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Disputes & Voting

Oracles can be wrong — data sources get manipulated, rules get misread. Astromarkets provides a correction path: staked disputes + public voting + DAO review.

Timeline (mainnet windows)​

Result submitted
  │
  ├── 24h dispute window: StartDispute (staked challenge)
  ▼
status: Dispute
  │
  ├── 48h voting window: Vote (stake USDC to take a side)
  ├── 24h cooling period
  ▼
SubmitFinalMarketResult (writes the majority result)
  │
  ▼
status: Final Cooling (24h)
  │
  ├── optional: RequestDaoReview ──► DAO Review ──► DAO can override at threshold
  ▼
ConfirmFinalResult ──► Settlement

Raising a Dispute​

While the market is Result Submitted and within the 24h window, the sidebar shows the dispute panel:

  • Submitted result — the current oracle result;
  • Required stake — equal to the creator's security deposit (≥600 USDC);
  • Your claim — the result you assert, which must differ from the current one (Yes ↔ No).

Click Raise Dispute and sign; on-chain StartDispute:

  1. creates the dispute account with a voting deadline (+48h) and cooling deadline (+72h);
  2. moves your stake into the dispute vault;
  3. sets the market status to Dispute.
Disputing is high-risk

If voting / DAO upholds the original result, your stake is paid in full to the market creator. Dispute only with solid evidence. Conversely, if you win you receive your stake back + the creator's entire deposit.

Voting​

Once the market is in Dispute, anyone can vote during the 48h window:

  1. Pick a position:
    • Support — back the disputer (the original result is wrong);
    • Oppose — back the original result;
  2. Enter a USDC amount — 1 USDC = 1 vote; your weight is your stake;
  3. Click Submit Vote (Vote); USDC moves to the dispute vault and your vote record is created.

Voting Payoffs​

After settlement:

  • Winning-side voters: ClaimVoteReward returns your principal + a pro-rata share of the entire losing pool;
  • Losing-side voters: stake fully forfeited to the winners.

Reward formula: reward = principal + principal × losing_pool / winning_pool

Dispute Info in the UI​

During a dispute the trading page shows two cards:

  • My Dispute — all your positions in this dispute: your claim and stake as disputer, your side and amount as voter, plus win/loss and claim status after settlement;
  • Dispute Details — the full picture: submitted result, disputer address and claim, stake, the three time windows (dispute / vote / cooling, with a current-phase badge), live Support / Oppose tallies in USDC, and the final outcome.

After Voting Ends​

Once the cooling period (24h) elapses, anyone calls SubmitFinalMarketResult:

  • support > oppose → adopt the disputer's claim;
  • otherwise → keep the original result;

and the market enters Final Cooling (another 24h).

DAO Review (the last line of defense)​

If you believe the vote still got it wrong, anyone can call RequestDaoReview during Final Cooling (the proposed result must differ from the current one), moving the market to DAO Review:

  • the DAO is defined by a global config: up to 10 members with an M-of-N approval threshold;
  • members call ApproveDaoProposal one by one;
  • once approvals reach the threshold, ConfirmFinalResult overrides the result with the proposal and enters Settlement;
  • if Final Cooling expires with no review (or the review never reaches threshold), ConfirmFinalResult confirms the standing result into Settlement.

The three layers (oracle → voting → DAO) escalate progressively: most markets take the fully automated happy path, contested ones are decided by economic games, and the extreme cases fall back to governance.