# Legal and compliance ### Important Notice Prediction markets may be subject to regulations in your jurisdiction. Users are responsible for ensuring compliance with local laws. Yamata provides infrastructure only and does not: * Offer investment advice * Guarantee market outcomes * Provide financial services * Act as a custodian or intermediary ### Risk Warning Participating in prediction markets involves risk of loss. Only commit funds you can afford to lose. Past performance does not predict future results. Markets may become illiquid or resolve unexpectedly. ## Conclusion Yamata empowers anyone to create and participate in decentralized prediction markets with unprecedented transparency, fairness, and efficiency. Through permissionless market creation, optional time-weighted rewards, position tracking tokens, and community-driven discovery, Yamata represents the next evolution of on-chain forecasting. ### Ready to get started? 1. Create your first market or browse Public Markets 2. Make your first prediction 3. Join the community and shape the future of decentralized forecasting ### Let the markets decide. Welcome to Yamata. --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://docs.yamata.io/using-yamata/predictions-market/legal-and-compliance.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.