# PREDICT ($PREDICT) — Backable raise

> Machine-readable companion to https://permissionless.metadao.fi/raises/E4qjZxcFtC2dHmyq9GBZU1UeRQLbVVKkdNadjyCoSsyn
> Deal terms and escrow figures come from onchain and API records. The pitch
> is the founder's own frozen text — Backable is permissionless and nobody
> reviewed it. Listing is not endorsement.

The open-source prediction-market AMM engine, live on Solana.
A new Spark idea: the engine exists, the apps don't. Builders compete for the treasury, a decision market picks the winner.

## Status

- state: OVERSUBSCRIBED
- goal (hard cap on what the company receives): $10,000
- committed: $163,023 across 52 backers
- demand: 16.3x the goal
- raised (received by the company): $10,000
- claimable back by backers: $153,023
- split of raised: $8,000 treasury · $2,000 liquidity

## The deal

- token price at goal (everyone pays this): $0.001
- MCAP at open (team and existing-investor tokens excluded): $12,900
- FDV (all tokens, locked included): $12,900
- total supply (fixed; minting needs a market-approved proposal): 12,900,001
- supply split: backers 10,000,000 (77.5%) · liquidity 2,900,000 (22.5%) · team 1 (0.0%)
- share of supply sold to backers: 77.5%
- team lock before any unlock: 18 months
- unlock ladder (3-month TWAP must hold each price): 2x → $0.002 · 4x → $0.004 · 8x → $0.008 · 16x → $0.016 · 32x → $0.032
- monthly budget after funding (onchain ceiling): $1
- at close (escrow releases): $8,000 to treasury (80.0%) · $2,000 seeds liquidity
- runway at that budget: ~8000.0 months

## Protections (identical for every raise)

- Approved aligned parties are selected per raise. The raise page lists selected
  wallets at $0 until they commit, then updates their gross commitments before refunds.
- Commitments sit in escrow; the team receives $0 unless the goal is met.
- Goal missed → every backer can claim 100% of principal. The claim is a
  transaction the backer sends themselves; nothing arrives automatically,
  nobody can refuse it, and there is no deadline.
- Oversubscribed → the goal is split pro rata by weight: time in escrow ×
  early-fill boost × Ownership Score multiplier (none = no extra weight, log
  scale to a fixed cap, read from the committing wallet at close; linked
  wallets do not combine). Nobody is approved for more than they
  committed; the rest is claimable the same way.
- After funding, spending above the published monthly budget requires a
  proposal decided by decision markets, not by the team.
- Tokens are not equity and may be worth nothing.

## What the token is, and is not

Both halves matter, and reading either alone gives the wrong answer.

**It is not** a security, equity, loan or ownership interest. Holders
have no legal title to any asset, no claim on revenue, no fiduciary duty
owed to them, and no ownership of the Cayman segregated portfolio that
holds the company's IP. There is no promise of return, buyback or
future utility.

**It is** a governance claim in a decision market. The treasury is
governed by that market rather than by the team, spending above the
published monthly budget has to pass it, and the segregated portfolio is
contractually required to abide by certain of its determinations. The
market can also stop funding the company and direct the money elsewhere.

So "the DAO controls X" and "holders own nothing" are both accurate: the
first is control through the mechanism, the second is legal title.

**The mechanism is the top of the stack.** The constraints above are the
structure's current settings, not its ceiling — the operating documents
are themselves subject to the decision market, within the scope those
documents define. This is the point most readers miss, and it cuts in
both directions, which is why it is not a reassurance:

- The market can authorise things nobody promised at the raise.
- The market can also withdraw things a backer assumed. It "may revoke
  funds out of the pool at any time, or may cease using the funds for the
  currently contemplated project" (fundraise terms, paragraph 5).
- Governance power is not legal effect. The market deciding to do a thing
  does not by itself make that thing lawful or effective; anything with
  its own regulatory path still has to travel it.

