What are NoVig's deposit and withdrawal rules? As of August 2026, after its August 4 relaunch as a regulated real-money prediction market: no published minimum deposit, a $10 minimum withdrawal, fee-free deposits by bank transfer or stablecoin, a 3% fee on card and Apple Pay deposits, and withdrawals that can process within minutes when no review is needed and within about 24 hours when one is, paid back out by bank transfer, debit card or Venmo.
Most of what the internet will tell you about NoVig deposits and withdrawals is about a product that no longer exists. NoVig relaunched as a federally regulated, real-money prediction market on August 4, 2026, and the switch replaced its old sweepstakes money rules of coin bundles in and prize redemptions out with something much simpler: dollars in, dollars out. That makes the three questions this page answers newly answerable, with real figures pulled from NoVig's own published rules: what it takes to get money in, how long the NoVig withdrawal time actually runs, and what any of it costs. Then comes the section that matters most to anyone staring at a stalled withdrawal right now: the three reasons a perfectly healthy withdrawal still stalls, none of which, on NoVig's own published rules, indicates a problem with your funds. And if you knew NoVig as the sweepstakes app, stay for what happened to old Novig Cash balances.
Trading a different exchange instead, or alongside this one? You can do this on Kalshi too, and the deposit/withdrawal mechanics are different enough to be worth reading before you fund either account.
These are market prices and model estimates, not predictions of fact and not financial advice.
First, Make Sure You Are Reading About The Right NoVig
Until early August 2026, NoVig ran as a dual-currency sweepstakes product: you bought coin bundles, played with a redeemable currency called Novig Cash, and "withdrawing" meant redeeming prizes against a minimum. That entire structure is retired. On June 16, 2026, the CFTC granted Designated Contract Market status to Ludlow Exchange, LLC, the exchange entity behind NoVig, and on August 4, 2026, NoVig went live as a real-money exchange under that federal designation. Both sweepstakes currencies were shut off, and NoVig says any remaining Novig Cash balance was converted to US dollars in the new account.
That last sentence is the answer to the most common leftover question: if you had Novig Cash when the switch happened, you did not lose it. It became a dollar balance, and every rule on this page now applies to it. It also means any article quoting redemption minimums, playthrough tiers, or "cash prize" language is describing the old product. NoVig today works like the other regulated exchanges we cover — an order book where an exchange is not a sportsbook — and if the whole category is new to you, start with what event contracts are before you fund anything.
Everything below was verified against NoVig's own published payment and trading rules as of August 7, 2026. The relaunch is exactly why we date-stamp it: money rules are the first thing to move when a platform changes model, so confirm the numbers in the app before you rely on them.
Answer One: The Minimum To Fund An Account
We could not find a published minimum deposit anywhere in NoVig's payment documentation, and we are telling you that rather than inventing a floor. In practice the number that functions as your minimum is $10, the withdrawal minimum, because depositing less than that leaves you with money you could trade but not cleanly take back out.
What NoVig does publish is which deposit rails cost you nothing and which do not:
| Deposit Method | Processor | Fee |
|---|---|---|
| Bank Transfer | Stripe or Aeropay | None — "discount pricing" |
| Stablecoin (USDC Or USDT) | Coinflow | None — "discount pricing" |
| Credit Or Debit Card (Visa, Mastercard, American Express, Discover) | Coinflow | 3%, applied at deposit |
| Apple Pay | Coinflow | 3%, applied at deposit |
The row worth reading twice is the card row. A 3% deposit fee means a $100 card deposit costs $103 before you have placed a single trade, and NoVig's own help pages say plainly that bank transfers and stablecoins are the cost-effective way in. The fee is shown before you confirm, so nothing is hidden, but the cheapest version of this platform starts with a linked bank account, not a card. One more sweepstakes-era leftover to unlearn: you are not buying a coin bundle at fixed price points anymore. You enter whatever dollar amount you want, pick a method, and that amount becomes your balance.
