State in README that the current codebase does not support using a proxy wallet

[corneliusroemer]

I was stuck trying to figure out why my balance was supposedly 0 despite having gotten the private key from Magic.

It turns out the current code base does not support the use of proxy wallets as is. This should be stated in the README, otherwise it's very confusing.

Proxy wallet is how one usually interacts with Polymarket through the website.

[ahippelainen]

@corneliusroemer did you ever figure out what parts specifically need updating to be usable with a proxy wallet? Considering trying to fork this for personal use with a proxy if possible

[lumalik]

Thank you for the thread, I was looking into this as well. Did one of you get it to work?

I was looking at adding a proxy funder argument to clop_api.py, however, this is still showing zero balance ...
https://github.com/Polymarket/py-clob-client?tab=readme-ov-file#start-trading-proxy-wallet

I also tried using it with a metamask wallet but apparently you can only get a polymarket "private key" when you are using a proxy wallet? (according to the documentation)
So I am wondering how one should use this repository or whether I am missing something.