Question 1

What is BlinkMarkets?

Accepted Answer

A prediction gauntlet: sit at a table of 4 to 10 players and call whether Bitcoin, Ethereum or Solana ends each sixty-second round higher or lower. Every round starts you on a fresh $1,000; your net is every round's result added up, and the best nets after round 10 take the pot. Or watch a featured table and back the player you think will win. It is free to play.

Question 2

Do I need a wallet or crypto to start?

Accepted Answer

No. Sign up with an email and you can sit at the next table. Nothing to connect, nothing to fund, no deposit. You get 100 BlinkBucks to play with when your account opens.

Question 3

Is this real money?

Accepted Answer

No. Play credits and BlinkBucks have no cash value: they cannot be bought, sold or cashed out today. The prices are live, the money is not. Real-money play comes later, and only in countries where BlinkMarkets is licensed — the roadmap says how.

Question 4

How does a table work?

Accepted Answer

Join the queue for 10 BB. A table forms every minute from whoever is waiting — two to ten seats — and plays 10 rounds of one coin. Each round you call UP or DOWN on a fresh $1,000, and can cash out before the lock. What the round made or lost is added to your net; the stack itself starts fresh every round.

Question 5

Who gets the pot?

Accepted Answer

The pot is every player's buy-in. After the final round it is paid by place: winner takes all up to three seats; the top two are paid at four and five, the top three from six — 70/30 for two places, 50/30/20 for three. Players who tie share the places they cover. House players, marked BOT, fill empty seats so tables start on time; they put nothing in the pot, and a paid place a house player finishes in is not paid to anyone.

Question 6

What decides a round?

Accepted Answer

The price when the round ends against the price when it opened, read from an index built from major exchanges' prices — not from anything traded here. Above the opening price, UP wins; at or below, DOWN wins.

Question 7

What happens in the last seconds?

Accepted Answer

The round locks three seconds before it ends: no new calls and no cash-outs, and the last price decides. The next round opens as soon as this one ends.

Question 8

What is backing?

Accepted Answer

On a featured table, marked ★ and announced five minutes before it starts, you can back the player you think will finish first: 5, 10 or 25 BB a back, until round 5 locks. If they finish first, they take 10% of the pool and everyone who backed them splits the rest by what they put in; if a house player wins, its backers split the whole pool. BlinkMarkets takes no cut: the winner's 10% goes to the player, not the house.

Question 9

Can I take a back back?

Accepted Answer

Until the table starts, yes — you get all of it back. From round 1 a back is final, like a ticket at the track. If nobody backed the winner, or the table is void, every back comes back in full.

Question 10

What are BlinkBucks?

Accepted Answer

BlinkBucks (BB) are what you sit down with, what the pot is paid in, and what you back players with. You start with 100 BB. Drop below 50 BB and you can top back up to 100 BB from your profile; every BlinkBuck in and out is in your BlinkBucks history.

Question 11

What are Play credits?

Accepted Answer

Paper dollars, for calling rounds. At a table every round starts on a fresh $1,000. On Trade, the warm-up between tables, you start every day on $1,000, reset at 00:00 UTC, and under $100 at the end of a round you are topped back up. Play credits never turn into BlinkBucks.

Question 12

What is the BlinkWallet?

Accepted Answer

Your wallet on BlinkMarkets, for prizes paid in USDC. Add your Solana wallet's address (Phantom, Solflare, Backpack, or an exchange's Solana USDC deposit address) and withdraw: every payout is checked by hand, then sent on-chain with a Solscan link. A $0.50 network fee comes off each withdrawal, and you see exactly what arrives before you confirm. A new address waits 24 hours before it can be paid, and we email you when one is added.

Question 13

How is the leaderboard ranked?

Accepted Answer

On BlinkBucks won at play, today and this week: pots taken and backs that came in, less buy-ins and backs that did not. The BlinkBucks you are given — the welcome ones and top-ups — never count, so nobody starts ahead.

Question 14

Can I lose more than I put in?

Accepted Answer

No. At a table the most you can lose is your 10 BB buy-in, and on a back the most you can lose is the back. There is no leverage and nothing to owe.

Straight answers.

Getting started

Playing a table

Backing a player

BlinkBucks and credits