Getting money in cheaply only matters if you can get it back out on a predictable clock, which is the question most people actually came here to answer.
Before that first deposit, check the welcome terms — our Novig sign-up bonus guide covers what is on the table.
Answer Two: How Long A NoVig Withdrawal Actually Takes
The mechanics are five taps: open Account, tap Withdraw, choose all or part of your available balance, pick a method, confirm. NoVig currently supports three withdrawal methods (bank transfer, debit card, and Venmo), and the clock runs in stages:
| Stage | Published timing |
|---|---|
| No Review Needed | Can process within minutes |
| Manual Compliance Review | Typically completed within 24 hours; up to 24-48 hours during high volume |
| After 48 Hours With No Movement | NoVig says to contact support |
| After NoVig Releases The Funds | Your bank, card network, or Venmo's own timeline applies |
Two details in that table earn their space. First, "within minutes" is NoVig's own published wording for a clean withdrawal, not our gloss on it. Second, the manual review that sometimes replaces it is not something you can influence: NoVig states you do not need to send documents or take any action during a review, support cannot expedite it, and it describes the checks as routine compliance measures applied to all users equally, so a flag says nothing about your account in particular. The honest expectation for a NoVig withdrawal time, then, is minutes on a good day, a day or two when a review triggers, plus whatever your own bank adds on the far end. That last-mile caveat is the same one that applies when a Kalshi payout is not instant either.
NoVig is explicit about one more rule, and it works in your favor: there is no playthrough requirement. Deposited funds do not have to be traded any number of times before they are eligible for withdrawal. Your balance is simply your money. Remember that rule, because it is about to matter in reverse: the one thing that does tie your money up is the thing you came to the platform to do.
Answer Three: What It Costs
On the withdrawal side, we could not find any published NoVig withdrawal fee, and the fee material it does publish points the other way: the costs NoVig discloses are the 3% card-deposit fee above and its trading fees, not an exit charge. Trading fees are their own subject. Maker orders (maker and taker, defined) and pre-game straight trades taken in the app or on the web are fee-free, while taking a live in-game trade or a parlay carries a small formula-based fee that peaks near 50-cent prices and is shown, or already baked into the quote, before you confirm. The formulas are published: a live taker pays 3 cents times the price times one minus the price per contract, so at a 50-cent price, the worst case, that is 0.75 cents a contract, and on 100 contracts the ugliest live fee you can pay is about 75 cents. Parlays use the same shape at 10 cents instead of 3, about 2.5 cents a contract at the 50-cent peak, already inside the quote you see. If you want the habit of reading an event-contract fee schedule line by line, our breakdown of how Kalshi's fees work teaches it, and the same reading transfers straight to NoVig's schedule.
So the full cost picture of a round trip is: free in by bank or stablecoin (3% by card), zero published cost out, and trading fees only in specific situations in between. On NoVig's published numbers, a full deposit-trade-withdraw cycle can cost exactly nothing, which is why the delays people hit are almost never about fees. They are about the three mechanics in the next section.
A Worked Example: The Life Of A $100 Deposit
Follow $100 through the system, because the sequence is where the rules stop being trivia. You link a bank account and deposit $100 by bank transfer, which is discount pricing, so $100 arrives as $100. You take a position: 100 contracts at 40 cents on a pre-game market, costing $40 with no taker fee. The moment that order is placed, the $40 moves into escrow, where it stays until the position is closed, cashed out, or the event settles; an order that never fills can simply be cancelled to free its escrow. What NoVig calls your wallet balance, the only number you can withdraw, now reads $60, even though your portfolio balance still shows the account's full worth including the position's live market price. Those are NoVig's own terms for the split, and its help pages spell out the formula: portfolio balance is wallet balance plus open positions plus trade credits.
