Polymarket Taker Rebates

The Taker Rebate programme pays aggressive (taker-side) traders back a percentage of the taker fees they pay — a tiered loyalty reward. The more you trade as a taker over a trailing 30-day window, the higher your tier, and the larger the share of your taker fees you get back (from 3% at Bronze up to 50% at Obsidian). Rebates are paid every day at midnight UTC in pUSD, straight to your account. It's the taker-side counterpart to the maker rebate programme.

Your tier is set by your 30-day weighted volume (wV), recalculated on a rolling basis. The tiers: Bronze ($2k wV → 3%), Silver ($20k → 8%), Gold ($200k → 18%), Platinum ($1M → 32%), Diamond ($4M → 44%), Obsidian ($10M+ → 50%). Each tier reached also pays a one-time level-up bonus. Below $2k wV you're un-tiered (0%).

wV = trade size × (1 − entry price) × category weight × bonuses, where trade size is shares × price in dollars. Category weights reward harder-to-price markets: Crypto 2.3, Economics / Culture / Weather / Other 1.7, Politics / Finance / Tech 1.3, Sports 1.0. Geopolitics markets are fee-free and earn no weighted volume. Example from the docs: 1,000 shares at $0.40 in a Politics market = 400 × 0.60 × 1.3 = $312 wV.

On-chain Transfer events from Polymarket's taker-rebate distributor wallet on Polygon. Same pipeline as the LP, maker, referral and yield leaderboards — Polygon RPC watches inbound Transfer events into recipient wallets and aggregates per address. No scraping, no third-party API — just blockchain truth. For lifetime, monthly and daily distribution totals plus the concentration breakdown, see our taker rebate distribution stats.

Each view aggregates taker-rebate payouts within its window from the same on-chain Transfer events. All-time shows lifetime cumulative rebates. 30-day and 7-day show only payouts received in the trailing month/week. (Note: these are rebate dollars received, not weighted volume — your live tier is set separately by your 30-day wV.) Use the period picker above the table to switch.

Both pay you back a share of fees, but for opposite order types. Maker rebates reward passive fills — resting limit orders that add liquidity. Taker rebates reward aggressive fills — orders that take liquidity off the book — and scale with a 30-day volume tier rather than a flat per-category rate. Active traders often earn both. See the maker leaderboard for the passive side.

Taker rebates are a discretionary, variable programme — Polymarket can change the tier thresholds, rates, or weighting at any time (check the official docs for live numbers). The rebate offsets part of the taker fee you pay; it does not make taking liquidity free. And chasing a higher tier by over-trading can cost more in fees and spread than the rebate returns — volume for its own sake is rarely +EV.

Taker rebates distribute daily via on-chain Transfer events. Our cron picks up the new events at 02:00 UTC every day and refreshes the matview. The "synced X ago" indicator in the page header reflects the timestamp of our most recent successful cron run.