The correct reading is therefore not "the page and the terms contradict
each other" but "nothing here is fixed except the escrow and the claim."
Score the raise on that basis. A page describing what the mechanism could
authorise is not making a promise; a page claiming holders *own* an asset
outright is overstating it, and that is still worth flagging.

## Diligence signals

- disclosure score (mechanical — counts what the founder chose to show, not idea quality): 2/7 — missing: six required answers, market size cites a source, a metric with a date, a founder-stated risk, a named, linked team member, demo, docs or code linked
- B1 transparency filing: not filed (predates the requirement)
- concentration: top wallet GjAZ6EpdBTA1mxoBY6zyHvcXXU2zjAxwK1GysgDSt1xX holds 18.4% of committed capital across 52 backers
- vetting: none — anyone can publish a raise for $15; do your own research
- investors on record before this raise: none

## Founder claims (unverified — absence is itself a disclosure)

- edge, in the founder's words: not provided
- founder commitment (self-stated): not stated — that silence is an answer
- founder-stated TAM: not provided
- metrics: none provided

## Links (founder-provided — verify control yourself)

- website: https://predict-pm-amm.dev/
- x: https://x.com/Predict_PM_AMM
- telegram: https://t.me/sparkdotfun/4496

## Onchain

- raise: E4qjZxcFtC2dHmyq9GBZU1UeRQLbVVKkdNadjyCoSsyn (v0.7)
- token mint: 5FtV5gisCyCqJHsiCne4pX2r6d2YPRF9Kcfx2DKvmeta
- quote mint: EPjFWdd5AufqSSqeM2qN1xzybapC8G4wEGGkZwyTDt1v
- base vault: PrPq2qrKdZqBXUH9WmqWcEbRhzRf11LCgAuuMqhpbt9
- quote vault: HAgg4xgPhd5eq4Qzmrp6GhPisxB11ZLdsv7ZV1nZeKUH
- authority: LRrTQLqFzAPxjschuAKQAqH1XHBuBgHqwhybENStARt

## Founder's pitch (verbatim, frozen at publish, unreviewed)

## The idea

Predict is an open-source implementation of **Paradigm's pm-AMM** on Solana: an automated market maker designed specifically for prediction markets.

Most prediction-market volume today runs on order books, because generic AMMs are a poor fit for outcome tokens. In November 2024, Moallemi and Robinson at Paradigm derived the AMM that fixes this: liquidity providers lose value at a uniform rate, whatever the price, and whatever the time left before the market closes.

- Paper: [paradigm.xyz/writing/pm-amm](https://www.paradigm.xyz/writing/pm-amm)
- Site: [predict-pm-amm.dev](https://predict-pm-amm.dev)
- Code: [github.com/sparkfun-labs/pm-amm](https://github.com/sparkfun-labs/pm-amm)

## A Spark idea, phase two

[Spark](https://justspark.fun/) launches ideas. Predict was one of them, and its code was built during a previous Spark hackathon.

Now Predict moves to its second phase, and it works differently from other Spark ideas: the base already exists. We're looking for people to build apps on top of it.

**Already built, live on mainnet, MIT license:**

- One Solana program, 26 instructions, USDC as collateral
- Binary YES/NO markets, starting at 50% or at any price from 1% to 99%, and commitment vaults that crowdfund a market's liquidity
- A TypeScript SDK on npm (`@pm-amm/sdk`), a full API reference, and a `CLAUDE.md` + `llms.txt` so a coding agent can build on it in one session
- 266 tests, and an on-chain solvency check on every swap

### The commitment vault: liquidity from minute one

A new prediction market usually dies empty: nobody trades because there is no liquidity, and nobody provides liquidity because nobody trades. The commitment vault removes that problem.

1. **Anyone opens a vault** on a question, with a commit window and a minimum total.
2. **People commit USDC on YES or NO.** The YES/NO split sets the market's **starting odds**: the crowd agrees on the price before trading starts. Committing is not a bet: it funds the market.
3. **Once the minimum is reached, anyone can launch the market.** The whole pot is deposited as liquidity, fully collateralized.
4. **Every committer becomes a liquidity provider**
5. **If the minimum is never reached,** everyone gets refunded 1:1.

