Trust & Security

Your balance on Notstocks is real money you have deposited, held as a credit on your account. It is recorded in our database under your account only — no other user can see it, touch it or trade with it.

Every operation that changes your balance — deposits, trades, fees and withdrawals — is validated and executed on our servers, never in your browser. This means a balance cannot be manipulated from the outside, and every change is logged with a timestamp and a reference you can see in your own activity history.

Deposits are processed by NOWPayments, an established crypto payment provider. Card and bank details never touch our servers, and crypto payments are confirmed on-chain before your balance is credited. A deposit is credited exactly once, even if the confirmation is delivered to us more than once.

1. You choose an amount on Notstocks and are sent to NOWPayments' own checkout.

2. You pick a currency and pay. The payment is confirmed on the blockchain by NOWPayments.

3. NOWPayments notifies our system, we verify the payment directly with them, and your balance is credited.

4. You receive a confirmation email, and the deposit appears in your activity history with its amount and reference.

If a payment is confirmed but your balance does not update, contact us through the contact form or at support@notstocks.com — every payment has a unique reference and we can trace and credit it manually.

Withdrawing is deliberately simple, and every step is visible to you:

• 1. Request — you enter the amount and your receiving wallet address in your portfolio. The amount is reserved from your balance immediately, so it cannot be spent twice.
• 2. Review — every withdrawal is reviewed by our team before it is paid. This protects you against account takeovers and protects the platform against fraud.
• 3. Payment — approved withdrawals are paid out in crypto to the address you gave. You receive an email when it is done.
• 4. If declined — the full amount is returned to your balance immediately, and the email tells you why.

Withdrawals are normally processed within 24 hours. You can follow the status of every request in your activity history — pending, paid or declined — so you never have to wonder where your money is.

If a withdrawal has been pending for more than 48 hours, contact us through the contact form or at support@notstocks.com and we will look into it the same day.

Passwords are stored only as salted hashes — we cannot see or recover your password, only reset it.

The database enforces row-level access controls: your positions, balance and history are readable only by you, and the public trade tape never shows who traded.

Sign-in is protected by rate limiting and abuse detection, and you can also sign in with Google, in which case we never see a password at all.

Administrative actions — crediting balances, approving listings, paying withdrawals — are restricted to a small number of verified admin accounts and are logged.

Prices on Notstocks are set by trading activity together with daily AI analysis of public signals about each company. No single trade can move a price more than a fraction of a percent.

Trades are sized between $10 and $1,000, which keeps the market orderly and prevents any participant from dominating price formation.

The public trade tape shows every trade — side, size, price and time — in anonymised form, so market activity is fully transparent and auditable by anyone.

Notstocks is a prediction market for private, unlisted companies. Trading here does not give you shares, ownership or any claim on the underlying companies, and nothing on the site is investment advice.

We would rather tell you this plainly on every page than have you find out later. If anything on the site is ever unclear, ask us — we answer every message through the contact form and at support@notstocks.com, normally within 24 hours.