How to Fund a Pulse Market Account: Coins, Networks, Fees, Timing
Fund your Pulse Market account in USDC or USDT across six networks, then withdraw the same way. Minimums, conversion fees and timing, screen by screen.
Pulse Market takes USDC and USDT in six networks: BSC, Polygon, Ethereum, Base, Arbitrum and Optimism. Send at least $10. Your money lands on the trading account in Polygon, and a withdrawal runs the same route back. Below is each screen, the fees you see before you confirm, and the timing.
What happens before your first deposit
You activate the trading account once, with two signatures in your wallet. The first signature lets the Polymarket contract debit your funds and move your positions. The second creates the key that submits your orders. The Deposit window opens after both.
The account you fund is a smart contract wallet on Polymarket in the Polygon network. It belongs to your wallet, holds your money and your positions, and every trade goes out in its name. You can follow each operation in the public blockchain.
Where your keys live
You sign in with a six-digit code sent to your email, or through Google. There is no password to lose. The terminal creates a wallet for you at the first sign-in and keeps the keys encrypted.
If you registered by email you can export the private key from the Private Key section in your account. Pulse never asks you for that key, and no support request will. Export it once, store it where you store other secrets, and treat any message asking for it as somebody else's business.
Coins and networks
Two coins work for both directions: USDC and USDT. Six networks carry them: BSC, Polygon, Ethereum, Base, Arbitrum and Optimism.
Polygon is where your balance lives. Whichever network you send from, the terminal converts the transfer for you on arrival. Your choice of network decides what the transfer costs you on the sending side and how long it takes.
How a deposit works
Open Deposit and pick the coin and the network you are sending from. The terminal gives you an address for that pair. Send your transfer to that address from your exchange account or your wallet. The balance appears on your trading account in Polygon once the transfer confirms.
Check the pair before you send. The address belongs to the coin and network you selected, so a transfer in another coin or through another network does not match it.
How much to send
Send $10 or more. Smaller amounts can go to network fees on the way, and you receive what is left after them. The floor is a recommendation rather than a block, and the arithmetic is what makes it one: a $4 transfer through a network charging $3 arrives as $1.
What the deposit window shows before you confirm
Three numbers sit on the screen before you send anything: the price impact, the conversion fee and the processing time. Price impact is the gap between the rate a large liquid trade would get and the rate your conversion gets. The processing time runs from under a minute to several minutes, and the network you picked drives it.
Read all three as one set. A network with a cheap transfer can carry a longer wait, and the window tells you which trade-off you are taking.
Where your money sits after it arrives
The Wallet screen shows the Cash line, the amount available to trade, the portfolio, open positions, money tied up in orders and today's profit. Cash is the part you can spend on a position right now.
Money in open limit orders sits outside Cash until the order fills or you cancel it. The Orders tab lists those, and you cancel them one at a time or all at once.
What the money does once it is there
Cash buys shares in event markets. The smallest market purchase is $1, so your first $10 covers several positions rather than one.
A share price in cents is the market's estimate of probability, and a winning share pays $1 after the event settles. Buy at 25¢ and $10 gives you 40 shares, which pay $40 if that outcome happens. You can also sell before the close and take the result at the price of the moment.
Money you put into open limit orders leaves Cash and comes back if you cancel. Money in a position comes back when you sell it or when the market settles.
How to withdraw
Open Withdraw and set four fields: the amount, the destination address, USDC or USDT, and one of the same six networks. The MAX button fills in everything available.
The confirmation screen repeats the amount, the recipient and the network, then shows a You will receive line with the conversion fee counted in. Read that line rather than the amount you typed, because it is what arrives. A transfer to another network takes from a minute to several minutes.
Deposit | Withdrawal | |
|---|---|---|
You choose | coin and network | amount, address, coin, network |
The screen shows | price impact, conversion fee, processing time | amount, recipient, network, You will receive |
Money moves | to your trading account in Polygon | from the trading account to your address |
Timing | under a minute to several minutes | a minute to several minutes |
Taking winnings out
A settled market does not pay you on its own. Open the wallet or the event page and press Claim, which credits $1 for each winning share. The money joins your Cash line, and from there it goes out through the same Withdraw window.
The Results tab keeps the record: date, market, your stake, profit and loss, return on investment, and the status of each position as won, lost or sold. Read it before you decide how much to withdraw and how much to keep trading.
What you pay
You pay no network fees for trades, for claiming a payout or for activating the account.
A conversion fee applies to every deposit and withdrawal. The window shows that fee before you confirm, in the same place both times.
Each trade carries a trading fee, and the trade panel includes it in the total you see before you confirm. Until 11 October 2026 that fee comes back in part: each buy and sell credits points worth 80 % of the fee multiplied by 100, so a $5 fee gives 400 points. The Points tab in the wallet holds the history.
A check before you press send
Four checks, in the order they bite:
The trading account is active, so the Deposit window opens at all. The coin you send matches the coin you picked in the terminal. The network you send through matches the network you picked. The amount clears $10 after the sending side takes its fee.
Withdrawals need one more check: the destination address belongs to the network you selected in the Withdraw window.
Your first deposit
Open the Pulse terminal, sign the two activation transactions, and open Deposit. Pick USDC on Polygon if your funds already sit there, or BSC if they sit on an exchange. Send $10 or more, watch the Cash line in the wallet, then buy $1 of a market you can argue for. Withdraw a small test amount the same week, so you have seen both directions before you size up.
