Community Resolve

How market outcomes get decided

Scroll through each stage of lifecycle resolution, from market close to final payout distribution.

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Illustration of an open market with live YES and NO pricing.

Open market and live price movement

Market Opens

Trading runs until close time. Anyone can participate in price discovery before resolution starts.

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Illustration showing trading lock and vote window start.

Clock lock and community voting start

Market Closes

Trading stops. Community resolution window opens for 24 hours.

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Illustration of resolver stakes entering YES and NO pools.

Stake chips entering YES/NO columns

Resolvers Stake

Resolvers can stake from $1 up to 2x the average bet size to support YES or NO.

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Illustration of vote totals and provisional YES or NO result.

Vote totals and provisional result

Provisional Outcome

If one side has more stake, provisional outcome is set. If tied, market goes directly to human adjudication.

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Illustration of automatic finalization when no challenge is submitted.

Unchallenged provisional outcome auto-finalizes

No-Challenge Auto Finalization

If challenge window expires with no valid challenge, final outcome automatically locks to the provisional result.

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Illustration of out-voted resolvers submitting exact double-down challenges.

Challenge action with exact double-down

Challenge Window

Out-voted resolvers can challenge within 24 hours by doubling down on their original stake.

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Illustration of human adjudicator choosing final YES or NO outcome.

Adjudicator decision stage

Human Adjudication

If challenged or tied, a human adjudicator sets the final YES/NO outcome.

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Illustration of resolver, market maker, and treasury payout splits.

Final payouts and treasury split

Settlement

Correct resolvers earn pooled rewards, challengers are settled by correctness, market maker earns dynamic rake, and treasury receives platform rake.