Polymarket Cadence Explained

Cadence decides which questions are answerable: at 250ms the 26-second family collapse across coins is a visible event; at minute granularity it is a step in a smoothed line. The venue's own microstructure — 90% of final-second books single-sided — is cadence-dependent by construction.

The honest consequence: a study's claim inherits its cadence, so every result on this site names the grid it used, and the latency and fidelity pages are the companion documents.

The Aug-23 repricing event reads differently at 1s (a collapse), at 1m (a step), and at 250ms (a choreography of bid/ask rotation and reference prints). The recorded frames hold all three views; coarse data holds only the last.

A study that names its cadence can be re-verified at any grid the archive retains — the reproducibility guarantee of a multi-cadence record.

Cadence is a contract: "captured at 250ms" is a claim that sits between the data and every conclusion built on it, and the honest habit is checking whether a result survives a coarser re-query — the cheapest robustness test in the toolkit.

• Latency data
• Fidelity
• Timestamp explained