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An exchange for attention.

Every day the internet decides what matters — a trailer drops, a tournament nears, a founder goes viral. Motion Markets lets you take a position on that. Go long when something is gaining cultural relevance, short when it's fading. You're not betting on an outcome. You're trading how much the world cares.

How it works

From real attention to a tradeable price

Two things move underneath every market: the attention the world is actually paying, and the price traders are willing to pay for it. Here's how they connect.

01

Markets, not bets

Each market tracks the attention around a topic or person — the FIFA World Cup, GTA VI, a Crypto Twitter persona. No resolution date, no expiry. A market runs as long as people care.

02

An index of real attention

Behind each market is an attention index built from public signals — mentions and engagement across X, Reddit and Google Trends — measured against that topic's own recent average. So a market reads “hotter or colder than usual for itself,” not just loud versus quiet.

03

The index becomes the price

The price you trade is that attention index, plus a small premium that shifts when people buy or sell — going long nudges it up, shorting nudges it down. But the premium fades back to the index continuously, so the price always tracks real attention. When attention rises, the price rises with it — even if no one else is trading. You're trading the attention, not the order flow.

04

You profit by being early

Go long before attention rises, short before it fades — you profit from the move in attention itself, not from who trades after you. Closing a winning position takes a 3% fee. Opening costs nothing, and losses are never charged a fee.

Where it fits

How it compares

Prediction markets resolve. Memecoins and stocks track price. Motion Markets prices a different question entirely — continuously.

Motion MarketsPolymarket / KalshiPump.funRobinhood
What you tradeAttention & cultural relevance of a topic or personThe probability of a specific event outcomeNewly launched memecoinsStocks, options, ETFs, crypto
Does it resolve?No — continuous, no expiryYes — pays out when the event resolvesNo fixed resolutionNo — you hold the asset
What moves the priceThe attention index — trades add a small premium that fadesBelief about how likely the outcome isBuy/sell pressure only — no underlying signalCompany fundamentals & broader markets
You win byBeing early to a rise or fall in attentionBeing right about the outcomeTiming the pump and the exitLong-term asset appreciation
Underlying signalReal-time attention data (X, Reddit, Google Trends)Real-world eventsNoneReal companies & assets
Time horizonMinutes to weeks — as long as it's relevantUntil the event dateOften minutes to hoursDays to years
Fees3% on net wins only — nothing to open, nothing on lossesTrading / settlement fees varyPer-trade fee + spreadCommission-free equities; spreads elsewhere
In one line
Prediction markets ask “will it happen?” Memecoins and stocks ask “will the price go up?” Motion Markets asks a different question — “is the world about to care more, or less?” — and prices it continuously against real attention.
Key facts

The essentials

Settlement
No expiry — positions stay open until you close
Fees
3% on net wins only
Pricing
Tracks a live attention index
The anchor
Price hugs the attention index — a small premium fades back, funding keeps it honest (±5%)
Data sources
X, Reddit & Google Trends
Leverage
None — no liquidation cascades
Private beta. Trading runs on paper — a $1,000 virtual balance, no real money — while the live attention oracle rolls out. Markets, prices and activity shown during beta may be simulated.
Motion Markets · long or short the attention economy.
For informational and entertainment purposes. Not investment advice, and not a regulated securities or derivatives exchange.
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