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Plain-language glossary
The words you will see in tickets, balances, games and agents.
Reviewed 2026-09-07
Use this page when a label stops you from following a guide.
| Word | Meaning in Masayume |
|---|---|
| Window | One asset over one defined interval, with an opening and closing result. |
| Opening print | The reference price at the Window's start. Ordinary UP/DOWN compares the final print against it. |
| Closing print | The oracle's final price for that Window. |
| Oracle | The price source and settlement process used to decide the final outcome. |
| UP / DOWN | UP wins at or above the opening print; DOWN wins below it. |
| Stake | The amount at risk in the call or round. |
| Payout / Return | What the winning condition can return, including any stake represented in that amount. It is not automatically the profit. |
| Profit / loss | The amount received minus what the relevant position or record cost, under the screen's stated accounting. |
| Quote | The terms available now: price, amount and potential return. It can change before execution. |
| Fill | The part of an order that actually found available liquidity. |
| Book | Buy and sell orders waiting at different prices. UP and DOWN have their own books. |
| Depth / liquidity | How much can be traded at the available levels. A visible price can have very little quantity behind it. |
| Slippage | A change in the price you can get as an order reaches different levels or the market moves. |
| Requote | A request to review changed terms before another confirmation. |
| Settlement | Recording the final result and completing the product's accounting for it. |
| Claim | Collecting a payable settled outcome. |
| Void | A contract-defined cancellation/refund result, such as an eligible missing-oracle-answer case. An ordinary losing call is not void. |
| tUSDC | Test collateral used by the current testnet app. |
| STT / gas | The testnet token and transaction fee used to make chain changes. |
| Trading Balance / Vault | Funds held in the EventVault for supported trading and grants, separately from wallet funds. |
| Grant | Permission for a named key or runner to buy under a specified budget, limits and expiry. |
| Revoke | Stop future use of a grant. It does not undo positions already opened. |
| Browser key | A key stored on this device that can perform actions you authorized within limits. |
| Sponsor | A configured service that may pay eligible transaction fees. |
| Strategy | Published rules or an AI brief, runner address and limits for supported automated calls. |
| Runner / agent | The process and wallet that read a strategy and attempt permitted orders. |
| Envelope | The strategy's outer limits. Followers can apply stricter grants. |
| Hold | A deliberate decision or gate result to send no order. |
| Dry read | One real draft AI read, with no order and no stored decision. |
| Playbook | A creator's public explanation of a strategy. |
| Reserve | A contract pool that supports a particular product's exposure or promised conditional payout. |
| Boost / leverage | Additional exposure funded by the leverage reserve, with an early knockout condition. |
| Knockout | An early close condition for a boosted position. |
| Range | A call that a final price will be inside or outside chosen boundaries. |
| Moonshot | A Long/Short call against a solved target for the chosen reach multiple. |
| Parlay leg | One Window-and-side condition inside an all-or-nothing multi-leg ticket. |
| Duel pot | The extra amount contested in a Ranked match, separate from each player's card trades. |
| Seed / commitment | Inputs and a prior commitment used to reproduce a draw or game course and detect later changes. |
| Take | A signed public market opinion. Posting it does not buy a position. |
| PWA | An installable web app launched from an icon while still relying on its web services. |
For a visual explanation of how the pieces connect, see the architecture map. For where money moves, see balances.
Source notes
This guide follows the application code reviewed on 2026-09-07. Links point to that reviewed commit and require repository access. GitHub may show 404 if you are signed out or do not have access.