Introduction
Making Private Markets Public
The vision thesis, design implications, and trust boundaries.
Thesis
Mechanism
Guardrails
Thesis
Private company conviction should not be gated by insider access. By encoding milestones as onchain markets, Unicorn creates a public confidence curve that updates with every trade.
Mechanism
Milestones are explicit, expiring claims. Prices emerge from YES/USDC AMM interactions, and NO exposure is warehoused through vault underwriting logic.
- Explicit outcome statement and expiry per market
- Transparent mint, redeem, swap, claim lifecycle
- Automated indexing and charting for market observability
Guardrails
Public markets need explicit integrity constraints. Unicorn should maintain clear resolution standards, transparent privileged-role disclosure, and robust fallback signaling when data is mock vs indexed.