grow your farm · trading optional
Grow your own.
Trade the harvest.
Plant $FARM, grow your land, and harvest rewards around the clock. Want to trade instead? Skip the farm and take a position on cattle, wheat, soybean, and corn markets.
start with your farm — or skip straight to trading
markets
USDA publishes an expected figure ahead of each report. Bet on whether the real number comes in below, in line with, or above it — no price exposure, just the number itself.
market ticker
Reference prices and recent movement, illustrative — not a live market feed. The tradeable contracts below settle against these same reference prices.
tradeable contracts
positions
your farm
Land pays you in $FARM even while you're not trading. $FARM can't be deposited for real yet — but you can fund a session with a real self-transfer, sent from your wallet back to yourself.
commodity news
Real headlines from Google News, refreshed automatically. Social platforms (X, Reddit) aren't included — X has never offered free API access, and Reddit shut down its last unauthenticated data path in May 2026 specifically to stop this kind of use, so there's no working free route into either right now.
community chat
Everyone here talks in the same room — a real live chat, not a message to us.
live feed
updates every 90s · last updated now- loading live news…
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tokenomics
$FARM is the currency behind everything here — the same balance used to bet on contracts and reports, and to grow your farm. One token, two games.
Ticker
$FARM
Network
Robinhood Chain
Total supply
1,000,000,000
allocation
unlocks
what it's for
fee share
Staking $FARM earns a slice of the fees taken when contracts and report positions settle, paid from real platform volume, not new emissions.
listing votes
Holders vote on which commodities, contract months, and USDA report types get added next.
report curation
$FARM holders help set and challenge the published expected figures for each report, so no single source controls the number everyone settles against.
buyback & burn
A portion of settlement fees buys back and burns $FARM, so supply tightens as platform volume grows instead of staying fixed.
early access
New commodities, report types, and farm land upgrades open to $FARM holders first.
the fee loop
Every settlement — a trade, a report bet — carries a small fee, split in two. Half funds the oracle that publishes each report's expected figure, the number every report position settles against. The other half buys back $FARM on the open market and burns it, permanently removing it from the 1,000,000,000 supply. Supply only moves down.
Settlement fee
1.5%
Oracle funding
50%
Buyback & burn
50%
what's next
Trading, reports, and the farm are all live in this build. Here's the order the token side gets built in.
core markets, reports & farm
Capped-risk contracts, USDA-style report markets, and the farm game — the version running on this site today, with $FARM funded only via real self-transfer.
automated report engine
Expected figures aggregated and published on a fixed on-chain schedule, removing manual publishing entirely.
on-chain settlement
Positions and farm progress settle through a contract instead of a browser-local save, so progress outlives the device it was made on.
automated buyback
The $FARM buyback and burn moves from a manual process to a contract that executes it on schedule.
full listing governance
$FARM holders fully control which commodities, reports, and farm upgrades get added, replacing manual curation entirely.
why i built Farmers Market
I've always liked building things.
I got into coding because I liked the idea that you could start with nothing more than an idea and turn it into something people could actually use. That interest eventually became a much bigger part of my life, and after graduating from Stanford, I wanted to take everything I'd learned and try building something completely on my own.
At the same time, I've always been interested in markets. I liked following prices, understanding why they moved, and figuring out how different pieces of information eventually made their way into a market.
Most trading platforms, though, started to feel the same.
Charts. Order books. Numbers. Another chart.
I wanted to see what would happen if a market product felt less like staring at a terminal and more like something you could actually interact with.
That's where Farmers Market started.
why agriculture?
Agricultural markets ended up being the perfect fit for the idea.
Corn, wheat, soybeans and cattle aren't abstract assets. They're real things being produced every day, and their markets are affected by everything from weather and crop conditions to supply, demand and USDA reports.
So instead of hiding all of that behind another trading interface, I wanted to make it part of the product.
You have a farm.
You grow it.
You can participate in commodity markets.
You can take positions around agricultural data.
And everything connects through $FARM.
