06 · Bazaar docs
Creator earnings
Listing markets is a business, not a favour. Every bet on your market pays a 10% entry fee and you keep 20–55% of it — credited claimable the instant the market settles, with no vesting and no minimum payout.
The split
- Entry fee
- 10%
- Your share
- 20–50%
- Weekly kicker
- +5pp
- Referral share
- 20%
of each stake, charged once
of that fee, by lifetime tier
top 10 Creator Scores, capped at 55%
of the fee, 180 days per referred bettor
a $100 bet on your market ├── $10.00 entry fee │ ├── you 20% → $2.00 (Rookie) │ │ 35% → $3.50 (Sharp) │ │ 50% → $5.00 (Oracle) │ │ 55% → $5.50 (Oracle + weekly kicker, the ceiling) │ ├── referrer 20% → $2.00 (only on referred bets) │ └── protocol the remainder — never less than 25% of any fee └── $90.00 into the pool
The tier ladder
Tiers are lifetime and never demote. They are earned with resolutions and real volume, in that order — the ladder rewards creators who actually settle what they list.
| Tier | Fee share | Requires | Public creates / 24h | Open public cap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rookie | 20% | the starting tier | 2 | 10 |
| Sharp | 35% | 10 resolutions + $1000.00 real volume | 10 | 25 |
| Oracle | 50% | 50 resolutions + $12500.00 real volume | 25 | 25 |
- Real USDC only. Practice (pUSDC) volume can never promote you or move your score — that firewall is what kills points-farming.
- Your own bets count. Own volume counts toward tier bars and score volume, and you earn your share on the fees your own bets pay. It is your capital, and the protocol’s remainder makes wash volume lossy anyway.
- Higher tiers unlock supply, not just money — more creates per day, more simultaneous open markets, plus recurring streams and collection curation at Sharp+.
The weekly kicker
Each week the top 10 creators by Creator Score earn +5 percentage points of fee share for the following week, capped at 55% in total. It is a recurring performance bonus rather than a one-off prize: a Sharp creator in the top 10 earns 40% that week; an Oracle earns the 55% ceiling.
Referral earnings
Separate from your creator share and stackable with it: bring a bettor and you earn 20% of the fee on everything they stake anywhere on Bazaar for 180 days — not just on your own markets. Full mechanics on Sharing & referrals.
Claiming
Credits appear on your profile the moment a market settles. One press claims your creator fees and your referral earnings together; a double submit is a no-op rather than an error, because the ledger decides what moves, not the button.
| State | Meaning |
|---|---|
| credited | Earned and claimable now. |
| claimed | Paid out to your wallet. |
| refunded | The market was voided (unresolved, or refunded in the bettors' favour) — nobody earns on a refunded market. |
| forfeited | A policy takedown clawed the fees on that market back to treasury. |
Practice earnings are not claimable
Seasons and the prize pool
Seasons run on a trailing 90-day window and rank creators by their latest weekly score snapshots. A season sets aside 10% of the protocol’s fee take for that window as a creator prize pool, with the percentage stamped onto the season row at creation, so a later retune can never rewrite a season already underway.
Where this stands today
Standings and the prize manifest are live and reproducible (the manifest is a pure computation with a conservation check, and every amount is an exact decimal string). The transfer leg is deliberately not shipped yet — executing a real season payout is launch ops signed off against a frozen season, so an execute request returns 501 by design rather than moving money from inside a feature sprint.
Forfeited fees always go to treasury, never into a prize pool — otherwise a takedown would look like it funded somebody’s prize.
What a real month looks like
You list 12 markets in a month and resolve all 12 on time. Total volume across them: $8,000 in bets. fee take $8,000 × 10% = $800.00 your share, Rookie × 20% = $160.00 your share, Sharp × 35% = $280.00 your share, Oracle × 50% = $400.00 + weekly kicker × 55% = $440.00 Plus referral earnings: 20% of the fee on every bet placed by anyone you referred, anywhere on Bazaar, for 180 days each.