What you earn
Between 1% and 30% of the 2.5% trading fee, scaling with tier:
Paid in USDT. The remainder flows to the treasury, which funds liquidity
rewards, dispute incentives, referral payouts, and development.
Your cut is the lower of your tier when you proposed the market and your tier
now. Staking more after the fact does not retroactively raise your take, and
unstaking below your propose-time tier does lower it. See
Tier structure.
How it gets paid
Fees accrue inside the market contract on every fill and sit there until the market resolves. Once it resolves yes or no, your share is sent to your wallet automatically. There is nothing to claim, no button to press, and no deadline to miss. The payout destination is the creator address recorded on the market at proposal time and it cannot be changed afterwards, which is also why it cannot be redirected by anyone else.Making this worth doing
Your earnings are a percentage of volume, so the whole game is attracting volume.1
Stake before you propose, not after
Your cut is fixed at propose time by your tier. Proposing at Iron and
staking to Degenerate the next day leaves you on 1% for that market forever.
2
Write rules that cannot be argued with
Ambiguous resolution criteria are the main reason markets end up disputed,
and a disputed market pays 10% of its fees to voters instead of building your
reputation. Name the exact source and the exact condition. See
Creating markets.
3
Pick questions with a natural audience
Volume follows interest. A market about something nobody is arguing about
will not trade, no matter how cleanly it is written.
4
Give it enough time to trade
A market that resolves in two days has two days to accumulate volume. Longer
horizons generally accrue more, as long as the question stays interesting.
5
Seed your own liquidity
A market with an empty book does not attract traders. Quoting it yourself
also earns liquidity rewards, so the two
programs compound.
Costs and limits
Proposing is not the same as creating. Your proposal has to pass a
governance vote before it becomes a market, and
only accepted proposals earn anything.
Next
Creating markets
The mechanics of writing and submitting a proposal.
Tier structure
What each tier costs and what it unlocks.
Binary market best practices
How to write a yes-or-no question that resolves cleanly.
Liquidity rewards
Earn again by quoting your own market.