Polymarket Maker Rebate Leaderboard

Polymarket pays a per-trade rebate to makers — the resting side of any filled trade. When your limit order is matched by a taker who sweeps the book, you receive a small cash rebate as compensation for providing the liquidity. The rebate is paid in USDC (or pUSD post-migration), settled by the maker-rebate distributor wallet on Polygon. Programme has been live since January 2026.

Polymarket publishes per-market rebate parameters — typically a percentage or basis-point share of the trade's notional value, paid to the maker side of every fill. Rates and eligibility vary by market and can change; the canonical reference is Polymarket's maker-rebates programme docs, which list the current per-category rate table and qualifying conditions. We don't recompute the formula; we mirror what actually got paid out on-chain.

Our scanner exposes three fee columns built specifically for maker-rebate analysis: Taker fee (Polymarket's per-category taker rate), Maker rebate (the kickback you receive on each filled order), and Effective fee (the round-trip cost at the current midprice). Markets where Maker rebate exceeds Taker fee show a negative effective fee — Polymarket effectively pays you to trade them. These are the highest-EV markets for maker-rebate farming. See our maker rebate guide for the full playbook; Polymarket's programme docs publish the up-to-date per-category rate table.

On-chain Transfer events from Polymarket's maker-rebate distributor wallet on Polygon. Same pipeline as the LP leaderboard — Polygon RPC watches for inbound Transfer events into recipient wallets and aggregates per address. No scraping, no third-party API, no Polymarket auth required — just blockchain truth. For lifetime, monthly, and daily distribution totals across this same on-chain dataset — plus the concentration breakdown (top wallets vs long tail) — see our maker rebates distribution stats.

Each view aggregates maker rebates within its window from the same on-chain Transfer events. All-time shows lifetime cumulative rebates since the programme launched in January 2026. 30-day and 7-day show only payouts received in the trailing month/week. The same wallet can rank #1 on the all-time board but disappear from the 7-day board if they haven't been market-making recently. Use the period picker above the table to switch views; search and the pinned "You" row work on each period independently.

Both subsidise providing liquidity on Polymarket, but the compensation model differs. LP rewards pay for KEEPING limit orders posted — a time-weighted score per epoch, paid regardless of whether the orders ever fill. Maker rebates pay per TRADE — only when a taker actually fills your order. Many top wallets earn both on the same posted orders: LP score accrues while orders rest, and the maker rebate kicks in the moment they get filled. See the LP leaderboard for the time-weighted ranking.

Yes — it is the direct compensation model for on-book market making on a CLOB. Where a maker rebate differs from spot-DEX market making (Uniswap-style AMMs): there is no impermanent-loss curve here, no LP token. You post limit orders, get filled, receive a rebate. The cost-of-business is the same as everywhere: adverse selection. Informed flow takes your best quote before the market moves, leaving you with mispriced inventory. The rebate offsets some of that cost; whether it's sufficient depends on the volatility and informed flow on the markets you choose.

Two main risks. Adverse selection — informed traders take your most aggressive bid or ask right before the market moves against you, leaving inventory you didn't actually want at a price that's now wrong. Resolution risk — every Polymarket market settles 0¢ or 100¢; any inventory still on your books at resolution becomes a directional gain or loss. Maker rebates compensate for the spread you provide but do not eliminate either risk. Mitigations: stick to high-volume markets where informed flow is less concentrated, and use our scanner to filter by reward-to-volume ratio.

Scalping (small-edge profit-taking, fast turnover) and maker rebate farming both involve resting limit orders on the order book. A scalper posts aggressive bids/asks expecting them to fill on short-term mispricing, then closes quickly — and any rebate-eligible fills along the way are bonus income. A pure maker-rebate strategy posts a tight two-sided market and earns the rebate spread plus the rebate subsidy on every fill. Top wallets on this leaderboard often run hybrid strategies. See the maker rebate guide for the practical playbook, and the LP leaderboard for the complementary time-weighted ranking.

Maker rebates settle on-chain as trades happen, with the distributor wallet batching payouts via Disperse.app. Our cron picks up the new Transfer events at 02:00 UTC every day and refreshes the matview. The "synced X ago" indicator in the page header reflects the actual timestamp of our most recent successful cron run.