How ShakeOnIt works

Why ShakeOnIt

Everyone's got opinions. Here you actually back them — and find out who was right.

• Settle it for real."Wanna Shake on it?" becomes an actual record, with the coins to prove who called it.
• Bragging rights that stick.Your rating, your win streak, and titles beside your name — a reputation you build one right call at a time.
• Stakes without the risk.It runs on Coins, not cash — the thrill of something on the line without spending a cent.
• A live feed of predictions.Sports, politics, weather, pop culture — jump in on whatever you actually know.
• Grudge matches encouraged. Every friend keeps a head-to-head record. Rivalries build fast.
• A win is a real win. Contested calls go through AI then human review, so nobody talks their way out of a loss.
• Climb the board.The leaderboard shows who reads the game best — make it you.

How you get coins

Coins are free — there's nothing to buy, and they're not cash. They're how you keep score, and there are four ways your pile grows:

• A head start. You get a starting balance the moment you join.
• Show up.A daily bonus lands every day you come back — the longer your streak, the bigger it gets.
• Bring friends.Earn coins each time a friend signs up with your invite link — and so do they.
• Be right. Win a Shake and you take the pot. The surest way to grow your stack is simply to call it better than the other side.

That's the whole economy: play, and your pile grows. You can't cash coins out — they're bragging rights with something on the line, not money.

The basic idea

You're sure about something. Maybe it's going to rain, maybe your team wins, maybe your friend won't last a week without takeout. So you Shake (predict) it: you post a statement, pick a side (TRUE or FALSE), and put some coins behind it. Anyone who disagrees can Shake on it, taking the other side for the same amount. When the outcome is known, whoever was right takes the coins.

How this is different from Polymarket & Kalshi

The biggest difference: here, you make the predictions. On Polymarket and Kalshi you trade on questions someone else already listed — you pick a market from a catalog and buy or sell shares of the outcome. On ShakeOnIt there's no catalog: you write the prediction yourself, in your own words, pick your side, and put coins behind it.

And it isn't a market. Those are prediction markets— you buy and sell shares at a price that moves with the crowd, against an order book of strangers, and that price is your odds. ShakeOnIt is a direct, head-to-head bet between people: someone takes the other side of your call, even money, winner takes the pot. No order book, no share prices, no odds ticking up and down.

• You make the call.Every Shake starts with a prediction you wrote — your statement, your side, your pot — not a market picked from a list.
• Head-to-head, not a market.You're matched against real people (with @usernames and reliability ratings), not trading shares into an anonymous pool.
• Even money.Both sides put up the same and the winner takes it; there's no price to time and no spread to cross.
• Social by design.Ratings, win streaks, friends, and private Shakes with people you know — a market has none of that.
• Play coins, not cash.Everything runs on virtual Coins with no cash value (more below) — it's for the fun of being right, not a financial exchange.

Making a Shake

You write the statement, choose your side, and set your pot— the total coins you're willing to risk on it. You also set two dates: a Join Deadline (the last moment someone can Shake) and a Resolution Time (when the outcome is decided). Your whole pot is held the moment you create the Shake, so everyone knows the coins are really on the line.

Finding a Shake

The Public feed is your board of open Shakes to join. Browse the whole list, narrow it to a category (Sports, Politics, Movies, Weather and more), or search — by topic, a person's name, or an @username.

You don't have to guess the exact wording. The moment someone posts a Shake, an AI reads the statement and quietly tags itwith the topics, names, and places people actually search for. So a Shake worded "the general election" still turns up when you search "politics" or a candidate's name — the tags do the matching for you.

Tap any card to open its full details. Not interested? Tap Skipand it's gone from your list for good. Clearing out a few at once? Tap Select, tick the ones you're done with, and Skip them together.

Shaking on it

Anyone can take the other side of an open Shake. You choose how much to put in — any amount from the minimum up to whatever's left of the Initiator's pot — and your coins are matched against theirs. Several people can each take a slice of the same pot. Once the pot is fully taken or the Join Deadline passes, it closes to new Shakes, and any part of the pot no one took is refunded to the Initiator automatically.

What it costs

Two numbers to know, and both are small:

• Handling fee - 5%. When you win, the platform keeps 5% of what you win (the coins you took off your opponent), with a small 1-coin minimum. The loser pays no handling fee.
• Dispute deposit - 10% (min 2 coins). Held alongside your coins on every Public Shake and refunded in full - unless a dispute goes against you. A human ruling forfeits the whole deposit (10%); accepting an AI verdict forfeits only half (5%).

How a Shake works

Every Shake is public:

• Public Shake - public, anyone can join. You back it with a source anyone can check (a final score, a forecast, an election result), and it lives in the feed. Strangers welcome.

When you can't agree (Public Shakes)

Most Shakes settle themselves: the outcome's obvious, both sides agree, the winner gets paid. But if a Public Shake ends in a genuine standoff, it goes through two review stages - an AI reviewer first, and if it's still contested, a human dispute reviewer.

Step 1 - AI review.An AI reads the Shake's source (or web-searches if it has to) and proposes a verdict. If it finds you won, you're set - there's nothing to do but wait for it to finalize. The side it finds got it wrong gets 24 hours to choose:

• Accept the AI verdict - done instantly, and the side that got it wrong forfeits just half their dispute deposit (5%), the rest refunded.
• Escalate to a human- push it up to Step 2. Staying silent also counts as escalating, so nobody gets steamrolled into the AI's call.

Step 2 - Human review. A ShakeOnIt human reviewer makes the final call within 72 hours; the side that got it wrong forfeits the whole 10% dispute deposit.

Either side can escalate alone. Whatever's forfeited is kept by the platform.

Closing soon & staying in the loop

When a Shake is within 3 hours of its Join Deadline it picks up a "Closing soon"flame, so you don't miss your window to jump in. And when a Shake you were part of resolves, a win/loss card pops upthe next time you open the app — you always find out how you did without going hunting for it.

Your rating

Every profile carries a 1-to-5 star rating- your reputation for calling things straight. You start at a spotless 5; play fair and it stays that way. The little scale icon beside it counts the disputes you've lost.

When a Shake ends with no clear winner - both sides claim they were right, or nobody confirms the outcome in time - there's nothing to settle, so both sides forfeit their coins to the platform. No ban, no drama; you just lose what you put in. Moral of the story: Shake it straight.

Ranks, badges & streaks

The more you play, the higher your rankclimbs — Rookie → Caller → Sharpshooter → Oracle → Grandmaster. It shows beside your name across the app and only ever goes up.

On top of that, badges mark how you're doing right now— a spotless record, a hot win streak. You hold a badge only while you keep it up; lose your form and it slips away until you earn it back.

A daily streakcounts every day you play a Shake — start one or join one before midnight to keep the flame alive. And a titleyou've earned or picked sits beside your name too. See your rank, badges, streak and what's next on your progress page.

Keeping score

Your Dashboardis the scoreboard for everything you've got going: open Shakes, active ones waiting to resolve, what's settled, and your running profit & loss— handling fees included. The Leaderboardranks the top players, so you can see who's calling it best.

Signing in

Your call: get a one-time code by email, set an email & password, or breeze in with a passkey (Face ID, Touch ID, or a fingerprint) or your Google account. The app remembers how you got in last time and leads with it, so signing in stays a one-tap affair.

Coins, not cash

Everything above runs on platform Coins — virtual points, not real money. You can't cash them out, and they have no cash value. They're simply a way to keep score with something on the line: no deposits, no withdrawals, no payouts.