The terminal

The terminal is Ballista in a browser. It shares one account and one balance with the Telegram bot and the Chrome extension — orders you place here settle into the same Polymarket positions, and a deposit made anywhere shows up everywhere. It is also the only surface with the backtester, the leaderboard and trader profiles.

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The nav rail

The rail down the left side is how you move between sections. Of the sections above, every one but Markets needs a session. Open one signed out and you get a sign-in prompt rather than a broken page. The rail carries a couple of other entries that are placeholders for features that are not built yet. The button at the bottom of the rail collapses it to icons only. The choice is remembered in that browser.

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The top bar

Left to right: the name of the section you are in, a search box, and the account controls. The search box is a live search over markets. Type in it and the Markets page reloads with your results after a short pause — you do not press Enter. It is the same search the ⌘K palette runs, so use whichever is closer to hand; see Getting around.

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Connect, Deposit, Disconnect

Connect opens the sign-in dialog. You must have registered in the Ballista Telegram bot before this will work. Deposit opens your deposit addresses without leaving the page you are on. You get one address for six EVM networks, one for Solana, one for Bitcoin, and your Polymarket profile address for sending straight to the proxy wallet with no bridge in between. Each address has a copy button, and your current balance sits at the top of the dialog next to links to your Polymarket profile and PolygonScan. The minimum is $10. Full detail is in Deposits. The first time you open it — or the first time you try to trade — you may be asked to set up your wallet. That is a one-time step that provisions your proxy wallet and bridge addresses, and it can take a minute. Disconnect signs you out of this browser. It does nothing to your account, your positions or your copy trades; sign back in and everything is where you left it.

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Light and dark

Both themes are fully designed, not one inverted into the other. The terminal follows your operating system’s setting by default, and the sun/moon button in the top bar overrides it. The choice is remembered in that browser, and it carries between tabs. Pressing d is the faster way to switch, and the more reliable one — the button can need two clicks the first time you use it. Both are covered in Getting around.

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