Futuur

What it is

Futuur runs every question twice. The same market exists in Ooms — a play-money currency, symbol ø, of which every account gets 10,000 and which cannot be bought, sold, deposited, withdrawn or converted into anything — and in real money, currently USDC and USDT. The two are independent markets with independent prices, which the venue points out is an arbitrage signal for anyone who can see both. All real-money currencies share a single liquidity pool per market, so a USDC position and a USDT position move the same prices, and a payout is fixed in the currency it was taken in.

Pricing is a hybrid. Where the order book has resting orders, you trade against them; where it is empty, an LS-LMSR market maker — a liquidity-sensitive logarithmic scoring rule — quotes both sides, so a price exists for any outcome at any time. Being liquidity-sensitive means slippage falls as a market gets busier, and it also means the price you pay rises as your own order grows. Limit orders are available for traders who would rather name a price than accept the curve's.

The listing is broad for a venue this size: elections and politics across several countries (Brazil is unusually well covered), interest-rate and inflation prints, crypto and commodity price levels, company IPOs, film and television, and sports. Multi-outcome markets are common, and each outcome behaves as its own YES/NO market inside the group.

Availability

The operator is Futuur Anjouan Ltd., registered at Mutsamudu on the Autonomous Island of Anjouan, Union of the Comoros, and licensed there under Licence No. ALSI-202410061-FI2 — an online gaming licence, not a securities or derivatives authorisation.

This is the one card in the category where the answer to "can I use it" has two halves:

• Play money is open worldwide. Futuur states that anyone anywhere may take part in the Ooms markets.
• Real money is not. Citing its licence, Futuur bars residents of a long list from depositing or trading with real money. It includes the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and Japan, much of western Europe — Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Slovakia — plus Malta, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, and the usual sanctioned territories.

That list is longer and blunter than most on-chain venues', and it rules out most of the catalogue's likely readership for the half of Futuur that pays out. The card's us_persons flag is false because it describes the money side; a US reader can still forecast here for reputation.

KYC is threshold-based rather than up-front. Futuur states it will require proof of identity and address once cumulative lifetime deposits pass the equivalent of 2,000 USD, and reserves the right to ask sooner. The terms attach no threshold at all to the other direction: they reserve additional verification "for any withdrawal", at any level.

Pricing

There is no subscription, and the play-money side costs nothing at all.

Taker fee. One formula on every market: fee = 0.05 × contracts × price × (1 − price), paid in the currency of the market — USDC or USDT on the real-money side, Ooms on the other. In absolute terms it peaks at the 50-cent midpoint; as a share of what you actually hand over it does the opposite, because the stake shrinks faster than the fee does:

Maker rebate. Fees apply only when you take an existing order out of the book. A maker pays nothing, and 80% of the taker's fee goes back to the maker — as a discount on the buy side, or a balance credit on the sell side.

Everything else. The minimum real-money position is 1 USD; there is no minimum in Ooms. The maximum is set per market and rises with liquidity. Deposits are free, with a floor of 0.01 EUR equivalent to keep out spam. Withdrawals carry a per-currency minimum and a network fee, are reviewed manually — Futuur says generally within 24 hours — and have to be confirmed from an email link within 48 hours.

Markets & resolution

Every market publishes its resolution criteria and its resolution source before trading opens: an electoral authority, a sports league, a government agency or a named outlet. When the event lands, Futuur's editorial team checks that source and settles the market; winning shares pay 1.00 in the market's currency and the rest pay zero. Some markets are resolved automatically, the rest by hand, and the venue is candid that manual resolution can lag over a weekend.

Two dates on every market do different jobs and are easy to confuse. The one Futuur's interface labels the end date is when trading stops; the resolution date is when payouts go out, and it can be much later — an election that takes days to certify, an economic release that slips a week. Futuur reserves the right to move the close date when the underlying event moves.

A market that cannot be resolved fairly — the event does not happen, is postponed indefinitely, or the question turns out ambiguous against its own source — is cancelled, positions are unwound and stakes are returned. There is no dispute process, no juror vote and no appeal: the editorial team decides, and the market's comment thread is where clarifications get posted.

Integrations

There is a public REST API at api.futuur.com/api/v1/. Read endpoints answer unauthenticated — markets, categories, prices in both currencies, per-market liquidity and volume split between play and real money — which makes it one of the easier venues to pull prices from without an account. Trading endpoints exist and refuse an unauthenticated request; access is granted on application. No public WebSocket stream, no official SDK and no MCP server is advertised.

Limitations

• Real money is unavailable to most of the English-speaking world — the US, UK, Canada and Australia are all on the exclusion list, as are Japan, Germany, France and Italy.
• The Anjouan licence is a gaming licence from a jurisdiction with no relationship to the regulator your own state or country recognises. What it protects you against, in practice, is not something this card can tell you.
• Resolution is entirely editorial. No oracle, no dispute mechanism, no appeal.
• The taker fee bites hardest on longshots — 4.5% of the stake at 10 cents — which is where a multi-outcome market's tail sits.
• Play-money prices are not the real-money prices. Two markets, two books, two answers; a screenshot from one says nothing about the other.
• A deposit has to be traded through before it can come back out. The terms state that a deposit must be staked at least once before a withdrawal can be made, and that Futuur may refuse a withdrawal where the amount traded is less than the last deposit. Depositing and changing your mind is not one of the available moves.
• Nobody here has deposited. Everything above comes from Futuur's own help centre and its public API on 19 September 2026.