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New markets aren’t picked by a team. They start life as proposals on the Launchpad — debates the community wants to see traded. Anyone can propose one, anyone can back the ones they want, and once a proposal gathers enough backing, it goes live on its own. No gatekeepers, no approval queue.

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How it works

Anyone proposes a debate

A proposal is a market-in-waiting — a suggested debate with its outcomes laid out. Anyone can create one. It can’t be traded yet, but it’s open for the community to rally behind.

The community backs the ones it wants

Put money behind a proposal to push it toward its goal. Your backing isn’t a fee and it doesn’t disappear — it goes straight into the future market’s prize pool, the pot winners are paid from once it’s live.

It goes live automatically

The moment a proposal gathers enough backing, it opens for trading on its own — no team review, no gatekeepers. The community decides which debates become markets.

Early backers earn

Back a proposal before it goes live and you earn a share of every trade once it launches — your reward for spotting it early.

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Changed your mind?

You’re never locked in. While a proposal is still gathering backing, you can pull your backing at any time and get it back, minus a small fee. Once the proposal goes live, your backing is in the market for good.
Backing a proposal does two things at once: it helps a debate you care about come to life, and it sets you up to earn from it later. The earlier and bigger your backing, the larger your share of the rewards.

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A worked example

Leah keeps seeing the same argument in her group chat: which studio will sweep this year’s Oscars? No live market exists for it yet — so she creates a proposal on the Launchpad, lays out the contenders as outcomes, and shares it around. Friends who love the debate start backing it. Each person’s backing nudges the proposal toward its goal and quietly fills the future market’s prize pool. Once enough people have backed it, the market opens on its own — no one had to approve it. Leah and the other early backers now earn a slice of every trade made on the live market.

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Want more detail?

Straight into the future market’s prize pool — the pot that winners are paid from once the market is live. It isn’t a fee and it isn’t lost. Until the proposal goes live, you can pull it back if you change your mind.
The community does. There’s no team review and no approval step. Any proposal that gathers enough backing goes live automatically — that’s what makes it open to everyone.
A share of the trading fees the live market earns, for as long as it runs. The more of a proposal you back, the bigger your share. See backer rewards for how that works.

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Keep going

For creators

How to propose a debate that the community actually wants to back.

Backer rewards

How early backers earn a share of a live market’s trading fees.