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Frequently asked questions
Everything a first-time visitor and a hackathon judge tends to ask, answered against the product spec.
A capped-risk Up/Down market on BTC or ETH over a 15 minute or 1 hour window. Zero fees, fully collateralised, settled onchain. You call which way the candle finishes; a winning contract redeems for 1 unit of collateral.
Only your stake. Max loss equals the amount you put in on a call. There is no leverage and no liquidation. In session mode the vault holds only the budget you deposit, so that budget is your absolute maximum loss.
You do. In direct mode positions stay in your own wallet. In session mode they sit in a per-user contract that only you can withdraw from. No operator delegation, no custody handoff, and no path in the contract moves value to anyone but you.
Yes. Withdraw is never blocked by an armed session policy. You can disarm or withdraw mid-window, after expiry, or at any point in a run.
A session contract has a Reactivity subscription path for market-finalization events. Pulse only labels a handler redemption after the activity tape has a real transaction hash for it.
A voided market redeems both sides at 0.5. It is redeemable, not a loss, and Pulse treats it that way in every P&L figure.
Nothing discretionary. A session rule is a deterministic limit you set at the start: same-side intent, fixed stake that never increases, or stop after one losing window. There is no model, no sentiment signal, and no operator discretion. The card states the rule in plain words.
Direct mode needs you back for claim-all. Session mode is built around the onchain handler path; the tape only shows validator-handled redemption after a real handler hash is observed.
Pulse is built for the Somnia Shannon testnet with mainnet-ready types. Collateral is test tUSDC with no real value. Mainnet with USDso is on the roadmap, not in this build.