PolyGun Review: Measuring the Gap Between the Marketing and the Documentation

What PolyGun is

PolyGun is a Telegram-only trading bot for Polymarket, reached through @PolyGunSniperBot, that sells two things: price-trigger “sniper” orders and copy trading that mirrors chosen wallets at configurable ratios, with wallets browsable by category — Sports, Crypto, Politics, Insider. Third-party reviews report deposits from Polygon, Ethereum, Solana, and BNB, though the vendor’s own pages don’t confirm that. Independent research outlet Open Measures documented a Telegram community of roughly 206,000 users in July 2026, so this is not a fringe product. It is, however, an unusually hard one to verify: there is no docs site, no web dashboard, and a cluster of near-identical marketing domains that makes even the question “which site is the official one?” nontrivial. That verification problem frames everything below.

The custody dispute

The vendor’s pitch is explicit: polygunsniperbot.com states that “the bot never holds your assets or requires custody of your keys,” with a wallet generated inside the bot. Open Measures, in research published July 14, 2026, reports the opposite architecture — that despite the non-custodial branding, PolyGun stores users’ private keys on its servers — and flags the structural front-running risk that creates, since an operator who holds keys and sees incoming order flow could in principle trade ahead of it. A third data point comes from DefiPill’s review, which confirms the generated key is exportable at any time via the Settings menu. Note that these can all be true at once: a key can be exportable by you and also retained server-side. Our data weights the independent research over the marketing copy, quotes the vendor’s characterization alongside it, and records that no independent audit exists to close the question. Until one does, the honest description is: custody contested, with the only on-the-record independent source reporting that the keys live on PolyGun’s servers.

The fee contradiction

What does PolyGun cost? It depends on which PolyGun site you read. polygun.app advertises “Zero-Fee On-Chain Trading”; polygunsniperbot.com says users pay only Polymarket’s standard fees. Against that, DefiPill states PolyGun charges a flat 1% on executed trades, separate from Polymarket’s platform fees — and PolyMart reports the same 1% independently. We could not resolve the contradiction, and the domain cluster makes it hard to establish which vendor claim is even canonical. The practical takeaway is not “it costs 1%”; it’s that a product whose own materials disagree with multiple third-party reviews about its price deserves a small test trade before any trust.

The speed story

PolyGun’s name and marketing are about speed: the vendor advertises a sniper that executes the moment a target price hits, roughly two minutes from setup to first trade. The only independent execution datapoint we found runs the other way — a user complaint documented by Open Measures reporting copy executions landing 30–60 seconds behind the Polymarket activity being mirrored, long enough for the market to move against the copier. The fair reading separates the two features: price-trigger snipes may well fire quickly (nobody has independently measured them), while the documented complaint concerns the copy engine, which is where most users’ money would actually ride. The marketing describes the first; the evidence on record describes the second.

If you use it anyway

Some traders will still want the curated wallet categories and the frictionless Telegram flow, so the fairest ending is precautions rather than a lecture. Export the private key immediately — DefiPill confirms the Settings-menu export works. Treat the wallet as potentially shared, given Open Measures’ reporting, and fund it only with an amount you would accept losing. Place one small trade and read the fee line before sizing up; it’s the only way to learn what you’re actually paying. And don’t count on protective exits, because no stop-loss or take-profit is documented anywhere we reviewed. If that checklist feels like too much homework, that is itself the signal — verified alternatives with documented custody exist at every price point.