An onchain prediction market on the Base network, funded from a crypto wallet, closed to United States traders.
Limitless is an onchain prediction market on Base where you trade Yes and No shares with USDC from your own wallet. Its own terms bar United States traders, so US readers cannot use it.
Order book takers pay a buy fee of 0.40 to 3.00 percent and a sell fee of 0.42 to 1.50 percent, with no fee on resting limit orders, per Limitless fee docs as of June 2026.
It is an unregulated onchain venue operated from Panama and not registered with the CFTC. There is no exchange safety net, so you carry full counterparty and smart contract risk.
28 June 2026 by Fredrik Filipsson, Editor. Legality, fees and availability checked against the Limitless Terms of Service and fee docs in June 2026.
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Limitless is a prediction market that runs entirely onchain on Base, an Ethereum layer two network, using USDC as collateral. You connect a crypto wallet, buy Yes or No shares on a central limit order book, and a winning share settles at one dollar. It reports more than one billion dollars in cumulative volume and describes itself as the largest prediction market on Base, per its documentation as of June 2026.
The most important fact for many readers is who cannot use it. Limitless is operated by Street Chow Inc., a Panamanian company, and its Terms of Service, last updated 19 June 2026, list the United States of America among the jurisdictions it does not offer trading to. It is not registered with the CFTC. For that reason we describe how it works but place no open account link, and US readers should treat it as a reference point only.
Limitless’s own terms, updated 19 June 2026, list the United States among the jurisdictions it does not offer trading to. Do not attempt to use it from the US. See US legal alternatives below.
Availability summary based on the Limitless Terms of Service, as of 19 June 2026. This is general information, not legal advice. Always confirm your own eligibility before participating.
Limitless is a prediction market built entirely onchain. Instead of an account with a broker, you connect a crypto wallet and trade on smart contracts deployed on Base, an Ethereum layer two network operated to keep transaction costs low and settlement fast. Each market lets you buy Yes or No shares on a stated question, a winning share redeems for one USDC after the market resolves, and a losing share is worth nothing. Before resolution, one Yes share plus one No share can always be redeemed for one unit of collateral, which is currently USDC, per the Limitless documentation as of June 2026.
The venue is operated by Street Chow Inc., a Panamanian company, per its Terms of Service updated 19 June 2026. It reports more than one billion dollars in cumulative trading volume and describes itself as the largest prediction market on Base. Those are the platform’s own figures, and because the chain is public, onchain activity can be independently checked on analytics dashboards, which is one genuine advantage of an onchain venue over a closed exchange.
At its core Limitless runs a central limit order book, the same mechanism we explain in order books and how they work, with separate Yes and No books for each market. It also offers an automated market maker mode for some markets, where you trade against a pooled formula rather than a queue of orders. That dual model shapes both the experience and the fees, which we come to shortly.
Compiled from the Limitless documentation and Terms of Service, read June 2026. Figures such as volume are the platform’s own.
A market on Limitless poses a question, for example whether Bitcoin will close above a given level by a deadline. You buy Yes shares if you think it will happen and No shares if you think it will not. Each share is priced between roughly one cent and ninety nine cents, and that price reads as an implied probability, as we cover in reading prices as implied probability. Buy a Yes share at fifteen cents and, if the event happens, it pays one dollar, which is the high payout that early conviction in a low probability outcome can earn. If the event does not happen, the share expires worthless.
Because Limitless runs an order book, you can place a market order for instant execution at the best available price, or a limit order to set your own price and wait. Market orders are the taker side and pay a fee. Limit orders rest on the book, add liquidity, and pay nothing, and the platform runs a maker rebate and liquidity reward programme on top, per its docs as of June 2026. Markets come in short cycles, hourly, daily and weekly, as well as longer custom questions, which makes the venue feel fast paced compared with a slow moving election market.
Resolution relies on an oracle, a designated third party data source named for each market. Once that source determines the outcome, the result is final and shares are redeemed onchain. There is no central clearinghouse standing behind the trade, so settlement is only as reliable as the smart contracts and the oracle, a point we return to under regulation and risk.
