Trust & safety
Market integrity
The protocol is permissionless, so integrity work happens where it can: transparency of on-chain data, quality signals, and moderation of what this interface shows.
- Version
- 1.0
- Effective
- 2026-09-06
- Last updated
- 2026-09-06
What we commit to
Fair markets
No privileged trading access, no hidden fees, no interface-side price manipulation. Every quote comes from the on-chain market maker.
Transparent creators
Creator history, markets, volume, traders, resolution record, is derived from chain data and shown publicly.
Resolution integrity
Outcomes come from bonded proposals and challenge windows in the resolver contract, never from an interface decision.
Quality signals
A deterministic quality score highlights vague questions, missing sources and thin liquidity before you trade.
Manipulation and wash-trading monitoring
All trades are public, so patterns such as self-crossing, repeated round-trips between related addresses and last-minute pushes before closing are observable in the data the interface already indexes.
Spam prevention
- Market creation requires a USDC bond and minimum seeded liquidity, which makes bulk spam expensive.
- Minimum market duration prevents throwaway instant-resolution markets.
- Duplicate and low-quality markets can be de-ranked or hidden in discovery.
Interface moderation, not protocol control
- The Platform can hide, label, de-rank or delist a market in this interface.
- The Platform cannot pause, edit, resolve or delete an on-chain market.
- A hidden market remains fully tradable by anyone interacting with Arc directly.
Reporting
Use the report action on any market page to flag unclear resolution, duplicates, prohibited subject matter, misleading questions, wrong topics, spam or manipulation. Reports are for interface moderation only.