# Futuur

Play-money and real-money markets side by side, priced by an LS-LMSR market maker.

*https://predictionmarkets.tools/tools/futuur · Prediction Market Venues*

## Facts

### At a glance

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Vendor | Futuur |
| Category | Prediction Market Venues |
| Job | event_trading |
| Website | https://futuur.com |
| Pricing model | commission |
| Free tier | true |
| Open source | false |
| Licence | none |
| Self-hosted | false |
| Tested hands-on | false |
| Last updated | 2026-09-21 |

### Availability

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Jurisdictions | global |
| Open to US persons | false |
| KYC required | false |

### Markets

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Subjects | politics, sports, macro, crypto, science, culture, business |
| Settlement | crypto |
| Resolved by | Futuur's editorial team resolves each market against the public source named in its rules — an electoral authority, a league, an agency or a named outlet — and voids markets that cannot be resolved fairly. |

### Economics

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Taker fee | 1.25 |
| Maker fee | 0 |
| Liquidity model | amm |
| Platforms | web |
| AI features | none |

### Interfaces

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| API | true |
| WebSocket | false |
| Scripting | none |
| Python | false |
| MCP server | false |
| Export | api |

### Capabilities

Yes: charting, order_book, automation, live_trading, paper_trading, portfolio_tracking

No: screening, backtesting, calibration_scoring, cross_venue, alerts, news, tax_reporting

*Verified: pricing 2026-09-19; availability 2026-09-19.*

## 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withdrawn or converted into anything — and in **real money**, currently USDC and USDT.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:

| Price | Fee on 100 contracts | Cost of the 100 contracts | Fee as % of cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0.90 | 0.45 | 90.00 | 0.5% |
| 0.50 | 1.25 | 50.00 | 2.5% |
| 0.10 | 0.45 | 10.00 | 4.5% |

**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.

## FAQ

### Can someone in the United States use Futuur?

Only with play money. The help centre states that Futuur is free to use anywhere in the world for play-money markets in Ooms, and that the United States is on the list of countries whose residents may not deposit or trade with real money. The same list includes the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, Japan, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland and Singapore.

### What is the difference between Ooms and real money on Futuur?

Ooms are the play-money currency — everyone starts with 10,000 of them, and they cannot be bought, sold, deposited, withdrawn or converted. Real-money markets take USDC or USDT. The two run as separate markets on the same question, so their prices differ, and Futuur's own research puts the real-money side at a measurably better Brier score.

### What does a trade cost on Futuur?

A taker pays 0.05 × contracts × price × (1 − price). On 100 contracts at 50 cents that is 1.25 against a 50.00 cost, or 2.5%; at 10 cents it is 0.45 against a 10.00 cost, or 4.5%. Makers pay nothing and receive 80% of the taker fee back as a rebate.

### Does Futuur require KYC?

Not to start. Futuur states that it requires proof of identity and address once cumulative lifetime deposits pass the equivalent of 2,000 USD, and that it reserves the right to ask at any time before that. Withdrawals have a threshold of their own, symmetrical with the deposit one — the help centre names cumulative lifetime withdrawals above the equivalent of 2,000 USD as the point where it reserves the right to require verification — and the terms additionally reserve extra verification for any withdrawal at any level. Help centre re-read 21 September 2026.

## Also from Futuur

- [Futuur API](https://predictionmarkets.tools/tools/futuur-api.md)

## Background

- [How money gets back out](https://predictionmarkets.tools/guides/how-money-gets-out.md) — The rail that funded an account is usually not the rail that empties it. Same-source rules, clearing holds, jurisdiction locks, and what a bridge takes.
- [What you have to prove about yourself to trade](https://predictionmarkets.tools/guides/what-you-have-to-prove-to-trade.md) — A connected wallet is not an identity check. Which venues ask for what, at which step of the way in, and what you give up on the ones that never ask.
- [Where the liquidity comes from, and who is on the other side](https://predictionmarkets.tools/guides/where-liquidity-comes-from.md) — Order book, automated market maker or pool — what each means for the price you get, and why the number on a thin market is not a probability.

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