Funding Bot Liquidity

The market-making bot posts buy and sell orders so that people can trade. Funding gives the bot money to support those orders. Creating a market does not fund the bot. Any user can add funding, including after market creation.

Before you pay

Bot funding is non-refundable. It is a subsidy, not an investment that gives you shares, fees, profits, or a right to withdraw. You have no right to the money left when the market closes. Fund your own trading wallet instead if you want money available for your trades.

Your payment stays allocated to the selected condition. The bot can use it across that condition’s outcomes, but not for another condition. For example, Alpha, Beta, and Gamma can share one budget when they are outcomes of the same event.

Review the amount and any fees before you confirm. The app shows amounts in sats. Before it prepares a payment, the app checks that the amount remains at or above the required minimum after applicable receive fees. Mint fees can reduce the amount available to the bot. A completed payment does not guarantee immediate liquidity or a fill for your next order. The bot also depends on the supported mint being available.

Add funding

After market creation, enter the amount in sats. You can skip funding. Closing this screen does not undo the market.

For an existing market, open its LIQUIDITY tab. Follow the payment steps with funds from the supported mint. Wait for the app to confirm completion. You can make more funding payments later. You do not need to be the creator.

If a payment is still pending, check or resume that payment in the app. After a reload, resume the same payment. A received payment is not yet credited to the market. Wait for the app to confirm credit before you make another explicit funding payment. Do not make a second payment only because the first one is taking time. A second payment is a separate, non-refundable subsidy.

If recovery is incomplete or unavailable, that is different from insufficient balance. Funds that are already ready in this wallet can be used without waiting for remote recovery.

What changes after funding

The bot uses an LMSR pricing strategy. Its first funding starts it from an equal starting position across outcomes. You do not select an opening probability when you fund it.

Later funding can increase the size of the bot’s orders and change its buy and sell prices, even without a trade. If an earlier bot trade is still settling, new funding waits before it changes the strategy. New bot trades pause during that wait.

Funding does not change the public market price. That price comes only from the latest confirmed trade. Before the first trade, the app shows No trades yet or an em dash. The prices of orders available now can differ from the last trade price.

Total funding shows all confirmed funding after receive fees. Each new payment adds to this total. Trading does not reduce it. It is not the money left in the bot or the amount you can trade now. Use the current trade preview to check whether your whole order can fill.

Choose a budget

A larger budget can support more shares near the current prices. It also commits more of your money without a refund. A smaller budget supports less trading, and trades can move the bot’s prices more quickly. Estimates of order-book depth are not a promise of available liquidity.

If an order is too large to fill, try a smaller amount. Consider a subsidy only when the preview says that more funding may help. Funding does not fix every refusal, such as a price limit or an unavailable market. It does not buy your shares. Review a new trade preview after funding. Funding and trading are separate actions.

When no orders are available, the BUY and SELL tabs direct you to LIQUIDITY. The trade form returns when executable orders are available.