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# Overview

**Uniocean** is a skill-based price forecasting platform where users predict the exact future price of assets at a specific time.

Supported asset categories include:

* Cryptocurrencies
* Commodities
* Forex pairs

Users submit an exact forecast before a market locks. When the market settles, the actual price is retrieved from an independent oracle and all forecasts are ranked based on accuracy.

## Skill-Based Forecasting

Uniocean is designed around forecasting skill.

Instead of asking whether an event will happen, Uniocean asks users to forecast an exact future price.

Example:

```
Market: BTC/USD — 1 Hour
User Forecast: 96,342.12 USD
Settlement Price: 96,310.00 USD
Ranking Basis: Distance from settlement price
```

The closer the prediction is to the settlement price, the better the rank.

## Why Uniocean Is Different

Many prediction products use binary outcomes. Uniocean focuses on precise price forecasting.

| Traditional Prediction | Uniocean Forecasting        |
| ---------------------- | --------------------------- |
| Yes/no outcome         | Exact price forecast        |
| Outcome-based          | Accuracy-based              |
| Limited precision      | Every price point matters   |
| May feel binary        | Skill and strategy oriented |

## Gasless Experience

Uniocean uses meta-transactions so users never pay blockchain gas fees. When a user submits a forecast, the platform signs and relays the transaction on their behalf. This removes the friction of managing gas tokens, approving contracts, or worrying about network congestion.

Forecasts are batched and submitted together to the blockchain within milliseconds, reducing cost while preserving immutability.

## Multi-Chain Architecture

Uniocean operates across multiple blockchain networks simultaneously. A single user experience spans multiple chains, with the platform handling all chain-specific details in the background. Users interact with one interface regardless of which network processes their forecast.

## Real-Time Ranking

While a market is live, rankings update continuously as the asset price moves. The platform streams price data from the Pyth oracle and recalculates positions every second. Users can watch their rank change in real time via WebSocket-powered live rankings.

## Core Principles

### Skill

Success depends on research, market understanding, timing, and forecasting accuracy.

### Transparency

Forecasts, settlements, and reward data are designed to be verifiable. Every settlement generates an audit report with full ranking data, Merkle proofs, and validator signatures.

### Simplicity

Users do not need deep crypto experience. The platform handles wallet creation, gas fees, reward claiming, and blockchain interactions behind the scenes.

### Fairness

Markets use defined rules for ranking, settlement, cancellation, and reward distribution. Rankings are deterministic — the same inputs always produce the same output, and results can be independently verified.

### Security

Settlement results are validated by multiple independent nodes before being recorded on-chain. A quorum of validators must agree on the result before any rewards are distributed.

### Community

Referral commissions reward users for helping grow the platform.

## Platform Journey

```mermaid
flowchart LR
    A[Sign In] --> B[Fund Wallet]
    B --> C[Browse Markets]
    C --> D[Submit Forecast]
    D --> E[Track Rankings]
    E --> F[Market Settles]
    F --> G[Reward or No Payout]
    G --> H[Withdraw or Reuse Funds]
```

## Related Pages

* [How Uniocean Works](/forecast-platform/introduction/how-it-works.md)
* [Key Concepts](/forecast-platform/introduction/key-concepts.md)
* [Creating an Account](/forecast-platform/getting-started/creating-account.md)