# Become a Market Owner Market Owners (MOs) are the users who **create the Community pillar's markets**. Anyone can become an MO. The platform reviews each market for clarity, and MOs share in the fees their markets generate. ## Why become an MO * **Earn from your knowledge.** You know a niche better than we do — local sports, esports, an industry, a public competition. Stand up a market about it and earn a share of every trade. * **Build your community.** Markets you create show your name as the MO. Predictors who follow your taste come back for your next market. * **Resolve the markets you care about.** Manual resolution means *you* decide when the outcome is in, based on the public source you set up front. ## How it works 1. Reach **Market Owner status** (see below). 2. Open the Mini App → Create → pick a template or start from scratch. 3. Fill in the question, the outcomes, the resolution rule, and the resolution source. 4. Pay the creation fee (see [Fees & payouts](/reference/fees.md)). 5. AI clarity review runs — usually seconds. 6. If approved, your market goes live. If flagged, you see why and can edit. 7. Predictors trade your market. You earn a share of every trade. 8. When the event resolves, you log in and mark the outcome. The platform verifies against your stated source, then pays out. ## Becoming a Market Owner Three paths: ### 1. **Verified application** The fastest route during the FIFA World Cup 2026 launch period. Apply at with: * Your Telegram handle * The niche you'd own (e.g., "Brazilian football leagues", "Esports — Counter-Strike", "K-pop chart movements") * A sample market you'd create (question + outcomes + resolution rule + source) If your niche and sample look good, you get MO status immediately. ### 2. **Trader graduation** Predictors who trade actively, profitably, and across multiple pillars auto-qualify for MO status. The Mini App will prompt you when you cross the threshold. ### 3. **Tournament finalist** Top finishers in the Bracket Challenge and other tournaments are offered MO status as part of their prize. ## What an MO earns Community markets carry the highest fee multiplier of any pillar — **1.5×** the base trade fee (vs. 0.8× on Sports and 1.0× on Crypto). Out of every trade fee collected, **half (50%) goes to you, the MO**, as compensation for the work of creating and resolving the market. (The rest funds the maker rebate pool, the treasury, and the insurance pool.) Your MO share is credited in USDT to your Fronex wallet **on every trade, as it happens** — you don't wait for the market to resolve to start earning. ## What you commit to as an MO * **Resolving on time.** Once your market's event concludes, you have **24 hours** to log in, set the outcome, and reference your stated source. Late resolution caps your fee share for that market. * **Resolving honestly.** The source you stated up front is the source you use. If you change the rule mid-market, predictors can appeal and the platform sides with them. * **No conflict of interest.** You can't predict on markets *you* created. That's enforced at the trade level — the Mini App won't let you place a position on your own market. ## What you can lose as an MO * **MO status**, if you resolve dishonestly or repeatedly leave markets unresolved. * **A specific market's fee share**, if you fail to resolve within 24 hours. * **Time, not money, on a rejected market.** If your market is rejected at review, your **creation fee is refunded in full** to your Fronex balance. You only lose the effort of resubmitting. ## Tools we give MOs * **Templates** — 8 starter shapes for common market types. * **Source library** — a list of public, free, oracle-friendly data sources (Spotify Charts, NOAA, public competition feeds, etc.) you can reference. * **AI clarity review** — Claude reviews your market before it goes live and surfaces ambiguity *before* predictors complain. * **MO leaderboard** — your markets ranked by liquidity and your resolution timeliness. ## What the platform owns vs. what MOs own * **The platform creates**: Soccer, Crypto, Entertainment, Climate markets. We never "seed" community markets — the Community pillar is 100% MO-created. * **MOs create**: Community markets only. (Some MOs may eventually be invited to help curate Entertainment or Climate markets, but that's a separate role.) This is the moat. We can't manually build every niche; you can. 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