Polymarket pays liquidity rewards to traders who post resting orders near the best price in eligible high-volume markets. This strategy posts passive maker orders sized and placed to maximize that reward score (staying close to the best price and keeping orders up most of the time), rather than to profit from the spread itself. The edge is the subsidy: you aim to trade roughly break-even while the incentive program pays you.
Markets on Polymarket where maker-rebate volume farming is the natural play:
