Check a viral trading-bot claim against Polymarket's public leaderboard
P7RIM3 checked a viral post crediting Grok Bot with a Polymarket wallet's profits. The leaderboard showed the wallet at +$266,938 after losses with about 150 trades an hour on short Bitcoin, Ethereum and Solana Up-or-Down markets, but nothing connected it to Grok Bot.
Source
@P7RIM3 on X · 2026-10-18
Written in our own words. Credit to the original author. Link checked 2026-10-24.
What they did
P7RIM3 checked a viral post crediting Grok Bot with a Polymarket wallet's profits. The leaderboard showed the wallet at +$266,938 after losses with about 150 trades an hour on short Bitcoin, Ethereum and Solana Up-or-Down markets, but nothing connected it to Grok Bot.
Result (as claimed)
The profit was real; the AI bot story attached to it was not.
Tools they used
Cost: Pricing depends on the tools you pick; check each official pricing page.
Set it up
Gather your sources
Collect the papers, notes, links or files you want to work from in one place.
Load them into the tool
Open Polymarket and add your sources. Keep the original files so you can check claims later.
Ask focused questions
Ask for summaries, comparisons or connections with citations to the source passages.
Verify and save
Spot check claims against the sources, then save the output as notes you can reuse.
Copy the full setup prompt
Paste into your agent and it will walk you through the setup, asking before anything that sends, posts or spends.
You are helping me set up this AI use case end to end in Claude Code. Goal: Check a viral trading-bot claim against Polymarket's public leaderboard What the original author did: P7RIM3 checked a viral post crediting Grok Bot with a Polymarket wallet's profits. The leaderboard showed the wallet at +$266,938 after losses with about 150 trades an hour on short Bitcoin, Ethereum and Solana Up-or-Down markets, but nothing connected it to Grok Bot. Reported result (as claimed by the author): The profit was real; the AI bot story attached to it was not. Source: https://x.com/P7RIM3/status/2111944343002992948 Tools they used: Polymarket Category: Research & learning Please: 1. Ask me 3 short questions about my situation (accounts I have, budget, what I want the output to look like). 2. Propose a step-by-step plan using these tools or cheaper alternatives, with the time and cost of each step. Use official pricing pages; say "check pricing" if unsure. 3. Then do the setup with me one step at a time, waiting for my OK before anything that sends messages, posts publicly, spends money or deletes data. 4. Finish with a checklist to run it again next time.
You are helping me set up this AI use case end to end in Codex. Goal: Check a viral trading-bot claim against Polymarket's public leaderboard What the original author did: P7RIM3 checked a viral post crediting Grok Bot with a Polymarket wallet's profits. The leaderboard showed the wallet at +$266,938 after losses with about 150 trades an hour on short Bitcoin, Ethereum and Solana Up-or-Down markets, but nothing connected it to Grok Bot. Reported result (as claimed by the author): The profit was real; the AI bot story attached to it was not. Source: https://x.com/P7RIM3/status/2111944343002992948 Tools they used: Polymarket Category: Research & learning Please: 1. Ask me 3 short questions about my situation (accounts I have, budget, what I want the output to look like). 2. Propose a step-by-step plan using these tools or cheaper alternatives, with the time and cost of each step. Use official pricing pages; say "check pricing" if unsure. 3. Then do the setup with me one step at a time, waiting for my OK before anything that sends messages, posts publicly, spends money or deletes data. 4. Finish with a checklist to run it again next time.
You are helping me set up this AI use case end to end in Grok Bot. Goal: Check a viral trading-bot claim against Polymarket's public leaderboard What the original author did: P7RIM3 checked a viral post crediting Grok Bot with a Polymarket wallet's profits. The leaderboard showed the wallet at +$266,938 after losses with about 150 trades an hour on short Bitcoin, Ethereum and Solana Up-or-Down markets, but nothing connected it to Grok Bot. Reported result (as claimed by the author): The profit was real; the AI bot story attached to it was not. Source: https://x.com/P7RIM3/status/2111944343002992948 Tools they used: Polymarket Category: Research & learning Please: 1. Ask me 3 short questions about my situation (accounts I have, budget, what I want the output to look like). 2. Propose a step-by-step plan using these tools or cheaper alternatives, with the time and cost of each step. Use official pricing pages; say "check pricing" if unsure. 3. Then do the setup with me one step at a time, waiting for my OK before anything that sends messages, posts publicly, spends money or deletes data. 4. Finish with a checklist to run it again next time.
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