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Quick answers to the questions stakers ask most often. If you don’t find what you need here, join the Discord community — the team and other users are happy to help.
Robin Markets is a capital efficiency layer for prediction markets. It lets you stake your Polymarket YES or NO outcome tokens into a vault that pairs opposing positions, merges them into USDC, and earns DeFi yield — all while preserving your original market exposure. See How it works for the full lifecycle.
There is currently no protocol fee — you keep 100% of the yield your staked capital earns. The yield guarantee, matching bonus, and points yield are paid to you in full from Robin’s wallet; they are never deducted from your earnings.The vault contract supports an optional protocol fee on the organic vault yield, but it is set to 0% today. Any future change is gated behind Robin’s TimeLock controller and team multi-sig, and a fee could only ever apply to organic yield, never to your principal.
Robin is non-custodial — your funds stay on-chain and under your control at all times — and uses no leverage, so there is no liquidation risk. Your directional bet is fully preserved: when you withdraw, you get your original YES or NO tokens back, exactly as if you had held them on Polymarket.Like any DeFi protocol, Robin does carry smart contract risk and the third-party yield sources (Yearn, Morpho, Aave v3, etc.), as well as the Polymarket contracts we interact with, carry their own. Lending pools can also occasionally face temporary liquidity constraints. Read the full Risks page before you stake, and only stake funds you can afford to lose.
Robin works with the on-chain Polymarket account that holds your outcome tokens — either a newer Polymarket Deposit Wallet or a legacy Gnosis Safe proxy. Connect the same wallet you use on Polymarket and Robin detects the right account automatically.
Email / MagicLink Polymarket accounts (created by signing up with an email address) are not currently supported.
Not on the current vault. Robin’s contracts are built on Polymarket’s Conditional Tokens Framework (the “v1” markets), so every market Robin lists today keeps working as before — deposits, withdrawals, yield, and bonuses. Markets created on Protocol V2 are marked not supported in the app, and newly created Polymarket markets will not appear as stakeable after the switch. See Polymarket Protocol V2 for the full picture, including what it means for the yield source.
Withdrawals are processed in a single on-chain transaction — Robin burns your shares, unwinds any deployed capital, reconstructs your outcome tokens from USDC if needed, and returns everything atomically. There are no lockups; you can withdraw before or after market resolution.Your bonus payout (guarantee top-up, matching bonus, and points yield) arrives in a separate USDC transaction from Robin’s wallet, typically within a few seconds to a few minutes after your withdrawal confirms.Currently, merged capital sits in the Split Vault as fully hedged YES+NO pairs that always merge back to USDC at par, so there are no lending-pool liquidity delays.
If you stake on one side of a market and there aren’t yet enough opposing tokens on the other side, your tokens sit idle in the vault. They still earn yield while unmatched as part of the pool. The moment a counterpart deposit arrives, Robin automatically pairs and merges them and deploys the resulting USDC. You don’t need to do anything.
Yes. When you withdraw — including a withdrawal at market resolution — your outcome tokens and yield move back to Polymarket, and your winning tokens redeem there for USDC. Your on-chain record looks exactly as if you had held the tokens directly on Polymarket the whole time, so your PnL and win rate stay consistent.
Your APY combines up to four sources: the organic vault yield from on-chain investments, a minimum 6% APY guarantee, an extra 1% matching bonus for staking the pool-balancing side, and an extra 1% points yield when you hold Robin Points. The app shows the full breakdown for every market. See Yield guarantee and the Points program.
No. Organic yield accrues automatically in the value of your vault shares and is returned when you withdraw. The guarantee, matching, and points bonuses are calculated at withdrawal and paid automatically — there is nothing to claim manually. You can review every payout in the Activity tab of your portfolio.
Your beta TVL is still fully accessible and withdrawable, and your beta points carry over to the current product with a 10× multiplier. No action is required. See the Beta program page for details and the legacy app link.
Robin runs on Polygon. It stakes Polymarket conditional (outcome) tokens on the Conditional Tokens Framework (v1 markets; see Polymarket Protocol V2) and deploys the merged collateral as USDC.e into DeFi yield strategies. See Smart contracts for all on-chain addresses.

How it works

Walk through the full lifecycle of a staked position, from deposit to resolution.

Risks

Understand smart contract and liquidity risks before you stake.