The farming side isn't there just to make the website look different. It's meant to turn participation itself into part of the experience. Your farm can grow alongside the ecosystem rather than the entire product beginning and ending with whether you placed a trade.
building the market I wanted to use
Farmers Market is my attempt at combining a few things I've always been interested in: coding, markets, data, and building products.
The goal isn't to recreate a traditional commodities exchange with a different logo.
It's to experiment with what an agricultural market could look like if it were designed from the ground up for the internet.
Commodity contracts give users a simple way to express a view on agricultural prices. USDA markets turn major reports and fundamental data into something users can participate in directly. The farm creates another layer around that activity, while $FARM is designed to connect the different parts of the ecosystem.
And underneath all of it, I want the fundamentals to matter.
Real commodities.
Real agricultural data.
Real market outcomes.
Just presented in a completely different way.
this is still the beginning
Farmers Market started as an idea I wanted to see if I could build.
Right now, it's still an experiment and a work in progress. There are things I want to change, things I want to add, and probably things that will work completely differently six months from now.
That's part of why I'm building it publicly.
I don't want to pretend Farmers Market appeared as a finished company with a giant team behind it. I'm building it because I wanted to make something myself, put it in front of people, and see where I could take it.
If you're interested in the technical side, you can follow what I'm building on GitHub.
And if you want to follow Farmers Market as I keep working on it, you can find me on X.
— Ke
terms
Last updated September 2026
what Farmers Market is
Farmers Market is a demonstration platform for growing a farm and staking on commodity price contracts and USDA-style report outcomes — all using $FARM, a simulated currency. No account here holds or moves real money, and $FARM does not exist as a real token.
eligibility
Farmers Market is not available to persons or entities located in, incorporated in, or resident of any jurisdiction subject to comprehensive sanctions, or where use of a product like this would be prohibited by local law.
no investment advice
Nothing on this site — commodity prices, report figures, payout curves, or the farm game — is financial, investment, or trading advice. Prices and expected report figures shown here are illustrative, not real market or USDA data.
simulated balances
$FARM balances, positions, and farm progress exist only in this browser (via local storage) and are not backed by any real asset. Farmers Market does not custody funds, issue securities, or settle real trades. The self-transfer deposit feature sends a real transaction on your own chain, from your wallet back to your own address — it does not send anything to us.
changes
These terms may be updated as the product changes. Continued use of the site after an update constitutes acceptance of the revised terms.
risk
Last updated September 2026
settlement risk
Every position on Farmers Market can settle at zero. A bet only pays out if the outcome lands on the correct side of the reference price or expected report figure — landing on the wrong side means the full amount is lost, not partially returned.
no principal protection, but no margin either
There is no minimum payout, refund, or guarantee on any position — but there is also no margin, no leverage, and no margin call. The most any single position can lose is the amount bet on it, never more.
reference price & report risk
Reference prices and expected report figures shown here are illustrative in this demo. In a live version, they would still be estimates rather than guarantees of what a commodity trades at or what a report actually shows.
self-transfer risk
The deposit flow on the farm page triggers a real blockchain transaction from your wallet to itself. You are responsible for reviewing and approving that transaction in your own wallet before it sends. Network fees (gas) are real and are not refundable by us or anyone else.
token risk
$FARM, as described on the tokenomics page, does not currently exist as a real token. Allocation, unlock schedules, and utility are subject to change and are not commitments.
local storage risk
Farm progress and positions are saved only in your browser's local storage. Clearing your browser data, switching devices, or switching browsers will lose that progress. Nothing here is backed up on any server.
privacy
Last updated September 2026
what this demo collects
This build of Farmers Market does not create real accounts or store personal data on a server. Wallet connection and balance live only in your browser session. Farm progress and positions are saved to your browser's local storage and never transmitted anywhere.
cookies & local storage
Farmers Market does not use tracking cookies or third-party analytics in this demo. Farm progress uses browser local storage purely to persist your game state between visits.
third-party links
Links to X, news sources, and other external sites are provided for convenience. Farmers Market is not responsible for the privacy practices of sites it links to.
contact
Questions about this policy can be sent to hello@farmersmarket.exchange.