Octagon Trust Index

Trust Scores for every Kalshi and Polymarket market

Know before you bet. One Trust Score, 0 to 100, on every open Kalshi and Polymarket market. Built from order books, price history, and settlement rules. Weighted in the open. Versioned forever.

Octagon Trust Index Kalshi Polymarket 70 Good

How it's scored

Two questions. One number.

Can anyone rig it? Can you trade it?

Integrity. 80% of the score.

Can anyone rig it?

Does someone control the outcome? Does a small circle know first? Will it settle the way the rules say? Ten screens run on every market. One flag becomes a sentence in your report, not a footnote.

Integrity sets the ceiling. No amount of liquidity buys back a market someone else controls.

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Trade quality. 20% of the score.

Can you trade it?

A fair market you can't exit is still a trap. We measure the depth at your fill price, whether moves carry real volume, and whether the rules are clear enough to size against.

Trade quality can lower a score. It can never cap one.

See the full methodology

Trading strategies

Built for how you trade.

Six traders. Six rules. Three steps each.

The news trader

Moved before the news? Someone knew.

Sort your watchlist by Trust Score. If Info fairness is flagged, you're already late. Size by band and skip High Risk.

Screen Info fairness

The spread trader

Depth you can't fill is decoration.

Stick to Deep or Tradeable liquidity. Unconfirmed moves will run you over, and a severe flag means walk away.

Screen Trade quality

The longshot buyer

A 5¢ contract someone controls is a donation.

Buy tails only where integrity holds, and read the rules before you size. Big size with no tape behind it? Ask why.

Screen Market integrity

The cross-venue trader

The venue that moves first knows.

Compare scores across venues. The timing flag tells you who leads, so check liquidity on the leg you'll exit.

Compare venues

The systematic trader

A score without a version is an opinion.

Pull scores by API or MCP, gate entries on the label and the caps that fired, and re-pull every hour.

Pull the API

The desk analyst

Cite the sentence, not the number.

Read the verdict and the primary risk, export with the disclosure included, and link the methodology.

Read the methodology

How it stays honest

The honesty rules.

Three promises every score keeps.

  • We never guess.

    Missing data drops out of the weights and lowers stated confidence.

  • Priors say so.

    A pillar with no applicable screen is labeled a structural prior on the card.

  • One computation.

    Scored once, server-side. The report, the exports, and this page show the same payload.

Questions. Answers.

What is the Octagon Trust Index?

A 0 to 100 Trust Score on every open Kalshi and Polymarket market. It measures whether a prediction market can be rigged and whether you can trade it, across 4 pillars: market integrity, info fairness, resolution quality, trade quality.

How is a Trust Score calculated?

4 pillar scores, blended by published weights, then capped. Market integrity 30% · Info fairness 30% · Resolution quality 20% · Trade quality 20%. Market integrity, Info fairness, or Resolution quality below 30 caps the total near 40–50. A severe activity flag caps the total at 30. Trade quality lowers the blend but never caps it.

What does a Trust Score of 40 mean?

High Risk. The scale: 0–29 Avoid, 30–49 High Risk, 50–69 Caution, 70–84 Good, 85–100 Strong. The report names the pillar and the screen responsible.

Does the Trust Index detect insider trading on Kalshi and Polymarket?

It detects the conditions and the footprints. Whether a small group could know first. Whether price moved before the news. Whether a longshot flipped ahead of a scheduled reveal. It describes contracts, not people, and never certifies a market clean.

Why does a liquid market sometimes score low?

Because integrity outweighs convenience. Trade quality is 20% of the score and never caps it. A market whose subject controls the outcome stays capped no matter how deep the book.

How often are scores updated?

Every open market recomputes on a rolling 24-hour cycle, oldest first. Every report shows its timestamp and marks itself stale after 24 hours.

Is the method the same on Kalshi and Polymarket?

Same pillars, same weights, same caps. Fees, tick sizes, and settlement mechanics enter through the measurements, so the same event can score differently on each venue.

Is the Trust Index investment advice?

No. It is research on observable market risk, published for traders. Not investment advice. Not a compliance product.

Check the score.
Then place the trade.

Every open Kalshi and Polymarket market, scored and explained.