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 20 % fee-share of all trades routed through your builder_code is unlocked (up from the default 0 % until trade_full tier).
- Milestone funding: 3 gates (design, alpha, GA) with defined deliverables
- 20 % of platform fee on every fill your app routes, permanent
- Optional additive builder fee (0–100 bps taker, 0–50 bps maker) — stacks on top of platform fee, accrues 100 % to your wallet
- 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 fee schedule (below the 30 bps default)
- Prime-tier token-bucket limits from day one
- Optional Designated Market Maker status: 20 bps maker rebate on qualifying 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/{id} for status.
What PAX grants ship with
- Attribution model — 4-way fee split coded at the protocol level: LP, treasury, attributing builder (20 %), market creator (10 %). Written to
fee_ledgeron every fill. - Additive builder fee — optional 0–100 bps taker / 0–50 bps maker on top of the platform fee, accruing 100 % to your wallet.
- Progressive-trust auto-graduation — 30 days clean history + $10k routed volume unlocks the full-tier revshare automatically.
- Milestone-based drawdown — no lump-sum. Design gate + alpha gate + GA gate, each with defined deliverables.