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How to integrate Polymarket Odds with OpenClaw

Direct answer: Integrate Polymarket Odds with OpenClaw by building a small, authenticated skill that calls Polymarket’s Odds API (either by receiving webhooks from Polymarket or by polling the API), exposing only the minimal runtime surface in the agent and pushing stateful or long-running work to external services (web server for webhooks, scheduler/queue for polling or retries, and a secure secret store for API keys/tokens). Configure the skill through ClawHub with environment variables and credentials, validate webhooks or OAuth exchanges server-side, implement idempotency and rate-limit handling, and use logs + API response inspection when debugging.

 

Design and required capabilities

 

  • Decide what you need from Polymarket Odds — e.g., read market lists, fetch per-market odds, subscribe to market updates, or submit transactions. Most integrations use read-only odds and market state; actions that modify markets require stronger auth and must be carefully scoped.
  • Choose an ingestion mode — webhooks (push) if Polymarket supports them for Odds updates, or polling if not. Webhooks give low-latency and lower rate usage; polling is simpler if webhooks are unavailable.
  • Authentication — Polymarket may require API keys or OAuth. Implement the flow Polymarket specifies; store credentials securely and never bake secrets into the skill code.
  • Where things run — keep the OpenClaw skill lightweight: call external endpoints and return results. Run webhooks, schedulers, persistent stores, and heavy processing outside the agent (external web server, queue, DB).

 

Authentication and credentials (vendor-neutral)

 

  • API key model — keep the key in a secure environment variable via ClawHub or your secret store. Send it in an Authorization header (e.g., Authorization: Bearer <KEY> or x-api-key) as Polymarket requires.
  • OAuth model — implement the authorization-code or client-credentials flow depending on Polymarket’s support. Do the token exchange and refresh outside the agent in a backend service. Store access tokens and refresh tokens in a secure store and inject only short-lived access tokens into the skill at runtime if necessary.
  • Least privilege — request only scopes required for the operations (read odds vs write/orders). Rotate keys and enforce expiration for tokens when possible.

 

High-level architecture (what runs where)

 

  • OpenClaw skill (installed via ClawHub) — small stateless code that validates requests, calls your backend or directly calls Polymarket for simple reads, and returns results to the agent. It should not host long-running polling loops or hold persistent state.
  • External backend — required components: webhook HTTP endpoint, scheduler or cron job for polling, queue for retryable operations, and a database for caching or historical data. This backend handles token refresh, signature verification, and persists state.
  • Secrets and configuration — put API keys, OAuth client secrets, webhook signing secrets, and other sensitive values in a secrets manager or in ClawHub-provided env vars if supported and secure.

 

Skill configuration in ClawHub (vendor-neutral checklist)

 

  • Register the skill in ClawHub; give it an explicit name and description of permissions it needs.
  • Store required environment variables (API_BASE, POLY_API_KEY, OAUTH_CLIENT_ID, OAUTH_CLIENT_SECRET, WEBHOOK_SIGNING\_SECRET) using the secure configuration interface in ClawHub.
  • Configure outbound network access if ClawHub requires allowlisting to reach Polymarket endpoints.
  • Set explicit timeouts and memory limits for the skill so it remains lightweight and predictable.

 

Implementing Polymarket API calls (generic REST examples)

 

Example: read odds for a market ID with an API key (Node.js using fetch). Replace baseUrl and headers per Polymarket docs and your credentials.

// Fetch market odds (generic REST example)
const baseUrl = process.env.POLY_API_BASE; // e.g. https://api.polymarket.example
const apiKey = process.env.POLY_API_KEY;

async function fetchMarketOdds(marketId) {
  const url = `${baseUrl}/markets/${marketId}/odds`;
  const res = await fetch(url, {
    method: "GET",
    headers: {
      "Accept": "application/json",
      "Authorization": `Bearer ${apiKey}` // or "x-api-key": apiKey depending on provider
    },
    // // optional timeout using AbortController
  });
  // // check status and parse JSON
  if (!res.ok) {
    const body = await res.text();
    throw new Error(`Polymarket API error ${res.status}: ${body}`);
  }
  return res.json();
}

 

Webhook receiver example (Node + Express) with signature verification

 

If Polymarket can deliver webhooks for odds updates, run a public HTTPS endpoint that validates a signature header. The exact signature scheme depends on Polymarket; the code shows HMAC-SHA256 verification as a common pattern. Replace verification details with Polymarket's documented method.

