Two shapes of venue
What you trade under differs by venue, and it decides how a credential reaches a pod. On Polymarket and Limitless you trade under a wallet. Each pod is created with its own wallet, so there is nothing to connect, and the wallet belongs to the pod permanently. On Kalshi and ProphetX you trade under a KYC’d account belonging to your entity. An account is connected once and then tied to the pods that may use it.Connecting an account venue
1
Connect the account at the organization
An admin supplies the venue API credential. It is verified on intake and
stored encrypted, with the signing key held in a hardware module.
2
Tie it to a pod
An explicit grant that lets that pod trade through that account. Untied pods
cannot reach it.
3
Traders trade through the tie
Traders in the pod place orders. They never see or handle the credential.
Separation between pods
Decimal values
Prices, sizes and dollar amounts that the API returns as strings are decimals, and their number of decimal places is not fixed. The same value can come back with a different scale or different trailing zeros from one endpoint to the next, so"0.12", "0.1200" and "0.120000" can all be the same price. Compare these values as numbers, never as strings, and format them for display yourself. Where a field’s API reference description states a scale, that field keeps it.
Connection health
Venue credentials are monitored and surfaced in the Platform:
Revoked and invalid are terminal. They are resolved by supplying a new
credential, not by retrying.
A credential that has expired or been rotated at the venue cannot be detected
until a call fails. If you rotate a key on the venue side, update it here at
the same time.