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You confirm these when you create your account. Read them before you trade, not after. This page is a plain-language summary; the Terms of Service are the agreement that binds.
You can lose everything you put at stake. You trade at your own risk and you alone carry the outcome of every position.

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What Tickside is

Tickside is a front end. It shows you a venue’s market and sends the orders you choose to that venue.
  • Your funds are never with Tickside. They stay in your wallet or in your account at the venue, for the whole time you use the app.
  • Tickside cannot move, freeze, recover or reverse them, and cannot trade on your behalf.
  • Tickside never receives your private keys. The Privy wallet’s key is held by Privy and never reaches Tickside. An imported venue key is entered and used in your browser and is never sent to Tickside servers. See Security.
  • Tickside gives no advice. Every price, figure, chart and P&L on screen is information, not a recommendation. Every decision is yours.

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Risks of trading here

Prediction markets settle to a result. A position that loses pays nothing. Lay exposure can be several times the figure you typed, depending on the odds and the stake mode you are in. Risk only what you can lose entirely.
Latency, disconnections, venue outages, rate limits, maintenance and errors in a venue’s own systems are outside Tickside’s control. An order can be late, partly filled, rejected, or never placed at all. Never assume a position exists because you clicked.
P&L, exposure, fees and positions are Tickside’s best reconstruction from the data available. Market data, scores and fixtures come from third parties and can be incomplete, delayed or inaccurate. The venue’s own record prevails in any discrepancy.
Deposits, withdrawals and transfers between venues run on blockchains and venue bridges. Once submitted they are final. A wrong address, a wrong network or a wrong amount cannot be undone by Tickside or by the venue. See Deposit, withdraw and transfer.
Because Tickside never holds your keys, it cannot restore them. If you lose an imported key, or clear the only browser holding its encrypted copy, access to that venue account is gone. Tickside support will never ask you for a key, seed phrase or passphrase. Anyone who does is not Tickside.
Every venue restricts access from certain countries under its own terms, and those restrictions reach you through the venue whatever else you agree to. You are responsible for the laws that apply where you are, including tax, gambling, financial services and sanctions law. Tickside detects and records the country a connection appears to come from, and may refuse or restrict access. Geolocation is imperfect and is not a permission.
Tickside is independent beta software. It changes often, it can contain defects, and a defect can cost money on a live market. Nothing here is guaranteed to be available, uninterrupted or correct.

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Before you trade live

1

Start in PAPER

Paper mode uses live prices and places no order. It is the only way to learn the ladder without money at stake. Its results do not predict live outcomes.
2

Know what your stake means

The S / L / E control changes how much risk the same number carries. Read What your stake means before switching to LIVE.
3

Check the account and the venue

Confirm which venue and which account the ladder is trading before the first order. Cash and exposure always belong to the active account for that venue.
4

Size for a total loss

Put up only what you can lose completely, and keep enough outside the venue to not need what is inside it.
If any of this is not acceptable to you, do not use Tickside for live trading. Paper mode remains available and risks no money.