A copy-trading bot has one job that matters more than any other: notice that the wallet you follow just traded. Everything after that, from sizing and slippage control to execution and settlement, works on a signal the detection layer either delivered or didn't. On 31 August 2026 Polymarket's activity/trades websocket topic went down platform-wide, for every IP at once, for hours. Every bot that listened only to that topic went deaf. Mine had a slow REST poll as a backup, and that was all...