Futuur
Global play-money + real-money markets
- Rating
- 4.1 / 5
- Type
- Crypto, Play-money
- KYC
- Light KYC
- US access
- No
- Markets
- Sports, Politics, Economics, Crypto
- Fees
- Commission on net winnings (real-money); free play-money mode
- Minimum deposit
- None (~€0.01 floor)
- Payout
- Instant (crypto)
- Payment methods
- Crypto, Play-money
- Mobile app
- No
- Regions
- Global, LATAM
- Regulation
- Curaçao-licensed; offers both a free play-money and a real-money crypto mode.
About Futuur
Futuur runs two separate modes under one roof, and knowing which one you are in matters. There is a free play-money track where nothing is ever actually at risk, and a real-money track that settles in crypto, and the platform lets people move between the two rather than forcing a single choice at signup. Category coverage spans sports, politics, economics and crypto, with a stated emphasis on Latin America layered onto its broader global reach, which is a somewhat different regional focus than most crypto-native competitors advertise. Letting a user pick a mode rather than locking them into one is a fairly unusual piece of product design in this category.
On the real-money side, Futuur holds a Curacao license and charges a commission on net winnings rather than a flat per-trade fee, the more common structure among exchange-style prediction markets. Identity verification is described as light rather than full, funding runs through crypto rather than card or bank rails, and the entry point is unusually low, with a floor around a single euro cent, letting someone test the market with essentially nothing at stake financially. Payouts on winning real-money positions are instant, which at least removes one of the usual complaints leveled at regulated, bank-rail platforms.
It is not available to US users, and there is no confirmed app in either major app store, so access today runs entirely through the browser. For someone unsure whether they even want real financial exposure to a prediction market, the free play-money mode is a genuinely useful on-ramp, a way to see how the mechanics and pricing work before deciding whether the real-money, commission-based track is worth using at all. That two-tier structure, effectively a demo account sitting permanently alongside the real one, is not something most competitors offer in quite the same way.