Grants Program
Milestone-based funding, technical mentorship, and go-to-market support for teams building on Asia's prediction-market network. Three tracks fitting different stages.
💰 Committed pool — 2026
Backed by the platform Insurance pool (funded from 5% of AMM house edge). Distributed on merit — no lottery. Every payment written to a hash-chained, R2-anchored audit event: verify at /verify. Open a live grant application via POST /v1/apply?track=builder. Highest-value single bounty currently: Asia-native prediction terminal — 15,000 USDT.
Hackathon Track
For weekend builds, hack-a-thons, and first-time PAX integrations. Ship an MCP tool, embed widget, or trading bot. Get a small stipend on completion + featured slot in the directory.
- Fixed USDT stipend on shipped demo (paid within 7 days)
- Directory listing at
docs.predictasiax.com/directory - Sandbox API key + preferred rate-limit tier for the sprint
- No revenue-share obligation
Builder Track
For teams shipping production apps on PAX — trading terminals, prediction agents, embed integrations. Milestone-based USDT + PAX vesting, plus the acquisition_builder + execution_builder share of every fill routed through your builder_code is unlocked immediately (auto-tier 6 bps combined of the PAF centre 20 bps, without waiting for the trade_full graduation).
- Milestone funding: 3 gates (design, alpha, GA) with defined deliverables
- acquisition_builder + execution_builder buckets — 6 bps auto / 8 bps at
trade_full/ 10 bps atgenesis/partner— these are the combined-share bps at the PAF centre (effective fee 20 bps at 50/50). Each fill's actual builder allocation scales proportionally with the effective clamped fee (floor 8 bps at 0¢/100¢, so buckets scale by 8/20 at extremes). 25 bps ceiling is a configurable safety cap, dormant with default PAF_BASE=20. Permanent, on every fill your app routes. - Optional additive taker fee (0–100 bps taker) — stacks on top of the PAF fee, accrues 100 % to your wallet. Set per-request via
additive_fee_bpson the fee estimator. No additive on the maker side. - Technical mentorship: architecture review, oracle integration, WebSocket scaling
- GTM: featured slot on
docs.predictasiax.com/directory, co-marketed Asia launches
Partner Track
For established exchanges, brokers, wallets, and infrastructure providers routing meaningful volume. Bespoke fee tiers, custom rate-limit caps, WebSocket/FIX access, joint go-to-market, and a designated technical liaison.
- Bespoke PAX Adaptive Fee Curve tuning — negotiable PAF_BASE / FLOOR / CEILING below the default 20 / 8 / 25 bps
- Prime-tier token-bucket limits from day one
- Optional Institutional Liquidity Partner (ILP) status: guaranteed
mm_stipend_poolallocation + LQF quality multiplier for qualifying two-sided quotes - Joint Asia-launch marketing + regional distribution
- Direct escalation to founding team
What we look for
Criteria (any track)
- Asia-native fit — deep understanding of an APAC market segment (K-pop / cricket / ASEAN elections / JP central bank / SGD-HKD-RM FX, etc.), or plausible plan to bring existing Asia users on-chain.
- Verifiable prior work — a GitHub repo, live demo, previous integration, or reference customer. We evaluate craft, not credentials.
- No US persona — PAX serves Asia primarily. Teams targeting US retail are out of scope.
- Legibility — you can articulate the exact contract you'll ship in one paragraph. Vague strategy decks get declined.
How it works
- Submit an application at /request-access — pick the track. No email required; provide a Telegram / Signal / Discord / Matrix / X DM handle instead.
- Admin operator triages your application. Green-lane (verified prior work + clear scope) reaches decision in ~24 hours; yellow-lane needs a short call.
- Approved teams get a signed grant agreement + PAX-vesting schedule + milestone gate schedule.
- Ship, invoice against milestones, accrue attribution + optional additive builder fees.
There is no automated SLA on grant decisions. Timing depends on operator throughput and the size of the ask. Poll GET /v1/access-requests/{req_id} for status.
What PAX grants ship with
- Attribution model — 7-actor PAF split coded at the protocol level (acquisition_builder, execution_builder, operator, market_creator, mm_stipend_pool, lp, platform_net). Every CLOB fill writes an idempotent
financial_eventrow per bucket on the Neon ledger. See Fee Architecture / Layer 1 for the exact tier-scaled bps and /verify for cryptographic verifiability. - Additive taker fee — optional 0–100 bps on the taker side, on top of the PAF fee, accruing 100 % to your wallet. No additive on the maker side (MMs are already compensated via LQF-scored maker rebate 3–8 bps +
mm_stipend_pooldaily payouts). - Progressive-trust auto-graduation — 30-day attributed CLOB volume promotes
self_serve→read_liveat $100 andread_live→trade_cappedat $1,000, unlocking higher builder-bucket shares automatically. Higher tiers (trade_full,genesis,partner) require admin approval. - Milestone-based drawdown — no lump-sum. Design gate + alpha gate + GA gate, each with defined deliverables.