// Minimal Express webhook receiver
const express = require("express");
const crypto = require("crypto");
const bodyParser = require("body-parser");

const app = express();
app.use(bodyParser.raw({ type: "*/*" })); // read raw body for signature verification

const webhookSecret = process.env.WEBHOOK_SIGNING_SECRET;

function verifySignature(rawBody, signatureHeader) {
  // // common pattern: HMAC-SHA256 hex of raw body, keyed by webhookSecret
  const h = crypto.createHmac("sha256", webhookSecret);
  h.update(rawBody);
  const expected = h.digest("hex");
  return crypto.timingSafeEqual(Buffer.from(expected, "utf8"), Buffer.from(signatureHeader, "utf8"));
}

app.post("/webhook/polymarket/odds", (req, res) => {
  const signature = req.get("x-polymarket-signature") || ""; // placeholder header name
  if (!verifySignature(req.body, signature)) {
    return res.status(401).send("invalid signature");
  }
  // // parse JSON after verification
  const payload = JSON.parse(req.body.toString("utf8"));
  // // enqueue for processing by your backend worker
  // enqueueEvent(payload);
  res.status(200).send("ok");
});

app.listen(process.env.PORT || 3000);

 

Polling example (scheduler pattern)

 

If there is no webhook support, a scheduled job in your external backend polls important markets and pushes diffs to your skill or to downstream consumers. Keep the agent out of the long-running scheduler.

// Poller job (run on a cron or scheduler)
const POLL_INTERVAL_MS = 30_000; // example: 30 seconds

async function pollMarkets(marketIds) {
  for (const id of marketIds) {
    try {
      const odds = await fetchMarketOdds(id);
      // // persist or enqueue diff logic
      // saveOrPublish(odds);
    } catch (err) {
      console.error("poll error", id, err);
      // // backoff and retry/requeue
    }
  }
}

// // scheduler run (use real scheduler for production)
setInterval(() => pollMarkets(["marketA", "marketB"]), POLL_INTERVAL_MS);

 

Idempotency, retries, rate limiting, and error handling

 

  • Idempotency — when processing webhooks, ensure each event has a unique ID and store that ID in your DB to avoid double-processing.
  • Retries — use exponential backoff for transient errors. Prefer a queue with dead-letter handling for persistent failures.
  • Rate limits — read Polymarket’s rate limits and implement client-side rate limiting and caching to avoid being throttled.
  • Validate API responses — check HTTP status codes and response bodies; surface enough context in logs so you can replay failing calls.

 

Security best practices

 

  • Keep secrets out of source control and use the ClawHub secure env mechanism or a dedicated secrets manager.
  • Validate and verify webhook signatures strictly and respond with appropriate HTTP codes so senders can retry on transient failures.
  • Use HTTPS for all endpoints. Use service-account credentials for machine-to-machine flows where possible.
  • Apply least privilege for tokens and restrict IPs if the provider supports it.

 

Observability and debugging

 

  • Log request/response pairs (redact secrets) and include request IDs and timestamps to correlate ClawHub skill invocations with backend events.
  • When something breaks, reproduce the failing API call with curl or Postman to inspect exact headers and payloads, confirm credentials and scopes, and check response bodies for provider error codes.
  • Use the provider’s dashboard or API to inspect consumed quota and recent requests if available.
  • Confirm the skill is being invoked as intended by checking ClawHub’s install/usage logs and your backend logs for the incoming requests. If an expected webhook never arrives, verify webhook subscription state on the Polymarket side and that your endpoint responds within any timeout limits.

 

Testing and rollout

 

  • Work in a staging environment with test keys or sandbox endpoints if Polymarket provides them.
  • Run end-to-end tests that simulate webhooks and test failure modes (bad signature, expired token, 5xx from Polymarket).
  • Gradually roll out read-only capabilities first, then enable any write actions after careful review and safety checks.

 

Production considerations

 

  • Keep persistent state (event history, processed IDs, cached odds) outside the agent runtime for reliability and retention.
  • Prefer push (webhooks) for real-time updates and polling with sensible backoff for catch-up or backfill.
  • Monitor quotas and set alerts for error spikes and increased latency.

 

Summary: Build a small ClawHub-installed skill that delegates heavy work to an external backend: secure API keys/OAuth in a secrets store, validate webhooks or poll responsibly for odds, implement idempotency and retries, and use robust logging and monitoring to debug. Keep the skill stateless and explicit — configure everything in ClawHub and your backend so the integration is auditable and maintainable.

