Sponsio

The Sponsio Score

Belief Score

Belief Score is the foundation of the weekly competition. It measures successful participation in resolved markets, and it counts for every wallet that trades — with a Sponsio account or without one.

Every market that resolves during the week creates one scoring event. If the belief you backed did not become reality, that event scores zero. If it became reality:

Belief Score (event) = Multiplier × (Holdings + 4 × Fees Paid)

Three quantities, all read automatically:

  • Holdings — the dollar value of your position in the winning Belief Coin at the protocol's snapshot. Wallets are people: protocol contracts and dust positions below one cent never score. Once the event reaches its definitive outcome — extra time, penalties, a knockout, a called result — the protocol takes one snapshot at a random moment within the following hour. Because that moment is unpredictable, no one can time an entry or exit around it; you simply hold the belief you trust.
  • Fees Paid — the trading fees you personally paid trading that coin between its previous result (or Monday, whichever is later) and this result — a flat five percent of the volume you traded, valued in dollars at the same snapshot moment as Holdings. Two games in one week never count the same trade twice. Active believers who traded the story all the way to the whistle earn more than silent ones — and this measure cannot be gamed, because generating it costs exactly what it credits: every fee you pay is real and flows into the same Weekly Reward Pool everyone is competing for. Each dollar of fees counts like four dollars held.
  • Multiplier — the boldness of your belief: one divided by its market probability, frozen at the moment the event begins. Backing an underdog at 25% doubles up over backing a favorite at 50%. Beliefs with no public probability market simply use a multiplier of 1.

Resolution rules are simple and final:

  • A market scores once, at its official result. After a market resolves, trading it earns nothing — the story is over.
  • A draw counts for both sides at half the multiplier: the belief didn't win, but it didn't die.
  • A cancelled or unverifiable event counts for no one. Team coins simply live on toward their next fixture.

Every successful event adds up:

Belief Score (week) = Σ Belief Scores of events resolved that week

An event credits the week its RESULT lands in — hold a belief for two weeks and it scores in the week reality answers. There is no limit to how many successful beliefs you can accumulate.

The model is universal — a football match, a championship, a boxing fight, an election, a technology release. Only the belief changes. Participants never optimize around formulas: trade the beliefs you agree with, hold what you trust, and the protocol handles the rest.