Market games: casino games where the market decides the outcome.
The market is the game.
A market game is a casino game whose outcome is set by the movement of a price, live or synthetic, instead of a reel, a card or a random crash curve. The player makes a short call on where the price goes, the game settles on the published price path in seconds, and the payout is a fixed multiplier with the house edge priced in. Market Games™ builds them for licensed operators, crypto casinos and aggregators.
Four things called "market games", and the one this page is about.
The phrase is shared by four unrelated things. In game theory a market game is the Shapley–Shubik model of trade between players. In US classrooms The Stock Market Game is a virtual-portfolio competition with no payout. Consumer app stores list stock market games, simulators that let you paper-trade. None of them is casino content.
In iGaming, a market game is a certified casino game that uses a price as its source of truth. It keeps the economics of a casino game, fixed stake, fixed odds, published RTP, and replaces the random reel with something players already follow: the price of Bitcoin, gold, oil or a sports club index. The loop is the speed of a crash game, two to five seconds a round, with a reason to watch the screen that a crash curve cannot give.
A market game is also not a prediction market. Kalshi and Polymarket are venues where traders buy and sell event contracts against each other. A market game has a house, a paytable and a certification report, and it is distributed to operators through the same integrations as a slot.
Three ways to play a price, plus leverage.
Every Market Games title is one of these mechanics wrapped in a market category and a UI built for it.
Tap the range
Multiplier boxes float over the chart at different price ranges and durations. Tap one to commit a stake; it pays the instant the price path touches the box. Zoom to reshape the odds. The mechanic behind Tap Markets™ (synthetic) and Tap Trading (real BTC/ETH index).
Tap Markets™ →Up or down
One decision per round: will the index finish higher or lower than the start price? Fixed odds locked at acceptance, rounds of 5 to 30 seconds. The mechanic behind Tap Up/Down and Tap Predict, both launching soon on the live index.
Tap Up/Down →Race
Several indices line up and race over a 15 to 60 second window; the strongest live performance wins. Players back a runner at fixed odds locked at the gun. The mechanic behind Crypto Race™, racebook-style play for sportsbook audiences.
Crypto Race™ →Leverage
Amplify a position on the real index with isolated margin, so every position stands alone and nothing can liquidate the account. The mechanic behind 1000x, built for crypto-native players who already trade.
1000x →Same game on the screen. Three engines underneath.
The interface never changes. What produces the price path does, and the operator picks the engine its licence and lobby need.
| Engine | Price source | Fairness proof | Who runs it |
|---|---|---|---|
| Synthetic | A provably fair RNG generates the path, anchored to independent market reference feeds so it looks and moves like the real asset | Committed seed, published mathematics, every accepted round replayable end to end; fixed RTP of 94 to 95 percent reference | Licensed casinos in markets that certify RNG content. Integrates and certifies like a slot |
| Hybrid OTC | A market reference with an OTC pricing layer, scoped per jurisdiction | Reference feed plus published pricing rules; the operator holds no market exposure | Regulated markets that accept a market reference but not a live exchange price |
| Real market | An independently calculated composite BTC/ETH index of approved exchanges: signed, timestamped ticks, no noise added | Rate Integrity: SHA-256 chained ticks, quorum and stale-tick rules, bad data voids the round | Crypto casinos, sportsbooks and hybrids |
Details for operators, including the division of labour and the economics, are on the operators page. Integration paths are on the integration page.
How a market game stays fair when the outcome is a price.
Casino fairness has always been a certificate: a lab tests the random number generator and the player is asked to trust the badge. A market game changes the question. When the outcome is a price, the player should be able to see the price, the exact tick their bet ran on, and proof that nobody rewrote it afterwards.
The synthetic engine answers with the familiar provably fair toolkit. The live engine answers with Rate Integrity: every price update is fingerprinted with SHA-256 and chained to the ones before it, every bet names its tick, outlier and stale ticks are filtered against a minimum source quorum, and a round with bad data is voided rather than repaired silently. Anyone can recompute the hashes in the browser. The reasoning is set out in Built to be verified.
The RTP in both engines comes from probability and the paytable, never from the feed. Each box, round or race has a modelled hit probability for its range and duration, and the payout is set below fair odds by the house edge.
Gambling or trading? Gambling, by structure.
The same screen can be a derivative in one jurisdiction and a game in another. What places a market game on the gaming side is its structure: the player holds no asset, cannot lose more than the stake, takes no leverage against the house's balance sheet, and plays fixed odds set by a paytable. What makes it look like trading is only the source of the outcome.
