Is My Money Safe?

Short answer: Polycopy never holds your money, and cannot hold it. Your funds sit in your own Polymarket account for their entire life. Polycopy is a tool that places orders against that account when you tell it to. Almost everything else on this page follows from that one design choice.

A custodial service takes your deposit into its own account and owes you a balance. If it fails, gets hacked, or freezes withdrawals, your money is inside the failure. Polycopy is not that. There is no Polycopy deposit address, no Polycopy balance, and no Polycopy withdrawal. You fund Polymarket, you withdraw from Polymarket, and Polycopy never sits between you and your money.

The consequence is worth being blunt about. If Polycopy shut down tomorrow, your funds and open positions would be exactly where they are now, and you would carry on trading on Polymarket without us.

To place an order for you, Polycopy has to be able to sign one. You provide that ability by exporting your Polymarket key and pasting it into Settings. What happens next is the part that matters. The key is encrypted in your browser, using Turnkey's encryption, before it leaves your device. The encrypted bundle passes through our servers only to reach Turnkey, which holds it in hardware security modules. Polycopy never sees your key in readable form. Our database stores your public wallet address and a reference to the Turnkey wallet, and nothing else.

Turnkey is a specialist wallet-security company, and the arrangement is deliberately narrow. Polycopy can ask Turnkey to sign a specific order. Polycopy cannot ask Turnkey for the key itself.

Assume the worst case, and somebody takes our entire database. What they would find: email addresses, public wallet addresses, copy history, who you follow, and subscription status. That is unpleasant and worth being honest with you about.

What they would not find: a single private key. Keys are not in our database and never pass through it in readable form. They would also find no card details, because those live with Stripe.

You are never locked in. Open Settings, go to the wallet section, and disconnect. The encrypted key is deleted from Turnkey, and from that moment Polycopy cannot sign anything on your account. Your trade history stays in your account for your own records, and your funds are untouched because they were never with us in the first place.

Two things worth knowing. Cancelling Premium does not disconnect your wallet, so if you want the connection gone, disconnect it yourself. And disconnecting does not close your Polymarket account, which carries on exactly as before. See How to Disconnect or Change Your Wallet.

Custody safety is not the same as trading safety. Copying a trader can lose money, and often does. A market can resolve against you and the shares become worthless. Nothing on this page protects you from that. Position sizing and your own limits do. See the risks of using Polycopy.