A question that deserves a straight answer before you pay your first dollar: what happens to your money if a market does not resolve as expected?
On PolySouq the answer is simple: in every void, every stake is returned in full to whoever placed it — right and wrong alike — and the commission is zero. There is no such thing as a partial settlement: either the market resolves fully under its published rule, or everything is refunded. Your capital is at risk — only trade what you can afford to lose. This is educational content, not financial advice.
What if nobody stands on the other side? A full refund. Because you trade against other users, never against the platform. Usually: winners get their own stake back and split the losing pool, with a 10% commission taken from that losing pool only. Case one: everyone is on "Yes," $500, and nothing on "No." They get their stakes back, and there is no commission because there is no loser. Case two: all the money is on "No," and the result is "Yes." There are no winners, so the market is voided and the stakes are refunded, with zero commission. Case three: an operator cancellation for a stated reason, such as ambiguous wording. The refund is full for everyone, with no partial settlement. Case four: in football, cancelling before kickoff means a full refund. This is a cancellation, not a sale — and there is no exit after kickoff. Always: winners' payouts plus the commission equal the amounts staked. $960 to winners, $40 commission, and the total is
PolySouq runs on a parimutuel pool model with a strict arithmetic guarantee: what leaves a market equals exactly what went into it. The sum of winner payouts plus commission must equal the total staked.
That equality is checked at every settlement. If it ever fails to balance, the settlement stops and nothing is paid until it is reviewed — because a stuck market an operator can fix is better than a payout that quietly breaks the guarantee the whole system rests on.
This is why partial settlement does not exist: a market either resolves in full, or every stake comes back in full.
An outcome can resolve such that everyone turns out to have been right — there is no wrong side in the market.
Here every participant gets their stake back in full, and the commission is zero. The reason is direct: commission is drawn from the losing pot alone, so with no losing pot there is nothing to draw from. No profit, no commission.
This is not an exception handled by hand — it is a rule written into the settlement mechanism itself.
An outcome can occur that nobody took a position on — there is no one to pay.
In that case the market is voided and every stake is returned, with zero commission.
Consider the alternative: keeping the whole pot. That would make the platform's single biggest payday the one market where every participant lost — incompatible with a product built around testing what you know. So the rule is explicit: the money goes back.
A market can be voided for operational reasons: wording ambiguous enough that the outcome admits more than one reading, the announced official source becoming unavailable, or the event itself being cancelled.
Here a full refund of every position applies — to those who were right and those who were wrong equally. This refund path is entirely separate from the normal settlement path in the code, and the separation is deliberate: a voided market cannot accidentally end in a partial payout.
Positions in a voided market do not enter the competitive pot at all — they count as neither a gain nor a loss against your performance.
Most ambiguity comes from a question that admits two readings, not from a dispute about the facts. That makes reading the settlement rule before you enter the single most protective step available to you.
Check three things specifically: what the official source is, the exact timing, and what happens in edge cases — a draw, a postponement, a cancelled event. See how markets settle transparently.
A practical rule: if you cannot describe in one sentence what makes this market resolve Yes, do not enter it yet.
It matters to know the other boundary too:
Your capital is at risk — only trade what you can afford to lose. This is educational content, not financial advice.
PolySouq is a prediction market (forecast market) trading platform and an event trading platform in Arabic. Every market carries a settlement rule and official source published before it opens, and every void means a full refund at zero commission. Funding is a USDC deposit on Polygon, and your maximum loss is capped at what you pay into each position.
In three cases: nobody lost, nobody backed the outcome that happened, or an operator void due to ambiguous wording, an unavailable source, or a cancelled event. In every case stakes return in full and the commission is zero.
No. Your stake is returned in full with nothing deducted, whether you were right or wrong. Commission on a void is zero because it is drawn from the losing pot alone, and a voided market has none.
No. The refund path is entirely separate from the settlement path, deliberately, so a voided market cannot end in a partial payout by mistake. A market either resolves in full or every stake is returned.
To your balance inside the platform, not directly to your external wallet. You can then request a withdrawal to a Polygon address you provide, subject to the withdrawal minimum and limits.
No. Positions in a voided market never enter the competitive pot and count as neither a gain nor a loss, so they do not move your ranking.
No. A market that resolves against the majority view is entirely valid. Voiding concerns whether the market can be resolved at all — ambiguous wording or an unavailable source — not whether the outcome was expected.
Read the settlement rule before entering and check three things: the official source, the exact timing, and what happens in edge cases such as a draw or postponement. If you cannot state the settlement condition in one sentence, wait.
A delay is not a void. The correct behaviour is to wait for the announced source to publish and then settle against it. Voiding applies when the source genuinely becomes unavailable, not when it is merely late.
Disclaimer: Prediction markets are a legal and legitimate way to trade information about the outcomes of future events. However, trading carries risk and you may lose the full amount you trade — so only trade what you can afford to lose. This content is educational and is not financial or investment advice.