Prohibited Markets

Illegal activity

Markets whose subject matter, or whose resolution, would require or reward unlawful conduct.

Violence and terrorism

Markets on acts of violence, terrorism, or the success of violent campaigns.

Personal harm

Markets on the death, injury, illness or suffering of identifiable individuals, including assassination markets.

Exploitation

Markets involving minors, trafficking, sexual exploitation or abuse.

Private information

Markets that depend on confidential, non-public or unlawfully obtained personal information.

Market manipulation

Markets designed to incentivise manipulation of this protocol or of external markets.

Sanctions evasion

Markets facilitating sanctions circumvention or dealings with sanctioned parties.

Illegal financial activity

Markets facilitating fraud, laundering, unlicensed money transmission or similar activity.

Defamatory content

Markets whose framing makes a clearly defamatory factual assertion about a person or organisation.

Unresolvable questions

Markets that cannot be objectively resolved from any public source.

Spam

Duplicate, empty, nonsense or promotional markets created at volume.

Impersonation and fraud

Markets that impersonate a person, brand, project or official channel, or that mislead about who created them.