Making Your First Purchase

A step-by-step guide to creating a Predict account, depositing USDT or USDC, and making your first prediction on a market.

Prerequisites

For the super-simple Predict experience, you just need some crypto (which you'll later deposit).

With the Predict Smart Wallet, you'll enjoy gas-free and zero-approval transactions, and you can log in with your socials or email address.

If you want to make things more difficult on yourself, we're not going to stop you. You can elect to use a traditional Web3 wallet, but each action will require multiple approvals (and you'll pay gas fees).

1. Create your account

To authenticate yourself (the easy way!) on Predict, you'll use a Google, X or email account. This will generate your smart contract wallet, which requires no management on your behalf.

Click Sign Up on the top-right corner of the homepage to create your account.

Click Connect on the top-right corner of any page to sign up. You'll be prompted to select your preferred login method. Be warned, however: if you lose access to this, Predict cannot help you recover your account. Ensure that you've taken the appropriate steps to backup your desired method.

Confirm that you've understood this, and you'll be prompted to create a username (we'll suggest one for you if you've authenticated via X, but feel free to change it).

2. Deposit Funds

Following the pop-up confirming your signup, you'll be prompted to deposit funds to your deposit address.

Using the wallet of your choosing, copy and paste either of the two deposit addresses or scan the QR code:

• The Predict Smart Wallet address is on BNB Chain, and only supports USDT deposits.

• The Global Deposit Address supports USDC and USDT deposits from a number of chains, including Ethereum, Base and Arbitrum.

Do not deposit anything other than USDC or USDT, as you won't be able to recover other asset types!

It can take a few minutes for the funds to appear in your account. Can't see them? Check your transaction's status or deposit address on BscScan.

3. Choose Your Market

When your funds appear in your account, you're good to go.

Head over to the Markets page to discover trending markets across a range of categories (use the filters to refine your search further).

Once you've found your desired market, you can either navigate to it for additional information (e.g. the orderbook and details about its resolution), or buy shares by clicking directly on YES or NO (for binary markets), or on your preferred option (for multi-outcome markets).

At this stage, you'll need to specify the dollar value you wish to spend (with a minimum of $1), and whether your order is a limit order or a market order.

If you want to purchase immediately at the current price, a market order is recommended. If you want to specify a price at which to buy, use a limit order instead. Additionally, if your limit orders are close to the market price, you'll earn points for providing liquidity.

The To Win field will populate based on your selection, representing the approximate value of your shares should your bet be correct.

If all looks good, hit the Buy button. You can then track your position via the Portfolio page.

For selling shares, the process is near-identical: just select Sell in the top-left corner of the flow.