BETTER Whitepaper
This document is written for venture capitalists and early-stage investors evaluating BETTER. It is intended to be read quickly at first pass, then revisited during diligence.
Reading guide
- If you have five minutes: read Executive summary, Traction, Business model, and Token economics and access gating.
- If you have fifteen minutes: also read Product, Competitive moat, and Roadmap.
- If you are doing diligence: read Technical architecture (conceptual) and Risks and disclaimers.
All monetary amounts are denominated in United States dollars unless stated otherwise.
Executive summary
BETTER is building execution infrastructure for prediction markets that allows retail traders to access professional-grade speed and tooling.
In prediction markets, edge decays quickly: when news breaks, prices move in milliseconds. People trading manually often arrive after the move; algorithmic systems arrive first.
BETTER’s approach is to make speed available to retail traders through:
- A Terminal that surfaces elite-wallet trade setups, provides context, and enables copy trading.
- Vaults that pool USD Coin on Base and execute strategies on behalf of depositors.
- A high-frequency trading execution stack designed for in-region and co-located routing at Terminal launch.
- Bounded, auditable automated decision-making via the Bounded Reasoning for Autonomous Inference and Decisions protocol.
BETTER is raising 500,000 via a simple agreement for future equity to bring the Terminal, co-located execution, and initial Vault releases to production.
The problem
Prediction markets settle on objective outcomes, but execution is not fair.
When the first credible signals emerge (on-chain wallet activity, order flow shifts, and liquidity dislocations), the market reprices rapidly. Retail traders are structurally disadvantaged:
- They see the information later.
- They react slower.
- They face worse prices and worse fills.
The result is that prediction markets can feel like a casino: sophisticated systems harvest speed-based edge while manual participants become the liquidity.
The BETTER solution
BETTER exists to democratise speed in prediction markets.
Instead of competing against high-speed systems, retail users can opt into a shared execution layer:
The Terminal
The Terminal is the active interface:
- Elite-wallet signal feed with context
- Real-time execution stream
- Copy trading within the Terminal
Terminal access is gated by holding $BETTER.
Vaults
Vaults are the passive interface:
- Users deposit USD Coin on Base
- Automated strategies execute on behalf of depositors
- A performance fee is charged on profits only, on withdrawal
Vault access is gated by staking $BETTER (the same quantity required to view the Terminal).
Execution infrastructure
BETTER’s execution stack is built for low latency, determinism, and reliability.
Public tick-to-trade claim:
- Approximately 0.6 milliseconds, measured from mempool read to transaction hash on Base, then to order finality on Polymarket (Polygon).
For Terminal launch, production routing is designed to be co-located in the same data centre facility as the relevant prediction market order books.
Traction
BETTER has already demonstrated sustained signal collection and real-time processing at scale.
Traction highlights:
- More than ten million signals collected in approximately five months.
- 10,000–40,000 elite-wallet trade setups per day.
- Approximately 0.6 milliseconds tick-to-trade (definition above).
Market context
Prediction markets are converging with multiple large markets:
- Gambling and sports betting
- Financial derivatives
- News and information distribution
As prediction markets mature, execution speed becomes a core differentiator, similar to equities and foreign exchange markets.
Product detail
Signals and decision-making
BETTER ingests market data and on-chain activity, then produces trade setups with confidence.
The decision engine uses bounded reasoning: signals are only promoted to execution when constraints are satisfied (liquidity, risk correlation, and admissibility rules).
Copy trading
The Terminal enables users to act on signals without building their own infrastructure.
Copy trading is part of the initial Terminal release and is planned to go live within 48 hours of the token generation event (21 January 2026).
Receipt tokens
BETTER plans a receipt token (vBETTER) that represents a share of vault performance. Receipt tokens aim to make vault exposure transferable and tradable.
Business model
BETTER is designed with multiple revenue lines:
- Twenty per cent performance fee on profits only.
- Charged on withdrawal.
- No fee if USD Coin withdrawn is below entry value (based on average entry per wallet).
Lite Mode fee (Terminal)
Lite Mode is an optional execution path enabled at log-in.
- When enabled, the Terminal holding requirement halves.
- Vault access requirements remain unchanged across fully diluted valuation tiers.
- A fee of two per cent of notional volume (in USD Coin terms) is charged on volume traded via the Terminal.
Business-to-business product
BETTER plans to sell its Rust data ingestion stack to quantitative funds and bucket shops seeking prediction market exposure.
