Betting on Directional Markets!
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Betting on Directional Markets!

Platform: Thales

Thales is a prediction market, allowing you to hedge or bet on price action!
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Directional Markets 101:

In Web3 Fashion, all you need is to connect your wallet!
  • Bet if price of a coin will be above or below the ‘strike price’ at the given expiration date.
  • Buy ‘up tokens’ if betting it will be above
  • Buy ‘ down’ tokens if betting it’ll be below
  • No liquidations, just expiration date.
  • Can take profits or cut losses any time up until expiration date.
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Ranged Markets:

  • Bet if price of a coin will be INSIDE or OUTSIDE of the given range, before the expiration date.
  • Buy “IN” tokens if betting price will be within the given range.
  • Buy “OUT” tokens if betting price will be outside of given range.
  • No liquidations, just expiration date.
  • Can take profits or cut losses any time up until expiration date.
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Step #1: Fund Your Wallet with Stablecoins

Thales has most activity on the OPTIMISM network, so we send funds there.
  • Use HOP or CELER bridge to send stable coin of your choice to Optimism network.
  • Accepted stable coins:
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Step #2: Choose a ‘market’ to bet on

You can filter by coin, STRIKE price = betting if will be above or below this
Time remaining = time until this market ends, winners win, losers lose
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Step #3: Buy the bet

  1. Choose the stablecoin you hold
  2. Choose ‘UP’ or ‘DOWN’ tokens
  3. Select how much you want to buy
  4. Analyze the potential profit
  5. APPROVE transaction
  6. BUY transaction.
  7. You can now see all open positions when you click on your wallet label in the top right corner of the website.
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Step #4: Wait and find out!

Click the top right corner on the website (where your wallet address shows) to see your open positions and how they’re performing.
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