How to build a Polymarket trading bot (after new rules edition)

* Polymarket silently satisfies nuked the 500ms delay * Here's how to build a bot that actually works under the new rules 2 days ago Polymarket removed the 500ms taker price delay on crypto markets. No announcement. No warning. Half the bots on the platform broke overnight. But it also opened up the biggest opportunity for new bots since Polymarket launched. And today I'll explain how to build a bot that works under the new rules because everything you've seen before February 18 is now outdated. If you try right now to ask an AI model to build a Polymarket bot, you'll get something based on the OLD rules. REST polling, no fee handling, no awareness that the 500ms buffer is gone. That bot will lose money from the first trade. Let me explain what actually changed and how to build around it. What changed Three things happened in the last 2 months: The 500ms taker delay was removed (Feb 18, 2026) Every taker order used to wait 500ms before executing. Market makers relied on this buffer to