# Welcome to Melee

### TL;DR

Melee is Pumpfun meets Polymarket. 

This is because Melee is a permissionless prediction market with 3 core attributes:

* Anyone can make a market about anything \[Coming Soon]
* Traders make more money
* [Creators monetize their audience](#creators-monetize-their-audience) \[Coming Soon]

### Anyone Can Make Markets About Anything

On Melee creators can ask any type of question (fact or opinion) and users can speculate on it using a novel pricing mechanic that rewards them for being early and right. This design eliminates the need for centralized gatekeepers and shifts the value to the user.<br>

### Traders Make More Money

Unlike most prediction markets, on Melee outcomes are priced along a bonding curve, allowing speculators to make money by being both early and right. In the bonding curve based price structure, the earlier you get into a market, the better your price.

This mechanic makes Melee's markets function similarly to a token where your potential winnings grow as more people buy after you. The result is a return mechanism never seen in prediction markets, giving early speculators massive potential wins (100x+).&#x20;

On Melee all positions are final, eliminating the risk of rugs or bag holders. Your winnings are fully determined by your ability to predict the outcome.&#x20;

#### There are three ways to win:

* **Be Early** &#x20;
  * By selecting “Melee All”, you buy into all outcomes in the market. Because outcomes are priced on a bonding curve, if the market grows to a large enough size, you can make money no matter what outcome occurs (ex. If you are up +2x on two conflicting positions, you will make back the losses of one position with the profit of the other).
* **Be Right**
  * As real probabilities change, buy outcomes that have a mispricing between the real odds and the odds on Melee
* **Be Early & Right**&#x20;
  * If you have conviction in an outcome, buy it early without hedging. Being early to a single outcome yields the highest returns, but also comes with the most risk.

### Creators Monetize Their Audience

Melee is a creator focused platform, allowing influencers engage with their audience and make money from the volume they generate. Alternative to tokens, creators receive a sustainable revenue stream that is not risky to their reputation.

Market creation will begin with a whitelisted set of creators, but will eventually become permissionless.\
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If you are interested in becoming a Melee creator, please fill out this [form](https://dog-icon-53a.notion.site/268c75b77d5c8155af2ff0dc0205b466).&#x20;

Have fun and welcome to the [Melee](https://alpha.melee.markets/).<br>


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