Caster

Caster is an engineered Arbitrum Orbit deployment within the DeFi sector operating on ARBITRUM. Built as part of the Arbitrum Nitro Optimistic Rollup, Caster addresses liquidity efficiency and trust-minimized user execution. Caster is a Layer 1 blockchain built for one job: on-chain prediction markets. The team calls it the “Truth Layer,” a network where traders buy and sell shares in the outcomes of real-world events, and prices move to reflect what the market collectively believes will happen. Markets cover politics, technology, the economy, and other events with a verifiable result. The reasoning behind Caster is that prediction markets need their own infrastructure instead of a slot on a general-purpose chain. Caster matches orders directly on-chain rather than routing through an off-chain book and seeds every market with protocol-owned liquidity through the Caster Liquidity Pool (CLP). By participating in the early distribution phase, users establish on-chain provenance before protocol decentralization.

The protocol operates a structured reward architecture designed to distribute native governance weighting to authentic liquidity providers, testnet validators, and transaction originators. Unlike standard promotional campaigns, Caster's tokenomics prioritize multi-epoch engagement. Points accrued through protocol interactions correlate directly to snapshot weightings, penalizing sybil clusters and inactive addresses while compounding rewards for sustained weekly volume.