The result: a market that opens with real depth and fair starting odds, set by the people who care about the question.

**What's missing is everything on top of it.** Apps, front ends, communities, markets people actually want to trade. That's what this raise funds.

## What you could build

**The idea the Spark team most wants to see: prediction markets inside X.**

Someone posts a take. Someone replies *"bet?"* and tags a bot. The bot opens a market on the question, starting at the odds the two sides agree on (the contract lets you set any starting price from 1% to 99%), and seeds it with liquidity. Everyone in the thread then buys their side, $10 each, and anyone else can trade it until it resolves. Every argument on X becomes a market.

Other directions, as starting points, not requirements:

- **Markets between friends.** The same mechanic in a Telegram group.
- **Live sports.** The pm-AMM works best on markets that behave like a running score (basketball, esports), exactly the case the paper was designed for.
- **Infrastructure.** A resolution oracle or a dispute window.

## Where the fees go

Every swap pays a 2% fee, split 50% to the market creator and 50% to the protocol. The infrastructure will be updated so that the protocol's 50% flows to the **Predict DAO treasury**.

## Why now

Solana is running **Perps and Prediction Markets**: $100K in prizes and one week to build perpetuals and prediction markets on Solana. Submissions close **October 2**.

- [hackathons.solana.com/hackathons/perps-and-prediction-markets](https://hackathons.solana.com/hackathons/perps-and-prediction-markets)

Build on Predict for that hackathon, and pitch the same build here for the Predict treasury. The two don't conflict.

And it doesn't stop at this treasury: teams that build interesting apps on Predict can be funded as **independent projects on Futard.io**, with their own raise and their own treasury.

## Some tips from the Spark team

- **Don't rebuild the AMM.** It's done. Start from the SDK and ship a product.
- **Open the repo with Claude or Codex** and point it at `CLAUDE.md`. You can have a working market on devnet in one session (mock USDC faucet included).
- **Start small.** One market, one use case, end to end.
- **Solve resolution honestly.** Today the resolution authority picks the winner. Tell users who resolves your markets and how.
- **Keep it open source.** Contributors with a merged pull request are listed as authors on predict-pm-amm.dev.

## There is no team yet

That's the point. The engine has contributors. It doesn't have a team taking it to users.

100% of the funds are locked in a multisig. Not a single dollar unlocks without a decision market approving it. That's also why the monthly spending allowance is 0 and there is no team allocation.

## Use of Funds

**$10,000 raise. $8,000 hits the treasury** after the 20% LP allocation.

There is no budget breakdown, because there is no team to spend it. The winning proposal writes the budget, and the decision market approves or rejects it. Until then, everything sits untouched in the multisig.

## Are you the builder who can take Predict to users?

Take the lead, or ship one piece of it: an app, a front end, a resolution layer, the distribution.

Come with your own terms. Tell the market what you'd build and what you want for it ($USDC? $PREDICT? Both? Investment in your own raiseon futard.io ?), then see what the market thinks. No jury, no application form, no warm intro needed.

**Keep in mind:**

- **Distribution is the hard part.** The math is solved. A prediction market lives or dies on whether people show up to trade it.
- **Trust is part of the product.** UX, Resolution, upgrade authority and audits are open problems (listed on the site). The team that addresses them earns the users.

## How to apply / Timeline

The Spark team can open a decision market. If you want to build, ship or get involved, reach out to **@mathis_btc** on Telegram, or ping him in the Spark Telegram, PREDICT channel: [t.me/sparkdotfun/4496](https://t.me/sparkdotfun/4496).

**Minimum lifetime: 1 week.** If nobody has stepped up after the first week, the Spark team can submit a proposal to liquidate the treasury at any point from then on. Every token holder can then claim the treasury back. Timing is open to discussion in the Telegram, especially if people are actively working on it.

## Spark's first two proposals

Spark takes no allowance and no team allocation. Our business model runs through liquidity.

