Last updated: July 2026.
Watching a smart wallet after the fact is easy. Catching its trade while the market has not moved yet is the hard part, and it is the whole point of wallet alerts. Here is how real-time tracking works on OrcaLayer.
How do I get real-time wallet alerts on Polymarket?
Open the Whale Alerts feed. It shows every Polymarket trade of 500 dollars or more as it happens, read from OrcaLayer's own index of the Polygon chain. Filter by category, direction, or size, from 1,000 to 100,000 dollars and up. To get notified about specific wallets instead of watching the firehose, follow them on OrcaLayer: the personal Telegram bot then pings you about their new trades. Following with Telegram alerts is part of the Pro tier.
Two surfaces: motion and weight
The alerts page tracks smart money two different ways, and the difference matters.
Live Fills. Single trades of 500 dollars or more, streamed as they happen. This is motion: what is being bought and sold right now, by whom, at what price. Filters cover category (crypto, sports, politics, geopolitics, economics, tech), buy or sell side, trade size, and time window.
Big Positions. Accumulated holdings of 500,000 dollars or more, as they currently stand. A whale that built a position from 50 small fills never shows up as one big trade, but it shows up here. This is weight: where the money is actually sitting.
A single 800 dollar fill can be noise. A 700,000 dollar accumulated position is a statement. Use Live Fills to catch moves and Big Positions to see conviction.
Picking wallets worth following
An alert is only as good as the wallet behind it. Every ranking on OrcaLayer is farmer-filtered by default: wallets with an average buy price above 95 cents, bot-pattern wallets, and Polymarket's own router contracts are removed before you ever see a list. What remains are wallets that took real, uncertain positions. Pick from the leaderboard, open a wallet profile, check its resolved-market record, and follow it. The how and why of the filter is in the farmer detection guide.
For developers: the alerts API
If you want the same data programmatically, the REST API on the Premium tier serves wallet, trade, and market endpoints at 600 requests per minute. That is enough to poll a watchlist of wallets every few seconds and drive your own alerting, dashboards, or trading logic. The API reads the same 1.2 billion-trade index the site runs on.
Frequently asked questions
How do I get real-time wallet alerts on Polymarket? Open the OrcaLayer Whale Alerts feed, which shows every trade of 500 dollars or more as it happens. To get notified about specific wallets, follow them on OrcaLayer and receive personal Telegram alerts, available on the Pro tier.
Can I get alerts when a profitable wallet makes a trade? Yes. Follow any wallet from its OrcaLayer profile and the personal Telegram bot notifies you about its new trades. Rankings are farmer-filtered, so the wallets you pick from took real positions.
What is the difference between Live Fills and Big Positions? Live Fills shows single trades of 500 dollars or more as they happen, which is motion. Big Positions shows accumulated holdings of 500,000 dollars or more, even if built from dozens of small fills, which is weight. They answer different questions and work best together.
Is there a wallet alerts API? Yes. The OrcaLayer REST API on the Premium tier exposes the same wallet and trade data programmatically at 600 requests per minute, so you can build your own alerting on top of it.
Are Polymarket wallet alerts free? The Whale Alerts feed on the site is free to browse. Personal Telegram alerts on followed wallets are on the Pro tier, and API access is on Premium.
How fast do the alerts arrive? The feed reads trades from OrcaLayer's own Polygon index and publishes them near real time, typically well under a minute from the on-chain fill.