Call the next move · Know your maximum loss
Ticker Tape
Leverage on YES/NO, without liquidation
Goats
THIS IS A PRODUCT PAPER, NOT AN OFFER OF SECURITIES OR INVESTMENT ADVICE. PLANNED FEATURES MAY CHANGE AFTER TECHNICAL, SECURITY, MARKET, AND LEGAL REVIEW. NO NFT IS PROMISED TO GAIN VALUE.
Leverage without a liquidation engine#
Prediction markets did $63.5 billion in 2025. Weekly volume now sits above $6 billion. The flow is real. The gear is not: almost every dollar of exposure is still a dollar of cash.
That is how binaries work, not a missing feature. A YES/NO contract can trade sixty cents and then expire worthless. There is no slide for a liquidation bot to catch. The market does not weaken by degrees. It prints an outcome. So the book stays at 1x.
Ticker Tape underwrites the pool instead of each ticket. Two endings exist: YES and NO. If the pool can pay the whole book in both, the position can sit until settlement. No watchers. No forced close. Depth is what unlocks 100x. The most a trader can lose is the margin posted on the way in.
Why size matters#
YES and NO still add up to a dollar, so the YES price is just the implied odds. A two-cent miss pays two cents. Fully funded, that is a rounding error, not a trade. People who already know better leave the tape wrong.
Gear the same view up to 100x and the miss is worth hitting. The chart moves because someone can size the correction. Today's prediction volume was built as a fully funded bet. Extra size is how that volume starts to reflect what traders actually believe.
You pay for the gear with clock time. Every live position streams funding to the pool. At 100x the meter can run out in days; at 5x it can run for months. That meter stands in for a liquidation bot, and it does not need a mark price while you are in the trade. Flatten, add margin, or wait for the settlement print. A red candle is not a forced auction.
The USDG pool#
Depositors post USDG and sit out the question. No side, no market picking, no hedge book. They are not fading traders. They rent out the balance sheet that lets those traders size up, and the rent is the funding tape: every live position pays, more when the book is full.
A trader exiting cannot take that floor with them. The settlement rules forbid it.
Because the job is idle and not a directional bet, the money can come from USDG vaults, treasury cash, and people who want a stablecoin return. No quotes. No inventory. The liquidity is meant to be dull, which is how it grows.
Street Goats holders are not liquidity providers by default. Holder distributions, if any, come from disclosed protocol fees—not user collateral, house reserves, or LP principal.
Settlement#
Balances, the pool floor, and terminal payouts belong in a small on-chain contract. Matching, routing, and finding a market can live off-chain so the terminal stays fast.
A two-outcome book can be checked before a leveraged ticket is accepted: would both endings still pay? Offsetting YES and NO recycle the same dollars, so the reserve can back more size without sending anyone to a liquidation queue.
The same split can ship per chain. Each chain keeps its own reserve.
What exists now#
The MVP already works. Players can open short-window Up or Down positions through a familiar prediction-market flow, close to Polymarket's five-minute BTC markets.
Choose a market and duration, call the direction, set the size, and follow the result on a live chart. Leverage amplifies the call. Maximum loss stays limited to the margin committed at entry. A player can exit before expiry or let the position settle.
This release proves the loop. The next stage is deeper liquidity, longer horizons, more markets, and positions that stay open without liquidation.
Where it goes#
Ticker Tape's next stage keeps the binary question and adds time. A position can stay open while the market is live, paying the pool for the capital it uses, then settle when YES or NO prints.
The chart is the trading canvas. Price markets show the underlying path and entry strike. Event markets show the implied-probability path. Open interest, pool depth, funding, maximum loss, and settlement status stay on the tape.
Expand the terminal#
Markets grow from equities into cryptoassets, indices, commodities, and real-world YES/NO questions. A tiny miss on the odds is not a trade when you are fully funded. With extra size, the same view is large enough to put on the chart, so news gets into the price sooner.
Street Goats#
Street Goats is the founding NFT collection around Ticker Tape.
Subject to the final mint terms, intended utility may include:
- A defined share of protocol revenue under the published distribution terms.
- A verifiable founding-member badge and optional in-product profile identity.
- Early test access, feedback sessions, community calls, and contributor recognition.
- Cosmetic chart, profile, and achievement customizations with no effect on execution or payouts.
- Advisory signaling on market categories, product priorities, and community initiatives.
A Street Goat is not company equity, debt, a claim on user collateral, or a promise of a fungible token or airdrop. Its planned revenue share is limited to the formula published in the final terms; it is not guaranteed yield, price support, or guaranteed resale value.
The raise#
The Street Goats primary mint is intended to fund Ticker Tape development. Proceeds go to a publicly disclosed project treasury. Below: the proposed offering, use of proceeds, and the split between project funds and protocol funds.
Founding offering#
The figures below are a proposed planning model, not final sale terms.
| Offering term | Proposed amount |
|---|---|
| Total collection | 10,000 NFTs |
| Public mint | 9,000 NFTs |
| Founder and community reserve | 1,000 NFTs |
| Public mint price | 0.20 SOL |
| Maximum public raise | 1,800 SOL |
| Holder protocol-revenue share | Defined in final mint terms |
Use of proceeds#
| Use of proceeds | Allocation | At full raise |
|---|---|---|
| Security, settlement, and core development | 45% | 810 SOL |
| Marketing and strategic partnerships | 25% | 450 SOL |
| Product design and community | 15% | 270 SOL |
| Legal, compliance, and operations | 10% | 180 SOL |
| Treasury contingency reserve | 5% | 90 SOL |
| Total | 100% | 1,800 SOL |
Actual allocations scale with proceeds received. No allocation silently converts project funds into user collateral or liquidity-provider principal.
Treasury rules#
The separation is absolute: project funds, user collateral, house reserves, and liquidity-provider principal remain separate. Holder distributions come only from the protocol-revenue categories defined in the final terms. Street Goats holders do not automatically become liquidity providers.
Before mint, one definitive brief should publish the chain and contract, supply, price, sale limits, team allocation, treasury controls, use-of-proceeds budget, and complete revenue-sharing formula.