Introducing Closed Beta Launch & Development Update 🎉

OptionRoom
4 min readApr 16, 2021

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We are excited to announce the launch of our Closed Beta Program and share the latest development updates with our community.

During the past weeks, we have been working hard to deliver the OptionRoom protocol on time, we are excited to announce that we are ahead of schedule.

Summary ✨

  • Forecast market Beta version is finished
  • Closed Beta Testing Program launch, 20 testers with rewards to the tester who provide most valuable feedback on the OptionRoom Beta
  • Register to be one of 20 Closed Beta Testers HERE
  • Governance is currently under development: UI is completed, smart contracts are undergoing audits
  • Whitepaper and COURT mechanics update coming in the next weeks
  • Binance Smart Chain Mainnet Integration: Due to high Ethereum gas fees, the team is considering launching Mainnet on Binance Smart Chain. A community poll will be held on our Twitter in the upcoming days.
  • Small surprise within the next two weeks

Foreword ✍🏽

Before we jump into the Beta preview we wanted to clarify the confusion about the OptionRoom protocol for newer community members:

  • OptionRoom is a forecast market and a truly decentralized user governed oracle protocol
  • A Forecast market is a platform for trading the outcomes of future events, the main differentiators of OptionRoom are:
  • The platform is 100% user-owned (owners of the COURT tokens control the platform)
  • User Incentives make up 38% of the total supply, which means everyone using the platform will be rewarded with ROOM tokens
  • The team gets 0% of the fees generated by the protocol, all the fees will be used to buy back ROOM tokens from the market (75% of those fees go to liquidity providers for the markets, 25% are locked in the OptionRoom reward pool)
  • The Oracle can be used to retrieve data that cannot be retrieved by traditional oracles (we have made multiple partnerships with other projects that will use the oracle for different types of verification) Every oracle request has a fee in ROOM tokens that will be burned.
  • OptionRoom Partnerships can be found on our Medium HERE
  • There’s also voters rewards for every oracle request that will be distributed among voters on that request based on their voting power (more COURT tokens staked = more reward)

Closed Beta Preview and Development Update ⭐️

Below is a preview of the OptionRoom Beta. Register to be one of the 20 Closed Beta Testers before 20. April HERE

Market Creation Page
Market Creation Page Filled

On this interface, users can create a new forecast market. Market will be voted on by governance before being added to the platform. Users set the forecast market question, category, and end date. They can also choose to add additional Rules to simplify the resolution process.

Market Page

This page is where users can participate in the market by buying Yes/No outcome tokens, it also shows information about the current market such as Volume, Current Outcome Probability, Sources.

Market Main Page

This page shows all the currently listed markets with the ability to filter by category and market status.

Market Positions

Information page showing details about the current market including a simple position swap and manager interface. Users can enter positions by selecting ‘buy’ and the number of shares they want to buy.

In other news

  • Partnership review upcoming
  • Listed on AscendEx (Formely Bitmax)
  • Listed on Bittrex

Binance Smart Chain Mainnet Integration: Due to high Ethereum gas fees, the team is considering launching Mainnet on Binance Smart Chain. A community poll will be held on our Twitter in the upcoming days.

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OptionRoom

OptionRoom — User governed oracle and forecast protocol built on Polkadot