That is why the engine choice matters. A regulator that certifies RNG content gets the synthetic engine and a certification report that reads like a slot's. A regulator that accepts a market reference gets the live or hybrid engine with the price pipeline in scope of the test. The operator keeps custody, KYC, payments and compliance in every case. Our analysis of where blockchain helps and where it does not is in When trading meets gaming.
A category, not a tile.
Market games are not slots, not live dealer and not quite crash, so they work best with their own lobby tab: one tile per market (crypto, metals, energy, sports) on the synthetic row, and a Live Markets row for the real-price titles. The walkthrough, with the tiles an operator's lobby team receives, is in A Market Games category in the lobby; the tiles themselves are on the lobby demo page.
The player segment is new to most operators: people who follow prices, crypto natives, and crash players who want a reason behind the curve. Rounds of two to five seconds give the strongest session-length driver in the portfolio, and the house edge is priced into every payout at commit time, so the operator carries zero market exposure.
Who else makes market games, and what is different here.
The idea is not ours alone, and this page would be less useful if it pretended otherwise. BC.GAME launched a first-party tap-the-multiplier title in September 2025. Bitblox Games supplies up-or-down games on live Bitcoin prices through aggregators. Evolution's Stock Market is a game show on an RNG index. CreedRoomz added a live-dealer crypto market game in 2026. Our research piece The market is becoming the game maps 47 companies across crash, prediction markets, trading and iGaming.
What Market Games™ brings is the combination: a switchable outcome engine (real, hybrid OTC or synthetic) under one interface, a verifiable proof layer on the live engine, five themed synthetic titles that share one wallet and one back office with the live titles, and distribution through direct API, white-label and aggregators including REEVO.
Ten market games, two engines.
Tap Markets™ Live
The flagship. Tap the box on a synthetic price chart; provably fair RNG, fixed RTP. Ships as five titles: Tap Markets™, Tap BTC, Tap GOLD, Tap OIL and Tap Sports Clubs.
Explore →Live Markets line Real prices
Tap Trading and 1000x live now; Tap Predict and Tap Up/Down launching soon; Crypto Race™ on request. All settle on the real BTC/ETH composite index with Rate Integrity proof.
Crypto price prediction games →See it played
Fifty narrated seconds of Tap Markets and a real-price session of Tap Trading. Real engines, nothing mocked up.
Demo videos →Market games, answered.
What is a market game in iGaming?
A market game is a casino game whose outcome is decided by the movement of a price, live or synthetic, instead of a reel, a card or a crash curve. The player makes a short-horizon call on where the price goes, the game settles on the published price path, and the payout is a fixed multiplier priced with the house edge built in.
How is a market game different from a stock-market simulator or a prediction market?
A stock-market simulator is an education product with a virtual portfolio and no payout. A prediction market sells event contracts between traders, with the platform as a venue. A market game is casino content: fixed odds set by the house, rounds of seconds, and a certified RTP, distributed to operators like any other game.
Is a market game gambling or trading?
In every jurisdiction we work in it is regulated as gambling. The player holds no asset, takes no leverage against the house's balance sheet and cannot lose more than the stake. What makes the product look like trading is the source of the outcome; what makes it a game is the fixed-odds, fixed-stake structure. Our article on the regulatory grey zone covers the boundary in depth.
How can a casino game settle on a real price and still be certified?
Certification tests the game logic, the paytable and the integrity of the input. For the synthetic engine the input is a provably fair RNG with a committed seed. For the live engine the input is an independently calculated composite index with signed, timestamped ticks, quorum rules and automatic voiding of rounds with bad data. Labs test the same things they test for a slot, plus the price pipeline.
Where does the RTP come from when the outcome is a market price?
From probability and the paytable, never from the feed. Each multiplier box or up/down round has a modelled hit probability for its range and duration; the payout is set below the fair odds by the house edge. The reference RTP of the Tap titles is 94 to 95 percent.
Are market games provably fair?
The synthetic titles are provably fair in the usual sense: committed seed, published mathematics, every accepted round replayable end to end. The live titles add Rate Integrity: every price update is SHA-256 fingerprinted and chained, every bet names its tick, and anyone can recompute the hashes in the browser.
Can an operator white-label or aggregate market games, and how long does integration take?
Yes. Market Games titles ship through direct API, Reverse API, white-label, widget, Telegram and aggregators, including the REEVO platform. A standard integration is live in one to two weeks.
Which engine should an operator choose?
It depends on the licence. Licensed casinos in markets that certify RNG content take the synthetic engine, which integrates like a slot. Crypto casinos and sportsbooks that want real prices take the live engine. The hybrid OTC engine covers jurisdictions that accept a market reference but require the operator to hold no market exposure.
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