 markets, so calibration is a group-by.

0032026-08-24ecosystemtools
The Polymarket tooling stack, mapped

A community-curated GitHub list is the best map of Polymarket's third-party ecosystem: 35 tools, nine categories, heaviest where wallets are watched and nearly empty where prices are modeled. The shape of it points straight at the missing input.

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Ninety minutes of nothing: the World Cup final through the order book

Spain–Argentina finished 0–0 in regulation and the draw still repriced 68 points — no goals, no jumps, just the clock. Meanwhile 96% of the resting liquidity walked out, and the spread never moved a hair.

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Anatomy of a last-minute goal: Spain–Belgium through the order book

Merino's 89th-minute winner repriced the market 62 points in 0.65 seconds. The spread hit 31¢, the book at the touch thinned to ~$1.3k, and the first fill beat the book's own repricing by 35ms.

nextPolitical markets into the November midterms. We're recording the book across the whole cycle — election-night liquidity is the one everybody guesses about and nobody measures.