Fees on Limitless fall only on takers, the orders that fill immediately against the book or the pool. Resting limit orders pay nothing. For automated market maker trades the fee is a flat 0.40 percent. For order book trades the fee is dynamic and depends on where the price sits, per the Limitless fee documentation as of June 2026. The buy fee starts at 3.00 percent on low probability shares and falls toward 0.40 percent as the price climbs, while the sell fee peaks at 1.50 percent around the fifty cent midpoint and tapers toward the extremes. The structure is designed to reward early conviction and discourage churning near the point of greatest uncertainty.
| Trade type | Fee | Paid in | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Limit order (maker) | No fee | n/a | Resting orders add liquidity; rebates and rewards available |
| AMM trade | Flat 0.40% | Collateral | Some promotional markets reduced or zero |
| Order book buy (taker) | 0.40% to 3.00% | Outcome tokens | Highest on low probability shares, lowest near 99c |
| Order book sell (taker) | 0.42% to 1.50% | USDC | Peaks at the 50c midpoint, lower toward the extremes |
Source: Limitless fee documentation at docs.limitless.exchange, read June 2026. Fees can change at the operator’s discretion, so confirm the current rate in the app. Onchain network gas costs on Base are separate and small. For a cross platform view see our cross platform fees table.
Shape of the Limitless order book taker fee, drawn from the published fee curve, as of June 2026. The buy fee is highest on cheap, low probability shares and the sell fee peaks at the fifty cent midpoint. Limit orders pay no fee at all.
There is no bank transfer and no card deposit in the core Limitless flow. You connect a compatible crypto wallet, hold USDC on the Base network, and trade directly from it, per the Limitless docs as of June 2026. The platform supports more than one wallet type, including options that smooth the onchain experience for newer users, but the underlying model is the same: your funds sit in your wallet or in the market smart contracts, not in a custodial account the operator controls on your behalf. Withdrawal means moving USDC back to your own wallet address.
This has two sides. The advantage is self custody and onchain transparency: there is no withdrawal queue at a broker and you can verify balances on the chain. The cost is responsibility. If you lose your wallet keys or sign a malicious transaction, there is no support desk that can reverse it, a risk we cover in funding and withdrawing safely and platform custody of funds. You also need a small amount of network gas on Base to transact, which is separate from trading fees.
Limitless leans toward fast, frequently recurring markets. Its documentation highlights crypto price questions, with hourly, daily and weekly cycles on assets such as Bitcoin, alongside markets on stocks, macroeconomic releases, and broader world events. Multi outcome markets, where only one result can win, are handled through a category structure the platform calls Negrisk, and users can also create their own markets, with a creator fee applying to user generated questions. The recurring short cycle markets are the venue’s signature and a large part of why its volume is concentrated in crypto.
If your interest is mainly in crypto price action, the depth on those flagship Bitcoin markets is the relevant thing to check, and our crypto and Bitcoin markets guide explains how these contracts behave across venues. As always, a market that looks liquid on the headline can be thin a few cents away from the top of the book, so read the depth before you size a trade.
We did not open an account or place a trade on Limitless. Its own terms do not offer trading to United States traders, and we do not circumvent a platform’s geographic rules. Instead, on 28 June 2026 we read the published Terms of Service dated 19 June 2026, the fee documentation, the order book and market resolution pages, and the wallet and security docs, and we cross checked the volume and availability claims against the platform’s own pages. Every fee, network and legality statement on this page is drawn from those primary sources and dated to June 2026.
Because Limitless lives on the chain, its security story is different from a regulated broker. The platform publishes the onchain addresses of its core smart contracts on Base and maintains a security page describing the audits of that code, per its documentation as of June 2026. That openness is real and useful: anyone can inspect the contracts and the public record of trades. It is also the limit of the protection on offer. There is no deposit insurance, no regulator to appeal to, and no central party that can claw back a transaction once it is signed and confirmed.
Three risks deserve naming. The first is smart contract risk: even audited code can contain bugs, and a flaw in a settlement contract can be costly. The second is oracle risk: each market depends on a designated data source to decide the outcome, and a wrong, delayed, or disputed resolution falls on holders rather than on a clearinghouse. The third is your own key security: self custody means that a lost seed phrase or a signature on a malicious transaction can drain a wallet with no recourse. None of these is unique to Limitless, but all of them sit with you rather than with an exchange.
The practical takeaway is to size positions to a venue with no safety net, keep only what you are actively trading in a connected wallet, and read each market’s named oracle before you commit. Onchain transparency lets you check more than a closed exchange ever would. It does not remove risk, it relocates it onto you.
Limitless is an unregulated onchain venue. It is operated by Street Chow Inc., a Panamanian company, and its Terms of Service, last updated 19 June 2026, set out arbitration in Panama City under International Chamber of Commerce rules and the laws of Panama. It is not registered with the United States Commodity Futures Trading Commission and is not a designated contract market, which means it does not carry the oversight, segregated funds rules, or dispute framework that a regulated US exchange such as Kalshi operates under. Our guide to how regulated exchanges differ from offshore explains why that distinction matters for your money.
