# Overview

### 🌐 Sport Value Market (SVM): Protocol Overview

Sport Value Market (SVM) is a chain-agnostic, decentralized protocol for creating prediction markets around real-world sports performance. From footballers to F1 drivers to dancers and beyond — if their performance creates fans, SVM turns it into programmable value.

Governed entirely by a DAO via the $SVM token, the protocol puts the community in control. Each supported sports star gets their own fixed-supply asset, a Player Token, that can be bought, staked, and earned from without placing a bet or taking on a loss.

Fans become stakeholders. Performance becomes on-chain logic. And the protocol does the rest.

### 🔁 Core Mechanisms

* Player Token Issuance: Newly issued tokens launch via a bonding curve, allowing anyone to buy early access or sell back to the pool seamlessly if they change their mind.
* Performance Ranking: Athletes are scored and ranked using verified data after every real-world sports event.
* Performance Rewards: Token holders receive protocol rewards (yield/payouts) based on their athletes' real-world scores.
* Engagement Points: Additional reward points are distributed to incentivize and reward active user participation.
* Governance ($SVM): $SVM governance token holders guide the protocol's future and receive a share of the protocol's generated revenue.
* Decentralized Trading: Player Tokens can be traded instantly on the native protocol DEX or any other exchange where they are listed.