Polymarket pUSD Yield — Daily Distribution

Lifetime, daily, monthly totals for every Polymarket Holding Rewards payout — Polymarket's official name for what the community informally calls "yield". Despite the colloquial label, this is not interest on pUSD balances — it's paid for taking long-term directional positions in a curated list of political and geopolitical markets (2028 US presidential, 2026 midterms, several long-running geopolitical bets), settled daily in pUSD by Polymarket's Treasury via the Holding Rewards distributor wallet on Polygon. For the 4% APR rate, the eligible-market list, the hourly sampling formula, and wallet rankings see the Holding Rewards leaderboard; for the practical setup walkthrough see our 4% APR guide.

We sum every Transfer event from Polymarket's Holding Rewards distributor wallet on Polygon, bucketed by the day of the on-chain block timestamp. System addresses (the pUSD contract, USDC.e contract, Disperse, the distributor wallet itself, Polymarket Treasury, V2 exchange contracts, sponsor-rewards contracts) are filtered out before aggregation so the totals reflect real recipient wallets only.

Holding Rewards scale linearly with position value: a wallet holding a $100k position earns roughly $11/day at 4% APR; a wallet holding $10 earns 0.1 cents. The eligible markets are dominated by 2028 US presidential and 2026 midterm bets, where Polymarket attracts whale-sized capital. The top 1% of recipients typically claim roughly 90% of all rewards paid — the most skewed distribution of any Polymarket reward stream and the expected behaviour for a position-value-proportional payout. The Concentration block above shows the shape.

On-chain Transfer events on Polygon, scanned daily by the PolyScalping reward-ledger cron at ~02:00 UTC. We watch each Polymarket distributor wallet directly — no third-party aggregators, no scraping. System addresses (the pUSD contract, USDC.e contract, Disperse.app, distributor wallets themselves, treasury, V2 exchange contracts, sponsor-reward contracts) are filtered out before aggregation so the totals reflect real recipients only.

Once a day. Holding Rewards distribute daily via on-chain Transfer events; our cron picks up the new events at ~02:00 UTC and the page revalidates hourly via Next.js ISR.