On availability the terms are explicit. Limitless is not available to users in Russia, Belarus, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Syria, or the Crimea, Donetsk and Luhansk regions, and it is not available for trading to the United States of America or the Republic of China, per the Terms of Service as of 19 June 2026. Eligibility also requires that you are at least eighteen, or older where your local law sets a higher age, and that you are not on relevant sanctions lists. For everyone outside the barred jurisdictions, access is offered subject to your own local law, and the terms place the responsibility on you to confirm that your use is lawful where you live.
For United States readers the position is not contested, it is clear: the platform does not offer trading to you. Beyond the platform’s own rule, the broader legal status of unregulated onchain prediction markets for US persons is itself unsettled, which is one more reason we keep US readers on regulated venues. Whatever your location, treat the onchain model as carrying full counterparty, oracle and smart contract risk, as set out in counterparty and exchange risk.
Taken on its own terms, Limitless is a capable onchain order book with a clear niche in fast, recurring crypto markets, low maker costs, and the transparency that comes from settling on a public chain. For a crypto native trader outside the barred jurisdictions who already lives in a wallet and understands self custody, it is a coherent option, provided they confirm their own local law first and size their risk to an unregulated venue.
It does not suit a United States trader, who simply cannot use it, nor anyone who wants the safety net of a regulated exchange, fiat funding, or a support desk that can intervene if something goes wrong. Our illustrative score of 62 reflects that split: solid mechanics and competitive fees, pulled down by the absence of regulation and the closed door to US and several other markets. The score is an editorial example, not an audited rating, and it is never a recommendation to trade.
Five equal parts of twenty points. The figures are an illustrative editorial example of how we weigh a venue, not an audited rating, and never a recommendation to trade.
Unregulated onchain venue operated from Panama, not registered with the CFTC, no exchange safety net or segregated funds rule.
No fee on resting limit orders, a flat 0.40 percent on AMM trades, and a transparent published taker curve, per fee docs June 2026.
Self custody from a crypto wallet in USDC on Base with onchain withdrawals, but no fiat on ramp and full key responsibility.
Strong, frequently recurring crypto markets and reported volume above one billion dollars cumulatively, concentrated in crypto.
Open in many countries subject to local law, but closed to the United States, the Republic of China and several sanctioned regions.
Event contracts can lose money, and an unregulated onchain venue adds counterparty, oracle and smart contract risk on top of market risk. Trade only with money you can afford to lose, never with funds you need, and step away if it stops feeling like a considered decision rather than a habit.
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We place no open account link for Limitless because it does not offer trading to United States readers, and we never send anyone to a venue they cannot legally use. If you are a US trader looking for a regulated alternative, start with the platforms below and confirm your own eligibility before doing anything.
No. Limitless’s own Terms of Service, last updated 19 June 2026, list the United States of America among the jurisdictions it does not offer trading to. It is an onchain venue not registered with the CFTC, so US persons should not attempt to use it, and we do not link to it for US readers.
Limitless is a prediction market that runs onchain on Base, an Ethereum layer two network, using USDC as collateral. You trade Yes and No shares on a central limit order book, and it also offers an automated market maker mode for some markets, per its documentation as of June 2026.
Per Limitless fee documentation as of June 2026, automated market maker trades carry a flat 0.40 percent fee, while order book takers pay a buy fee of 0.40 to 3.00 percent and a sell fee of 0.42 to 1.50 percent that varies with the price. Limit orders that rest on the book pay no fee.
You connect a compatible crypto wallet and trade with USDC on the Base network rather than depositing fiat currency. There is no traditional account or bank transfer in the core flow, so funding and withdrawal happen onchain to and from your own wallet, per the Limitless docs as of June 2026.
Limitless is operated by Street Chow Inc., a Panamanian company, per its Terms of Service updated 19 June 2026, and it is not registered with the United States Commodity Futures Trading Commission. It is an unregulated onchain venue, so the usual exchange protections do not apply and you carry full counterparty and smart contract risk.
Per its terms updated 19 June 2026, Limitless is not available to users in Russia, Belarus, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Syria, or the Crimea, Donetsk and Luhansk regions, and is not available for trading to the United States of America or the Republic of China. Elsewhere it is offered subject to your local law.
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