Proposal requirements
Before submitting a proposal, you’ll need:- Iron tier or higher. At least 60,000 vaulted AURA. See [Tier Structure](/tokens/tier-structure) and [Staking & Vaulting AURA](/tokens/staking).
- A small ALPH deposit, around 0.5 ALPH per market. This is refundable storage rent rather than a fee: Alephium charges it to hold your proposal’s on-chain records, and it comes back as those records are freed. The portion reserved for the market contract itself is refunded if your proposal is rejected, or funds the new market’s storage if it’s approved. Aura converts the ALPH from your USD balance, so you never source it yourself.
Market creation flow
1
Open the proposal form
Click Propose Market at the top right of the Aura site.
2
Fill in the details
- Question. Clearly state the prediction event or outcome.
- Category. Pick a top-level category so users can find your market.
- Resolution rules. Describe exactly what conditions resolve the market YES, NO, or to each option.
- Expected resolution date. Displayed to traders as a guide for when the event should be decidable. It is informational only: the contract never reads it, and trading does not stop when it passes. A market keeps trading until an outcome is actually submitted and resolved.
- Sources & images. List authoritative sources voters can use to verify the outcome, and add a relevant image to drive engagement.
3
Submit + sign
Confirm the transaction in your wallet. The deposit is locked into a
proposal contract.
4
Community voting
Your proposal enters a 24-hour community voting window. Stakers
review and vote on each proposal, weighted by their tier.
5
Approval
After voting closes, a curator reviews the most-supported proposals
against current platform capacity (number of active markets, recent
daily volume, and total queued proposals) and approves the ones that
best fit the slate. Approved proposals deploy on-chain immediately;
rejected proposals refund the deposit.
Market limits
To keep the platform high-quality and spam-free, each proposer can have up to 25 proposals outstanding at a time. A slot frees up whenever one of your proposals is finalized (approved or rejected). Sibling markets in a linked bundle don’t count against the cap, and only the bundle’s master proposal does.Linked markets
For events with multiple related outcomes such as election races, league seasons, or playoff brackets, you can submit a linked proposal that bundles up to 100 related markets under one voting decision. If the bundle is approved, all of its child markets deploy together with shared metadata, so the UI can group them into a single “event” page. Large bundles are submitted across several transactions rather than one, because Alephium caps how much script bytecode a single transaction can carry. The form handles the batching for you and shows progress as it goes; you just sign each step. Linked proposals are ideal for:- League winners + division winners + playoff appearances
- Multi-stage tournaments (group stage, knockouts, final)
- Election cycles with primaries, conventions, and the general