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When a market’s outcome is contested, staked $AURA holders settle it by vote. Voting with the winning side pays twice. Voting with the losing side costs you. This is the only Aura program where you can lose money, and that is the entire point: it is what makes the oracle trustworthy.

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What you earn

Voting correctly pays in two different assets.

Slashed $AURA

Every voter on the losing side is slashed 0.1% of their vaulted $AURA. The slashed tokens form a per-market penalty pool, split among the winning voters by vote weight.

A USDT cut of the fees

A market resolved through a dispute vote pays its winning voters 10% of the trading fees that market collected, split by vote weight.
The fee share only applies to markets that were actually disputed. An undisputed market pays voters nothing, because there was no work to do.

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What you risk

Committing and then going quiet is treated as a wrong vote, not as abstaining. A commit that never reveals stalls resolution for everyone else, so the protocol penalizes it rather than letting it be a free option. If you commit, set a reminder and reveal.
Slashing is capped protocol-wide at 1% of everything staked per rolling 24-hour window. If penalties would exceed that, they are clamped rather than reverted, so a pathological dispute cannot cascade through the vault.

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How voting works

Voting is commit and reveal, in two phases, so nobody can see the tally forming and pile onto the likely winner.
1

A dispute opens

Someone posts a 100 USDT bond challenging the proposed outcome. That opens a 24-hour commit window.
2

Commit your vote (24 hours)

Submit a hash of your vote plus a secret. Nothing about your choice is visible on-chain. Your vote weight is snapshotted from your vault balance at this moment.
3

Reveal your vote (1 hour)

Publish the vote and the secret. The contract checks it against your commit hash. Miss this window and you are penalized.
4

Penalties and rewards finalize

Once every commit has been revealed or penalized, the outcome locks in. Rewards are sent automatically. Nothing to claim.
Overturning the proposed outcome requires a 65% supermajority. Short of that, the market restarts rather than flipping on a narrow margin.
Your vote weight is fixed at commit time. Staking more during the reveal window does not increase your weight, and unstaking does not shrink your exposure to being slashed. See Outcome voting for the full mechanics.

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Voting well

Disputes are almost always about wording, not facts. The question might be “Will X happen?” while the rules name a specific source and a specific deadline. The rules are what the vote is on.
If the rules say a particular source is authoritative, what that source says is the answer, even if you personally know better.
Expected value on a coin flip is negative here. You risk 0.1% of your stake to earn a share of other people’s mistakes, so voting without an edge just donates to voters who have one.
If the outcome genuinely is not determinable yet, that is what to vote. It returns the market to trading rather than forcing a wrong resolution. It does not cancel the market or refund anyone.

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Can you vote on a market you traded?

Yes. There is no on-chain restriction, and there is no practical way to enforce one, because anyone determined to get around it would use a second wallet. What keeps votes honest is economics rather than gatekeeping: the 65% supermajority means one motivated trader cannot swing an outcome, and the 0.1% slash means being wrong on purpose has a cost that scales with your stake.

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Voting on disputes

Step-by-step walkthrough of a real dispute.

Resolution and disputes

The full resolution lifecycle, bonds, and windows.

Staking $AURA

How to stake and what vote weight you get.

Tier structure

What each tier unlocks.
Last modified on July 29, 2026