**Proposal 1: initialization (within minutes of launch).** As soon as $PREDICT is live, Spark submits a first proposal to:

1. **Redeploy the LP.** Withdraw the LP position deployed on Meteora (900,000 $PREDICT) and redeploy it in a Meteora AMM with a 2.5% trading fee. Split the fees 50/50.** Half goes to the Predict DAO treasury, half to Spark.
2. **Shorten decision markets from 72h to 24h**, so the DAO can move at builder speed.
3. **Mint 2,000,000 $PREDICT (about 15% of the current 12.9M supply) and sell them through limit orders** laddered from $0.001 (the ICO price) to $0.10 per token. The tokens only sell as the price rises, adding sell-side liquidity on the way up. **80% of the proceeds go to the Predict DAO treasury**, so the DAO funds itself from its own price rising, with no OTC deal. **20% go to Spark** for managing the operation.

**Proposal 2: sponsor the Solana hackathon.** Once the first one passes, Spark submits a second proposal to put up a **$1,000 Predict bounty** on Perps and Prediction Markets, for the best project built on the pm-AMM.

**After that, the floor is open.** From the third proposal on, any builder or holder can submit theirs.

It all goes through the decision market like everything else. If the market says no, it doesn't happen.

## What this is

An experiment run by Spark, and a new iteration of it. [x.com/Predict_PM_AMM](https://x.com/Predict_PM_AMM) · [x.com/JustSparkIdeas](https://x.com/JustSparkIdeas) · [justspark.fun](https://justspark.fun/)

Until now, Spark funded ideas before any code existed. Predict tests the next step: **fund an open-source engine that already works, and let the market pick who builds on it.**

1. **Fund the engine.** Backers buy $PREDICT at the same price. No insiders, no pre-sale.
2. **Builders compete.** Teams build on the pm-AMM and pitch for the funding.
3. **The market decides.** A decision market (futarchy), not a jury, picks the winning team. Backers own the winner, or get a full refund if there is no winner.

More detail: [justspark.fun/explanation](https://justspark.fun/explanation)

## Disclaimer

Predict is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or supported by Paradigm, MetaDAO, futard.io or the Solana Foundation. None of them is involved in this project, its funding or its execution. The pm-AMM paper by Moallemi and Robinson (Paradigm) is credited as the mechanism this code implements, nothing more. futard.io is the launch infrastructure used here, and Perps and Prediction Markets is a public hackathon open to anyone. Nothing on this page is an endorsement from any of them, and nothing here is financial advice.

The contract on mainnet is a trust-based proof of concept: centralized resolution, a single-key upgrade authority, and no third-party audit. See [predict-pm-amm.dev](https://predict-pm-amm.dev) (§7 Limitations).

## Raise terms (verbatim, as printed on the raise page)

The founder publishes the terms of this raise at https://justspark.fun/legal

## Company decisions

- https://permissionless.metadao.fi/raises/E4qjZxcFtC2dHmyq9GBZU1UeRQLbVVKkdNadjyCoSsyn#decisions — recent decision markets
- https://permissionless.metadao.fi/decisions/E4qjZxcFtC2dHmyq9GBZU1UeRQLbVVKkdNadjyCoSsyn — company decision history
- https://permissionless.metadao.fi/decisions/E4qjZxcFtC2dHmyq9GBZU1UeRQLbVVKkdNadjyCoSsyn/create — create a proposal

Company decision URLs accept the launch address or organization slug. Market pages accept the full proposal address or market code at /decision/<key>.

## How the mechanism works

- https://permissionless.metadao.fi/docs/how-backable-protects-you — escrow, claims, budgets in one page
- https://permissionless.metadao.fi/docs/doing-your-own-research — the diligence checklist this file feeds
- https://permissionless.metadao.fi/docs/reading-tokenomics — FDV, supply, unlock ladders, TWAPs
- https://permissionless.metadao.fi/docs/committed-vs-raised — why committed and raised differ
- https://permissionless.metadao.fi/docs/metadao-2 — MetaDAO 2.0: typed proposals and the adaptable performance package
