Market curation helps distinguish high-quality prediction markets from lower-quality markets. As with all other features of the Polkamarkets Protocol, market curation is a decentralized, on-chain, process.
POLK holders are able to upvote or downvote markets, providing a signal on the perceived quality of the markets to other individuals and to dapps using the protocol.
Voting happens on-chain, which means that participants will pay a small gas fee to the network to execute the transaction. Once the transaction is confirmed, the upvote or downvote will be registered on the blockchain and will be readable by other participants and dapps.
The market curation feature is available directly in the Polkamarkets Web Application. POLK holders can click the upvote/downvote arrows in the market list to provide their feedback on the quality or relevance of a prediction market.
Alternatively, POLK holders can use other blockchain clients, such as Moonscan, to interact directly with the smart contract, on Moonriver and/or Moonbeam, to cast their vote on the quality of the markets and/or to retrieve the number of upvotes and downvotes for all markets.
If you wish to participate in market curation, we encourage you to learn and follow the Market Curation Guidelines.
What you should consider before upvoting or downvoting a prediction market.
We encourage POLK holders that wish to participate in market curation to consider the following guidelines to determine whether to upvote or downvote a prediction market.
Prediction markets that meet all these criteria should be upvoted: