How Fan Club Z Works

The big picture

Fan Club Z turns a familiar social habit — calling what will happen next — into a structured, fair loop: discover a clear question, take a position with Zaurum, wait for the event to resolve, settle against a named public source, and let that outcome become part of your track record. Each step has rules. Those rules are what make the record trustworthy enough to matter.

If you only remember three ideas from this page, remember these: read the question literally; stake only when you understand the close time and verification source; and treat your profile as a long game, not a single night’s score. Everything else is detail that supports those habits.

1. Discover predictions

Everything starts on the Discover surface. Predictions are short, clear questions about a future outcome — a match result, a market close, an official announcement — grouped by category so you can browse Sports, Creators, Markets, and more. Each card shows the question, the participation pool, how many people have taken part, and when it closes, so you can judge at a glance whether it is worth your attention.

A good prediction on Fan Club Z is written so that anyone can verify the result from a reliable public source after it closes. Before you take part, it is worth reading the question carefully: what exact event is being predicted, when does it close, and where will the outcome be confirmed? If any of those are fuzzy, skip it — or report it if it looks intentionally misleading. Ambiguity is not a feature; it is a fairness risk.

Concrete example: “Will Team A win tonight’s match per the league’s official result board, kickoff before 20:00 UTC on 12 May?” is settleable. “Will Team A look dominant?” is not. The first names a subject, a measurable event, a source, and a time window. The second invites endless argument. Our creating predictions guide shows more before-and-after examples.

2. Take a position with Zaurum

When you find a prediction you understand, you take a position by staking Zaurum — the in-app participation currency. Zaurum is used for balances, staking, rewards, and creator-earnings displays. In the standard app experience, Zaurum is for entertainment and social participation, has no cash value, and is not redeemable for money; Fan Club Z predictions are social participation, not real-money gambling.

Your stake reflects how confident you are. Staking does not guarantee a prediction will settle — if a prediction turns out to be unclear, unverifiable, or was created unfairly, it may be voided and stakes refunded. That safety net is deliberate: it protects participants from ambiguous or manipulated markets.

Think of the stake as a commitment of attention and conviction inside the Fan Club Z economy layer — not as a cash transfer. Keeping one native unit (Zaurum) across balances, pools, and rewards is what makes performance comparable across people and over time. Dig deeper in Understanding Zaurum and the Zaurum economy article.

3. Read the pool without mistaking it for truth

As people take positions, the pool shows how participation is distributed. That distribution can be interesting — it reflects what the community currently believes — but it is not a guarantee of the outcome, and it is not how settlement works. Settlement ignores popularity. It follows the written question and the named source.

Strong participants use pool information as one signal among many, then still ask: what is the base rate for this kind of event? What information am I missing? Am I overweighting a loud narrative? Those habits are covered in Probability & Implied Odds and Improving Your Accuracy.

4. Outcomes are settled from the written question

After a prediction closes, it is settled strictly against the exact wording of the question, using the reliable public source named when it was created — an official league result, a recognized exchange close, a government announcement, and so on. Settlement is never based on personal preference, the majority staking direction, or a private explanation offered after the fact.

Winners are paid from the losing side of the pool, and winners are never taxed on their own stake. If a prediction cannot be resolved fairly — the event was cancelled, the wording was too vague, or the outcome was already known before it was created — it is voided and stakes are returned. You can read the full rules in the Prediction Standards & Participation Guide.

Why be so strict? Because a track record only compounds if people trust the settlements behind it. A clever reinterpretation that “feels fair” to one person destroys trust for everyone else. We wrote about that design choice in How settlement builds trust and on Trust & Safety.

5. Build a performance identity

Every prediction you make becomes part of your track record. Over time, your profile shows how consistent and accurate you have been — not a single lucky call, but a legible history that other participants can evaluate. This is the heart of Fan Club Z: reputation is earned through participation quality and consistency, and it compounds into trust-weighted discovery and, for creators, durable momentum.

Treat early misses as tuition, not as a verdict on your identity. Calibration improves when you review why you were wrong, not when you double down to “get even.” Performance identity is about the shape of your record over dozens of settled questions — the theme of our performance identity essay.

6. Creators and community

Anyone can create predictions. Good creators write clear, fair, verifiable questions and settle them honestly; in return they can earn from well-formed markets. Creating intentionally vague predictions, farming earnings from low-quality markets, or settling unfairly can lead to voided predictions, deducted earnings, or account restrictions. The goal is a high-trust community where people earn from quality, not from confusion.

Communities thrive when standards are shared. Report misleading questions, block accounts that harass, and reward creators who write settleable markets by participating in the ones that meet the bar. Personal habits that keep participation healthy are in Responsible Participation; platform-level moderation and integrity are covered under Trust & Safety.

7. Disputes, voids, and edge cases

Real events are messy. Matches get postponed. Sources disagree. Questions that looked clear at creation can become ambiguous after the fact. Fan Club Z prefers a clear void-and-return over a contested forced settlement. That can feel unsatisfying in the moment — especially if you were sure you were right — but it protects the integrity of everyone’s track record.

If you believe a settlement was wrong, use in-app reporting and the guidance on Contact / Help. Include the prediction link, the exact wording, the named source, and what you observed. Vague complaints without evidence are harder to review fairly.

8. Ads, sponsorship, and what stays separate

Some surfaces may show first-party sponsored placements or third-party ads where enabled. Advertising never decides settlement and never rewrites a prediction’s wording. Sponsored cards should remain labeled; participation rules stay the same whether or not a creator has a commercial relationship with the platform. Details live on Advertising and in the Privacy Policy.

A sample journey, start to finish

1. You open Discover and find a sports prediction with a clear close time and an official league source.
2. You read the full question, check that the outcome is not already known, and stake Zaurum on the side you believe is more likely.
3. The prediction closes before the event resolves. After the official result posts, settlement follows the wording exactly.
4. Your balance updates according to the pool rules; your profile updates with another settled data point.
5. Over weeks, you review misses, tighten which categories you enter, and — if you create — publish only questions you could settle as a stranger.

Ready to try it?

The best way to understand Fan Club Z is to browse a few real predictions and see the flow for yourself. Open the app to explore Discover, or continue with the guide to creating great predictions, the Understanding Zaurum explainer, the FAQ, or the Help Center. For definitions of every key term, keep the Glossary handy.