Platform Fees
BigMarket is designed to make prediction markets sustainable — not extractive. Our fee model is simple, transparent, and built to reward creators while ensuring the DAO and platform can thrive long term.
1. Platform (Operations) Fee
A 1% operations fee is applied to all stakes made within a market. This covers platform infrastructure costs such as servers, indexing, and maintenance.
The fee is collected in the native token of each market (e.g. STX, sBTC, or BIG).
For reputation-only markets (where no real token changes hands), this fee is effectively symbolic.
This small operations fee helps sustain the core protocol and ensures BigMarket remains a neutral, self-funding public good.
2. DAO-Aligned Market Liquidity
Instead of the DAO charging an additional “treasury fee,” BigMarket introduces a more elegant mechanism:
When a market creator launches a new market, they provide the initial liquidity.
The minimum liquidity is determined by the DAO and displayed on the market create page. This liquidity is automatically staked by the DAO across all outcomes equally, creating a balanced starting market.
This means:
The DAO treasury holds equal stakes in every possible outcome.
The DAO earns naturally, whichever way the market resolves.
The market creator’s initial liquidity is never lost — it’s recycled via the DAO’s treasury.
In short:
🏛️ “The house (DAO) always wins” — not by taking from users, but by being part of every market.
This model keeps the system self-sustaining, fair, and aligned with long-term community growth.
3. Creator Fee (0–10%)
Each market creator can set a creator fee between 0% and 10% when launching a market.
This fee is deducted from the winning side’s total payouts once the market resolves.
Example: If you set a 5% fee and 10,000 STX are paid out to winners, you earn 500 STX.
Your creator fee is paid automatically when the market concludes successfully.
This reward compensates you for curating, promoting, and maintaining the market.
Creators who design engaging, active markets not only earn more — they also help grow the DAO’s influence and reputation.
4. Blockchain Gas Fees
All transactions on BigMarket are executed on the Stacks blockchain and require small network gas fees (in STX). These are paid directly to miners/validators — not to BigMarket or the DAO.
Gas fees apply when:
Creating a new market
Placing or withdrawing a stake
Claiming rewards or resolving outcomes
These are minimal, and we continuously optimize contracts to keep them low.
Why This Model Works
BigMarket’s fee structure is designed to:
Keep barriers low for creators and traders
Align DAO growth with market activity
Encourage community-driven liquidity, not extractive fees
Maintain sustainability through modest, automated operations funding
This model makes BigMarket one of the first prediction platforms where creator success and DAO health are the same thing.
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