Introduction

Welcome to DotMarket, the premium 1-minute BTC prediction market. Learn what it is, why it matters, and how you can participate.

Welcome to DotMarket, the fastest, most transparent on-chain prediction market available. DotMarket is designed from the ground up to provide a seamless, premium experience for users who want to predict the short-term price movements of Bitcoin.

What is DotMarket?

DotMarket is a decentralized, non-custodial prediction market where users can predict whether the price of Bitcoin will go UP or DOWN over a rapid 1-minute timeframe. It operates entirely on-chain through smart contracts, ensuring complete transparency, provable fairness, and trustless payouts.

Instead of navigating complex perpetual futures, managing leverage, or worrying about liquidations, DotMarket simplifies the experience. You are purely predicting the direction of the asset.

Zero Liquidation Risk

Unlike margin trading or futures, your maximum risk in a prediction market is simply the amount you use to predict. There are no margin calls, no funding rates, and no forced liquidations.

Trading vs. Predicting

While traditional trading involves buying and holding an asset in the hopes its value increases, prediction markets operate on the probability of an event occurring.

Trading: You buy 1 BTC at $60,000. If it drops to $59,000, you are down $1,000. Your PnL is linearly tied to the price.
Predicting: You predict BTC will go UP over the next minute. If it goes up by even $0.01, you win the entire payout for that pool. If it goes down, you lose the initial prediction amount.

Protocol Philosophy

DotMarket was built with three core pillars in mind:

Extreme Speed: In modern crypto, users want immediate feedback. 1-minute markets provide the highest velocity of engagement possible.
Immaculate UI/UX: The platform is designed to feel like a premium, institutional-grade product, not a disjointed Web3 experiment.
Decentralized Execution: Every prediction, every price update, and every payout is handled entirely by smart contracts and Pyth oracles.

Use Cases

Who is DotMarket for?

1. The Scalper

Traders who watch the tape and read short-term order flow can use DotMarket to execute highly profitable, direction-only trades without managing stop-losses.

2. The Hedger

If you are about to execute a large spot buy that might take minutes to fill, predicting DOWN on DotMarket can offset potential short-term volatility while you accumulate.

3. The Enthusiast

Crypto moves fast. DotMarket provides an engaging, fast-paced way to participate in the market's pulse without needing a deep understanding of technical analysis.

Frequently Asked Questions

Yes. DotMarket never holds your funds. All funds are held in transparent smart contracts, and payouts are automatically distributed or claimable directly to your Web3 wallet.

If the settlement price is exactly equal to the entry price (down to the 8th decimal), the market resolves as a tie. All predictions are refunded and can be claimed back by the users.

DotMarket is currently deployed on the Arc Testnet, providing extremely fast block times and low transaction fees to support high-frequency 1-minute rounds.

Next Steps

Ready to dive in? Move on to the Platform Overview to familiarize yourself with the DotMarket interface.