Glossary

  • Bond: Collateral locked by a proposer or disputer during event market resolution.
  • Collateral: The token you deposit into a pool, such as USDC or a local mock collateral token.
  • Event market: A prediction market where users trade YES or NO shares on an outcome.
  • Exclusive market group: A set of linked event markets where outcomes are mutually exclusive.
  • Fee pool: The optional LP reward flow that distributes trading fees to opted-in liquidity in price markets.
  • Full position: A price position mode where same-direction opens merge into one long or short bucket.
  • Hard cap: A protocol price boundary that can stop an event trade from pushing a market beyond its configured limit.
  • Health ratio: A price position safety score (adjusted value ÷ collateral). Lower values mean the position is closer to liquidation.
  • Liquidity lot: One price-market LP deposit tracked with its own share balance and fee-pool choice.
  • Margin account: A user-owned account contract that can manage same-collateral Cross positions when supported.
  • Oracle: A price feed or resolution source used by TACO contracts.
  • Outcome share: A YES or NO token in an event market.
  • Partial fill: A trade result where only part of the requested size executes.
  • Pool shares: The internal unit the pool uses to track LP claims on pool collateral (minting and redeeming liquidity). Trader positions are valued by the psi-adjusted model, not by pool shares.
  • Price market: A perpetual price prediction market where users open collateralized long or short positions.
  • Psi: The pool-level solvency adjustment that scales price-market payouts so shared collateral stays solvent across all longs and shorts. It is not a fee.
  • Resolution: The process that finalizes an event market outcome and enables redemption or LP settlement.
  • Separate position: A price position mode where each open creates its own independent position.
  • Test collateral: Mock collateral used only in local or testnet environments.
  • Tranche: A layer of event market liquidity with its own risk depth and fee rate.
  • vTACO: The virtual staking balance used to calculate fee discounts where staking is configured.

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