Say the market settles your way and the contracts pay $1 each: $100 lands back in your wallet, and your withdrawable balance is $160. You tap Withdraw, send it to your bank, and it clears the $10 minimum easily; if no review triggers, the money can be moving within minutes, and if one does, the published expectation is about a day. Nothing in that whole loop cost you a fee. The trap-shaped part is the middle: had you tried to withdraw everything while the position was open, the app would have offered you $60, and that gap between "my account is worth $160" and "I can withdraw $60" is the single most common thing readers mistake for a stuck withdrawal.
What Can Go Wrong, And Why It Usually Is Not A Fault
NoVig's own help pages say withdrawal trouble is almost always one of the following, and the three line up with what we see across every regulated venue.
Identity verification is not finished. NoVig requires verification before releasing withdrawals, under the federal KYC and anti-money-laundering requirements that apply to regulated exchanges. Signup asks for your legal name, date of birth, address, phone number, and the last four digits of your SSN; if the records match, verification is typically instant, and a US driver's license or state ID may be requested when it is not. This is also why a first withdrawal is where delays cluster: it is the moment an unverified detail (a nickname instead of a legal name, an old address, an expired document) finally has to be resolved. NoVig can also require re-verification later for security or regulatory reasons, flagged by an "ACTION REQUIRED" email or notification, and withdrawals wait until you complete it. Resolve the mismatch and the hold clears.
A manual review is running. That minutes-fast path has a compliance gate in front of it. Some withdrawals are flagged for routine review, typically resolved within 24 hours, stretching toward 48 in busy stretches. NoVig is explicit that you do not need to do anything during one — no documents, no action — and that support cannot speed it up. The 48-hour mark is the published line where a wait stops being routine and you should open a chat.
The money is in open positions, not your wallet. This is the worked example's callback, and it is the big one. You can only withdraw your wallet balance; funds in escrow come back when an unfilled order is cancelled, or when the position is closed, cashed out, or settled. NoVig's portfolio-balance rules add one more line to know: promotional trade credits are never withdrawable at all, they can only be applied toward a trade. A screen showing plenty of account worth and little withdrawable cash is the design working, not the design failing.
The 30-second diagnostic.Withdrawal held and the app is asking about identity? Verification is unfinished — matching your legal details fixes it fastest. Withdrawal confirmed but not moving? A routine review is likely running; the published window is about 24 hours, and 48 is when to contact support. Account worth big but withdrawable balance small? The money is in open positions or trade credits, and closing or settlement is what turns it back into cash.
One more, rarer than the three but worth knowing because it looks exactly like a malfunction: location. Eligibility is checked against your physical location every time you open the app, and if you travel into a state NoVig excludes, your open positions still settle normally, but you cannot place new orders, deposit, or withdraw until you are back in an eligible state. If the app suddenly will not move money on a trip, that is probably the whole story. The short version of availability under the new model: not every state, always 21+, and because the footprint runs off the exchange's federal designation rather than state-by-state licensing, the app's own signup check is the only current answer for your state.
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Know Which Number You Are Looking At
That diagnostic is really the whole page in three questions, and each one resolves to a number you now know: the deposit rail decides whether $100 in costs $100 or $103, the wallet-versus-portfolio split decides what you can take out today, and the review clock decides whether "minutes" becomes "tomorrow." None of it is a fault; it is the plumbing of a regulated exchange, the same plumbing behind the weather markets we track and every other venue we cover. For transparency: Stokastic, our parent company, trades prediction markets and holds positions in them, which is why we write about the mechanics rather than telling you what to trade. Nothing on this page is a pick or a recommendation, and event contracts can lose their full worth. That reminder matters doubly on a page about withdrawable balances, because the classic way an account stops being withdrawable is risk-shaped, not plumbing-shaped: selling an unlikely outcome collects a small premium and risks most of a dollar, and roughly speaking, one loss erases the premiums from about 15 wins. Sizing positions with that arithmetic in mind is what keeps a balance in the wallet column at all.
