Published Standards

Prediction Market Classification Standard

Determines which products are subject to the PMCPS family. The standard applies a gates-based functional test that examines what a product does rather than how it is licensed, so the outcome is independent of any jurisdictional determination.

Version 1.2 applies the amendments adopted by the PMCPS AI Standards Committee on September 9, 2026. One section is replaced and four are edited. The commodity carve-out in the classification gate is narrowed, a reclassification trigger is added, and classification determinations must now be filed before a product is first offered. Each document carries a revision history stating what changed and by how much.

Prediction Market Minimum Internal Control Standards

States what a covered operator must do. The standard sets requirements across participant exclusion, financial limits, disclosure, problem gambling, age and identity verification, market integrity, contract resolution, records, and audit.

Version 1.2 applies the amendments adopted by the PMCPS AI Standards Committee on September 9, 2026, as twenty-six individual amendments. One section is replaced and eighteen are edited. A machine-readable resolution specification is required, evidence requirements are attached to independent testing and to surveillance, and participant notices move to the point of entry. Each document carries a revision history stating what changed and by how much.

Prediction Market Technical Standards

Reserved pending CFTC final rulemaking. The identifier is held so that the technical layer can be issued without renumbering the family once the rule is settled. A structural outline exists and is available on request. Reservation here is specific to the pending federal rulemaking, not the Institute's practice for technical layers. Where no such rulemaking is outstanding the technical layer is issued with the rest of the family, as it was for SBCGS-T.

Skill-Based Charitable Gaming Classification Standard

Determines which products are subject to the SBCGS family. The standard applies a gates-based functional test that examines what a player transfers, what a player may receive, what a player can know, and how the product is presented, so the outcome is independent of whether the product is a game of skill, a slot machine, or lawful gambling in any jurisdiction. It also defines the three measures by which a claim that outcome depends on skill is tested: how far the skill element can move the return, whether an ordinary player can find and use it, and whether players in the field actually do.

Version 1.3 corrects the print stylesheet. In every earlier PDF a table wider than the page was cut off at the right edge rather than wrapped, so words in the rightmost column of wide tables were not drawn at all. The HTML and DOCX formats were never affected. See the erratum below. Version 1.2 corrected the revision note carried by version 1.1, which stated that version 1.1 corrected a citation basis. It did not. Those corrections were made before version 1.0 was issued. No requirement has been added, removed, or changed in any version.

Skill-Based Charitable Gaming Minimum Internal Control Standards

States what a covered operator, a licensed charitable or fraternal organization, and a host location must each do. The standard sets requirements across exclusion, financial limits, session conduct, disclosure, problem gambling, age and identity verification, placement, cash handling, records, and audit, and allocates every duty to a named party. A separate part governs charitable proceeds: what fraction of a player's money reaches the charitable purpose, how it is computed, and how it is disclosed to the player at the point of play.

Version 1.3 corrects the print stylesheet. In every earlier PDF a table wider than the page was cut off at the right edge rather than wrapped, so words in the rightmost column of wide tables were not drawn at all. The HTML and DOCX formats were never affected. See the erratum below. Version 1.2 corrected the revision note carried by version 1.1, which stated that version 1.1 corrected a citation basis. It did not. Those corrections were made before version 1.0 was issued. No requirement has been added, removed, or changed in any version.

Skill-Based Charitable Gaming Technical Standards

States what the device and the supporting system must do, in terms a testing laboratory can certify against a prototype. The standard covers software and hardware integrity, player interface and disclosure, enforcement of age, exclusion and limits at the point of entry, accounting and metering, monitoring and communications, logging and reconstruction, fail-safe behavior, and the certification chain. Its central part specifies how a laboratory determines the return at optimal skill, the return when the skill element is never engaged, and the difference between them, and requires the device to record whether real players engage the skill element at all.

Version 1.3 corrects the print stylesheet. In every earlier PDF a table wider than the page was cut off at the right edge rather than wrapped, so words in the rightmost column of wide tables were not drawn at all. The HTML and DOCX formats were never affected. See the erratum below. Version 1.2 corrected the revision note carried by version 1.1, which stated that version 1.1 corrected a citation basis. It did not. Those corrections were made before version 1.0 was issued. No requirement has been added, removed, or changed in any version.