Risk overview
Understand the main risks before using Timu.
Timu is risky
Timu markets are onchain prediction markets. You can lose funds through market moves, liquidation, LP losses, oracle issues, contract bugs, or operational mistakes.
Nothing in these docs is financial advice.
Main risk categories
- Market risk: your price view can be wrong.
- Liquidity risk: exits can be expensive, partial, delayed, or unavailable.
- Vault operations risk: an Earn Vault withdrawal can depend on idle collateral, a keeper divest, a fresh NAV mark, an unlocked LP lot, and a working pool oracle. See Earn vaults.
- Oracle and settlement risk: price reads can be stale or cause a position settlement outcome different from what you expect. Oracle changes are timelocked and bounded; see Oracle and contract risks.
- Smart contract risk: bugs or unsafe integrations can cause losses.
- Delegation risk: authorizing a trading agent lets a hot key trade your margin account until it expires or you revoke it; see Oracle and contract risks.
- Creation and configuration risk: permissionless price markets can have misleading metadata or parameters unsuitable for your risk tolerance.
- Wallet risk: wrong-chain transactions, approvals, and phishing can put funds at risk.
Practical habits
- Start small on new markets.
- Check chain, collateral, and market status.
- Read pool parameters, oracle status, and invalid conditions before trading.
- Use slippage and payout guards when available.
- Keep enough gas and any required oracle update fee for urgent actions.
- Monitor positions after large price or news moves.
- Check the token, amount, and target contract in each wallet approval before signing.