Payouts & Fees
Where a multiplier comes from, why it moves while you are looking at it, and exactly what the house keeps. Both games use the same arithmetic.
There is one formula on this page and everything else follows from it. It is worth ten minutes, because almost every complaint about a pool game comes from someone who assumed the multiplier was a quote rather than a division.
The formula
The total pot is every stake in the market, the house's opening seed included. The winning pool is the part of it that sat behind the answer that turned out to be right. Your share of that pool is your share of everything.
Worked all the way through
Take an event market with two answers. The house seeds it with 2 BNB, split evenly, so it opens at 2.00× on both sides. Then players arrive: 3 BNB backs A and 1 BNB backs B.
A turns out to be right. You staked 1 BNB on it. The house takes 5% of the pot, so 5.70 BNB is shared out across the 4 BNB that backed A:
Why the number moves
Every entry changes both halves of the division: it grows the total pot and it grows one pool. The answer it lands on gets cheaper; every other answer gets richer.
This includes your own entry. If you put 1 BNB onto a pool holding 0.5 BNB, you have just tripled that pool, and the 4.00× you were looking at is not the price you got. The confirmation screen quotes your actual return with your own money already counted — that is the number to read, not the one on the card.
That return is an estimate, not a fixed rate. Later entries change the pools again. All winning stakes use the final pool ratio, regardless of when they were placed.
What the house takes
- 5% of the pot
- Applied once, when the contest settles: the winners' share is fixed there and claiming only divides it. The entry screen labels the line Claim Fee because claiming is where you meet it — the gap between the gross multiplier and what arrives.
- Capped at 10%
- The contract refuses any setting that would leave players less than 90%. The cap is a constant compiled into it and cannot be raised later, by anyone.
- Nothing on refunds
- Cancelled events and events still unresolved seven days after lock return original stakes without a fee. A valid event result never refunds losing stakes or replaces a winner's payout with a principal-only refund. Price Prediction has its own refund rules for tied, cancelled or unresolved rounds.
- Nothing to enter
- There is no charge to place a bet. You pay network gas to the chain, and that is all.
Claiming
Winnings are never sent to you automatically — you collect them with a transaction. This is deliberate: pushing payments would let one failed transfer block everybody else's.
- There is no deadline. An unclaimed win stays claimable indefinitely.
- Claiming costs gas, so it is worth collecting several wins in one go.
- Claiming is not gated by anything the operator controls — not even by the pause switch. Reaching your own money must never depend on somebody else being available.
Claim and refund rights do not expire, but payment requires enough balance in the contract. Event seeds are not separately reserved. If the shared balance is insufficient, the transfer reverts and the operator must add funds before it can be paid.
