How we keep markets honest

What gets watched

Every order — placed, modified, or cancelled — leaves an audit trail. Background jobs scan that trail for the patterns that usually mean somebody is gaming the system rather than forecasting it:

• Repeated trades against your own positions across linked accounts (wash trading).
• Sudden bursts of volume that disappear as soon as a price moves.
• Coordinated pushes from groups of accounts that signed up around the same time.
• Stale orders sitting at suspicious price levels designed to trick other traders.

Anything the scanner can't explain on its own is queued for a moderator to look at by hand. We'd rather waste a few human minutes than let a manipulator quietly succeed.

Trading on inside knowledge isn't trading

If you know how a market resolves before the rest of the world does — because you work there, you sit in the meeting, or someone told you — please sit it out. Trades placed with that kind of information will be reversed when we detect them, and the account flagged.

• Employees of a company before a results, earnings, or product announcement.
• Anyone with early access to government data releases or election counts.
• Officials, referees, or others with the power to influence a sporting outcome.
• Holders of confidential settlement information of any kind.

How a market is decided

Each market spells out a primary source that resolves it — an official scoreboard, a government index, a price feed, or a wire report. If that source goes dark or the question turns out to be ambiguous, the market is voided and stakes refunded. We don't improvise resolutions.

One person, one account

Signup-bonus farming, ban evasion, and pushing prices through multiple identities are all out. We look at IP, device fingerprint, and behavioural signals to spot duplicates. Confirmed offenders lose their bonus balance and risk a platform-wide ban. Full rules in the terms of service.