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Troubleshooting Polymarket Odds and OpenClaw Integration

1

Why does OpenClaw instrument registry fail to map Polymarket marketId when configuring the Polymarket feed adapter in config.yaml?

The registry fails to map Polymarket marketId because the adapter and the registry disagree about the identifier name or value at runtime: common causes are a casing/key mismatch, YAML formatting (unquoted values or wrong nesting), the feed emitting a different field than you configured, or the registry snapshot not loaded/refreshing so the key isn’t present. Authentication/permission errors can also prevent the adapter from resolving the instrument.

 

Root causes and fixes

 
  • Key/name mismatch — ensure the exact field name and case the feed emits matches your registry mapping.
  • YAML/formatting — validate config.yaml (quotes, indentation) so the mapping entry is parsed.
  • Runtime vs config — confirm the feed message schema actually contains marketId at runtime (inspect logs/API payloads).
  • Registry freshness & permissions — reload/refresh registry and verify credentials so lookups succeed.

2

How to handle Polymarket websocket sequence gaps and snapshot mismatch in the OpenClaw feed-parser / market adapter?

Polymarket websocket gaps and snapshot mismatches should be handled by detecting sequence discontinuities, pausing event application, fetching a fresh REST snapshot of the market state, reconciling events after the snapshot sequence, and resuming. Persist the last-applied sequence per market outside the agent (database or durable store), deduplicate by sequence id, and log+alert when resyncs occur.

 

Resync pattern

 

On gap: pause processing, fetch snapshot, validate snapshot.seq, apply snapshot, reapply queued events with seq > snapshot.seq, update persisted last_seq.

  • Idempotency: drop events ≤ last_seq.
  • Persistence: store last_seq externally (DB, KV).
  • Retries: backoff on REST failures; alert on repeated mismatch.
// JS outline
if (msg.seq !== last_seq+1) {
  pause();
  snapshot = await http.get('/market/snapshot');
  if (snapshot.seq>last_seq) apply(snapshot);
  replayBufferedEventsAbove(snapshot.seq);
  resume();
}

3

How to convert Polymarket probability/odds into OpenClaw tick size and price precision for strategy config and risk manager?

 

Direct answer

 

Convert Polymarket probability (0–1) to OpenClaw tick/precision by choosing a tick equal to the marketplace minimum price increment (e.g. 0.01, 0.0001). Derive precision as the decimals needed to represent that tick, then represent prices as integer ticks (price_ticks = round(probability / tick)). Use integer ticks inside strategy and risk manager to avoid floating errors.

 

Details and example

 
  • Pick tick: read Polymarket min increment or choose safe default (e.g. 1e-4).
  • Compute precision: number of decimal places of tick.
  • Store: use integer ticks for risk math and config.
// compute precision and convert price <-> ticks
function tickToPrecision(tick){
  for(let p=0;p<=8;p++){
    if(Math.abs(Math.round(tick*Math.pow(10,p))-tick*Math.pow(10,p))<1e-9) return p;
  }
  return 8;
}
function priceToTicks(price,tick){ return Math.round(price/tick); }
function ticksToPrice(ticks,tick){ return ticks*tick; }
// example
const tick=0.0001; const prec=tickToPrecision(tick);
const ticks=priceToTicks(0.37425,tick); // use in risk manager

4

How to handle Polymarket market state transitions (OPEN, SUSPENDED, RESOLVED) in the OpenClaw order manager and position manager to avoid stale orders and incorrect PnL?

Direct answer: Always gate order placement and PnL updates on the Polymarket market state; cancel or halt orders when a market becomes SUSPENDED and fully settle positions and realize PnL when it becomes RESOLVED. Keep an authoritative market-state record outside the agent runtime, validate before any skill executes orders, and make state transitions idempotent and logged.

 

Operational steps

 

Maintain a single source-of-truth (external DB) for market state updated by Polymarket webhooks and periodic API polls. In the order manager:

  • Reject/new-cancel orders if state ≠ OPEN.
  • On SUSPENDED, cancel live orders and flag orders as pending-review.
  • On RESOLVED, mark positions closed, compute PnL from settlement data, and archive orders.

Ensure checks before skill execution, idempotent handlers, clear logs, and reconciliation jobs to prevent stale orders and incorrect PnL.

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