> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.aura.markets/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Dispute Voting Rewards

> Vote correctly on contested market outcomes and earn slashed $AURA plus a share of the market's trading fees. Backing a losing outcome costs you stake.

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.

## What you earn

Voting correctly pays in **two different assets**.

<CardGroup cols={2}>
  <Card title="Slashed $AURA" icon="coins">
    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.
  </Card>

  <Card title="A USDT cut of the fees" icon="dollar-sign">
    A market resolved through a dispute vote pays its winning voters **10% of the
    trading fees that market collected**, split by vote weight.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>

The fee share only applies to markets that were actually disputed. An undisputed
market pays voters nothing, because there was no work to do.

## What you risk

| Situation                         | Consequence                                   |
| --------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------- |
| You voted for the winning outcome | Paid from the penalty pool plus the fee share |
| You voted for the losing outcome  | 0.1% of your vaulted \$AURA slashed           |
| You committed but never revealed  | Penalized, same as voting wrong               |
| You never committed at all        | Penalized                                     |
| You hold no stake                 | Cannot vote                                   |

<Warning>
  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.
</Warning>

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.

## How voting works

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

<Steps>
  <Step title="A dispute opens">
    Someone posts a 100 USDT bond challenging the proposed outcome. That opens a
    24-hour commit window.
  </Step>

  <Step title="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.
  </Step>

  <Step title="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.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Penalties and rewards finalize">
    Once every commit has been revealed or penalized, the outcome locks in.
    Rewards are sent automatically. Nothing to claim.
  </Step>
</Steps>

Overturning the proposed outcome requires a **65% supermajority**. Short of that,
the market restarts rather than flipping on a narrow margin.

<Note>
  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](/governance/outcome-voting) for the full
  mechanics.
</Note>

## Voting well

<AccordionGroup>
  <Accordion title="Read the market's rules, not the question" icon="book-open">
    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.
  </Accordion>

  <Accordion title="Check the resolution source the rules name" icon="magnifying-glass">
    If the rules say a particular source is authoritative, what that source says
    is the answer, even if you personally know better.
  </Accordion>

  <Accordion title="Do not vote on markets you did not research" icon="triangle-exclamation">
    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.
  </Accordion>

  <Accordion title="TOO_EARLY is a real option" icon="clock">
    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.
  </Accordion>
</AccordionGroup>

## 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.

## Next

<CardGroup cols={2}>
  <Card title="Voting on disputes" icon="gavel" href="/tutorials/voting-on-disputes">
    Step-by-step walkthrough of a real dispute.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Resolution and disputes" icon="scale-balanced" href="/markets/resolution-and-disputes">
    The full resolution lifecycle, bonds, and windows.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Staking $AURA" icon="vault" href="/tokens/staking">
    How to stake and what vote weight you get.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Tier structure" icon="layer-group" href="/tokens/tier-structure">
    What each tier unlocks.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>