A window opens
Every five minutes a new question: will Bitcoin be higher or lower than the price the window started at? The price to beat is fixed the moment it opens and drawn across the chart.
iPhone · TestFlight
Call the next five minutes.
Bitcoin moves every second and settles every five minutes. Tick Blip is the game built on that — real market prices, real order books, and money that stays in the game.
Free to play. Nothing in it is real money.
Bitcoin · 5 minutes left
$113,240to beat $113,180
▲ ABOVE63.0¢bid 61.0¢ · ask 63.0¢
▼ BELOW38.0¢bid 36.0¢ · ask 38.0¢
Five minutes, start to finish
No positions to manage for a week and no charts to stare at overnight. A question opens, you answer it, and it is settled before you have put the phone down.
You call it
Buy the side you believe at what it costs. A contract at 63.0¢ pays $1 if it comes off, which is the market saying it is about 63% likely — and the price moves as people disagree.
It settles itself
When the window closes, the market’s own published result decides it. Right pays $1 a contract, wrong pays nothing, and you can sell out early at whatever the book will pay.
What is inside
Enough of a game to keep coming back to, and enough of a market to be worth learning.
A league of twenty
Each week you are placed in a room of players and measured against them alone. The top few go up a rung, the bottom few go down, and the room does not change once the week has started.
Streaks worth keeping
A day counts when you make a prediction. Miss one and a freeze covers it — earned by finishing near the top of your league, and spent for you without being asked.
Levels, Points and rings
XP for seeing predictions through, Points for calling them right, and a badge that shows both. Rings are earned or bought and never affect a result.
Your week, read back
How often you were right, which length of market suits you, where the money actually went, and the calls worth looking at again.
Lessons, not tips
Short lessons on what a price means, why a spread exists, and what a settlement is. Nothing in the app tells you what to predict.
Every number, accounted
Every order, fill, settlement and movement of your balance is recorded and readable. The balance on the screen can always be explained by the rows behind it.
About the money
The balance in Tick Blip is part of the game. It is not money, it is not held for you anywhere, and there is no way to take it out — not by winning, not by asking, not ever. Everybody starts with the same amount.
You can buy more balance, a streak freeze or a ring through the App Store. Those are purchases of things inside a game: they are final, they buy no advantage, and bought balance plays and scores exactly like the balance you were given.
Tick Blip is not a broker, an exchange or a prediction market, and nothing in it is advice about anything. It reads public market data and plays out what would have happened. If you want to trade these markets for real, this is not that — and it is not a step towards it.
Questions
Is this real money?
No. Everybody starts with the same balance, and it is part of the game: it cannot be withdrawn, transferred or exchanged for anything. You can buy more of it, and cosmetics, through the App Store — that is a purchase of game items, and it is final.
Where do the prices come from?
Bitcoin’s price comes from a public market feed, and the prices on the two buttons are Polymarket’s own public order book for that market. Nothing you do here reaches Polymarket or any exchange: your order is filled against a copy of the book, inside the game.
Who decides whether I was right?
The market does, not us. A window settles on the result Polymarket publishes for it, and a market that cannot be settled honestly is voided and everything staked on it is returned.
Does buying balance make me more likely to win?
No. It buys more to play with, and it scores the same as the balance you started with, including in the league. Nothing for sale changes a price, a result or a chance.
Is there an Android version?
The app is built for both, and iOS comes first. The Android build follows once the iPhone release has been through a few weeks of real use.
How do I delete my account?
Settings → Delete my account, inside the app. It removes your account and the play history attached to it. You can also export everything first.
Be there for the first week
The first league season with real players in it is worth being in. Testing starts on iPhone.