Glossary

Every term the site uses, defined in the sense this site uses it. Where a word means something slightly different elsewhere in crypto, the definition here is the one that applies on these screens.

The games

Round

One five-minute Price Prediction contest. Rounds overlap: while one is being decided, the next is taking bets.

Market

One Event Prediction question with its own pot and its own answers. A single real-world event can carry several markets.

Outcome

One of the answers offered on a market. Between two and eight per market.

Epoch

A round's number. Rounds are numbered in sequence and the number never repeats.

Position

Which side you took — UP or DOWN in a round, or which outcome in a market.

Time

Open

The moment entries start being accepted.

Lock

The moment entries stop, enforced by the contract rather than by the site. Nothing gets in after it.

Close

The moment the answer exists — the deciding candle, the final whistle, the published result.

Blind window

The stretch between the lock and the close. You cannot act inside it, and it is where the answer is actually produced.

Awaiting resolution

The subject is over and the chain has not been told yet. The card covers itself because nothing on it can change.

Refund window

Opens seven days after a market's lock if it was never resolved. From then, players refund themselves.

UTC

The clock a market's question is written on. Card times use your device's timezone, so the two look different and mean the same instant — and west of UTC they can fall on different days. The market's rule states the settling minute with its full date.

Money

Stake

What you put in. Winning stakes qualify for a payout and eligible cancelled or timed-out events for a refund. Losing stakes are lost.

Pool

All the money behind one outcome, the house's share of the seed included.

Pot

Every pool added together. The whole of what is on the table.

Prize pool

What the card calls the pot.

Seed

The house contribution included in the pools and payout formula. An event splits it evenly across its answers. It is backed by the shared house balance, not reserved separately or counted as protected player funds.

Multiplier

The pot divided by one pool — what a unit staked there returns if it wins. Quoted gross, before the claim fee. It moves whenever anybody enters.

Claim fee

The house's 5%. Fixed when the contest settles, not deducted per claim, and shown as its own line at entry rather than folded into the multiplier.

Reward rate

The share of the pot winners split — 95. The contract refuses to set it below 90.

Refund

Getting your original stake back without a fee. Events refund only after cancellation or the unresolved-event timeout. A valid resolved event never refunds its losing stakes. Price Prediction also refunds tied rounds.

Claim

The transaction that moves your winnings to your wallet. Nothing is pushed to you automatically, and nothing expires.

Price Prediction specifics

Lock price

The price recorded when the round locks. Your bet is measured from it.

Close price

The price recorded when the round closes. Higher than the lock and UP wins; lower and DOWN wins.

Tie

Close price exactly equal to lock price. Nobody wins and every stake becomes refundable.

Bull / Bear

The contract's names for UP and DOWN.

Oracle

Where the deciding price comes from. Some pairs read a feed on chain; others have prices published to the contract with a proof of the reading.

Event Prediction specifics

Rule

The market's own written settlement terms — what decides it, when, and how edge cases fall. Read it before entering.

EventHash

A hash of the question and every answer, written on chain at creation and re-checked on every entry. It is what makes the wording unchangeable.

Event resolution

The operator records the winning answer against the published rule. The contract does not independently verify the result.

Event count

How many events exist, read from eventCount. They are numbered from 1 with no gaps.

Event stake limit

The maximum total one wallet may stake across all entries and outcomes in an event. Splitting a stake into multiple transactions does not increase the limit.

Chain words

Wallet

Your account. It is not created by us and cannot be recovered by us.

Gas

The network's fee for processing a transaction, paid in BNB to the chain rather than to us.

Transaction

One instruction sent to the chain. Once confirmed it is permanent and public.

Contract

The program holding the money and the rules. It is the product; the website is a convenience for talking to it.

Non-custodial

We never hold your funds. They move from your wallet to the contract and back, and there is no balance with us in between.

Protected funds

Recorded player obligations: unsettled stakes, unpaid winner payouts after resolution, or unpaid refunds. House seed is excluded in Event Prediction. Claims and refunds reduce this amount.

Free collateral

The contract balance above its recorded player obligations, or zero if the balance is insufficient. It limits operator withdrawals but does not reserve every event's house seed.