Model training and credits
After the token generation event, BETTER plans to train an in-house open-source model tuned on BETTER signals and sell application programming interface credits.
Token economics and access gating
Supply and allocations
- Total supply: 1,000,000,000
$BETTER on Base.
Allocation:
| Allocation | Per cent | Amount | Notes |
|---|
| Public sale (launchpad) | 25% | 250,000,000 | Unlocked at the token generation event |
| Liquidity (Base and USD Coin) | 15% | 150,000,000 | Locked permanently (liquidity provider tokens locked) |
| Team | 20% | 200,000,000 | Zero per cent at the token generation event; six-month cliff then nine-month linear release |
| Treasury | 25% | 250,000,000 | Unlocked at the token generation event |
| OpenServ SERV token drop | 5% | 50,000,000 | Unlocked (claimed by SERV token stakers via tasks) |
| Programmatic funding | 10% | 100,000,000 | Released across fully diluted valuation bands |
Hold and stake semantics
- Hold
$BETTER to view the Terminal.
- Stake the same quantity to deposit into Vaults.
Staked $BETTER remains locked until a user withdraws all funds from the vault.
Fully diluted valuation gate phases
| Phase | Fully diluted valuation | Terminal (hold) | Vaults (stake) |
|---|
| One | Below $10 million | 100,000 | 100,000 |
| Two | 10million–20 million | 75,000 | 75,000 |
| Three | 20million–40 million | 50,000 | 50,000 |
| Four | $100 million or more | 10,000 | 10,000 |
- At 0.005(5 million market capitalisation): approximately $500 (Phase one)
- At 0.01(10 million market capitalisation): approximately $1,000 (Phase one)
- At 0.02(20 million market capitalisation): approximately $1,500 (Phase two)
- At 0.04(40 million market capitalisation): approximately $2,000 (Phase three)
- At 0.10(100 million market capitalisation): approximately $1,000 (Phase four)
Lite Mode thresholds
| Phase | Terminal (hold) | Terminal (hold) with Lite Mode |
|---|
| One | 100,000 | 50,000 |
| Two | 75,000 | 37,500 |
| Three | 50,000 | 25,000 |
| Four | 10,000 | 5,000 |
Competitive moat
BETTER’s moat is a combination of infrastructure, data, and operational focus.
Infrastructure-first execution
- Rust-first high-frequency trading execution
- In-region and co-located routing
- Deterministic, constraint-driven execution decisions
Bounded reasoning
Bounded reasoning aims to reduce failure modes that are common in unconstrained automated systems:
- It enforces admissibility rules.
- It produces auditable decision records.
- It limits uncontrolled strategy drift.
Distribution and composability
- Terminal-first distribution for active traders
- Vaults for passive depositors
- Receipt token design for composability
Partnerships
- OpenServ for bounded agent infrastructure
- DomeAPI for execution integration
Roadmap
21 January 2026
- Token generation event
- Terminal live within 48 hours
January 2026
- Vaults live (staged rollout)
First quarter of 2026
- Tokenised vault shares (
vBETTER)
- Kalshi and Opinion integrations complete (March 2026)
- Business-to-business Rust data ingestion product
Second quarter of 2026
- In-house open-source model training and application programming interface credits
- Arbitrage flywheel
Fourth quarter of 2026
$TRUTH-PERP on Hyperliquid
Team
Aryaman Chhaya — Founder and quantitative developer
- Quantitative researcher (buy-side hedge fund): built Bitcoin futures market-making in Rust, approximately 75,000perweekprofitandlossonapproximately500,000 inventory.
- Worked with senior traders on 1.2million–9 million Bitcoin calendar spread books.
- Building sub-millisecond high-frequency trading systems on Solana (Rust and hardware-oriented low-latency design).
Fundraising
BETTER is raising 500,000 via a simple agreement for future equity.
Use of funds:
| Use | Per cent |
|---|
| Infrastructure, engineering, and compute | 50 |
| Audits | 15 |
| Legal and operations | 10 |
| Growth and community | 15 |
| Liquidity | 5 |
| Marketing | 5 |
Risks and disclaimers
This document is not investment, legal, or tax advice.
Key risks include:
- Smart contract risk
- Market risk
- Liquidity risk
- Execution and latency risk
- Oracle and settlement risk
- Cross-chain and integration risk
- Regulatory risk
Protocol mechanics, parameters, and timelines may change.
