CHAPTER 10 OF 15

Fairness and safety

Rules fixed before anyone trades

Every market's metric, source, deadline, and resolution rules are locked before it opens and cannot be changed afterward. Nobody, including FIRM, can move a market's goalposts after people have taken a position. This is the single biggest source of trust in the product: the rule that decides the outcome was written down and visible before anyone knew what the outcome would be.

Evidence stays on the record

A market's resolution is not a private decision. The evidence behind a proposed result is recorded alongside it, and a dispute window gives position holders a chance to challenge a result they believe misread the evidence. A different party reviews any dispute than the one who proposed the original result, so the same person never both decides and judges an outcome.

Abuse controls

FIRM restricts what a market and an account can do by default rather than trusting good behavior: rate limits, verified signatures on external data callbacks, and access controls that keep one account's data and actions separate from another's. Sensitive actions and state changes are recorded to an audit trail.

How FIRM treats its own activity

To keep new markets from looking empty while they build a real audience, FIRM may generate some demo-credit trading activity on its own markets. This activity always uses demo credit, never cash, USDC, or token value, and it is always labeled in the activity feed, excluded from trader counts, and excluded from every reward. It exists to make a new market's activity feed legible, not to misrepresent real demand.

What a working demo does not prove

A feature working in the demo product, or passing an automated test, is not the same thing as an independent security review, a completed audit, or approval to run a real-money market. FIRM treats those as separate, later milestones, described in the roadmap next, not implied by anything that is already running.