Redeeming After Resolution

How to collect your USDT after a market resolves — winning redemption, cancelled markets, and fee breakdowns.

Overview

After a market resolves, participants with winning positions can redeem their shares for USDT. The entire process is on-chain — the oracle agent handles position reveal, and you trigger your own redemption with a single transaction.

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The Resolution to Redemption Timeline

Market deadline passes
       │
       ▼ (~2 minutes)
Oracle posts verdict on 0G Chain
       │
       ▼ (24 hours)
Challenge window expires
       │
       ▼ (~1 minute)
finalizeResolution called
       │
       ▼ (~2 minutes)
Oracle reveals all positions
       │
       ▼ (immediately)
Winners can redeem

Total time from deadline to redemption availability: ~24 hours (dominated by the challenge window). The challenge window exists to allow challenges to incorrect oracle verdicts — it cannot be skipped.

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Redeeming Winning Shares

1. Wait for Resolved status

   Navigate to your market. The status badge shows the current phase: Open → PendingResolution → Challenged → Resolved.

   When the status is Resolved, redemption is available.

2. Check your position

   The trade panel shows:

   • Your YES shares (if you bought YES)
   • Your NO shares (if you bought NO)
   • The final outcome (YES or NO)
   • Your estimated payout
3. Click Redeem

   If you have winning shares, a “Redeem Winnings” button appears. Click it and confirm the transaction in MetaMask.

   The contract calls redeemWinningShares() which transfers your USDT directly to your wallet.

4. Confirm receipt

   After the transaction confirms, check your USDT balance — it should have increased by your payout amount.

redeemWinningShares Function

// MarketContract.sol
function redeemWinningShares() external nonReentrant;

This function:

1. Verifies the market is Resolved
2. Reads your winning share balance from the PositionVault reveal data
3. Calculates your payout: (your winning shares / total winning shares) * (pool - fees)
4. Transfers USDT to your wallet
5. Burns your winning shares (prevents double redemption)

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What Happens If You Hold Losing Shares

Losing shares (YES shares on a NO resolution, or NO shares on a YES resolution) are worth $0.00. You do not need to do anything with them. They remain in your balance as zero-value tokens.

You cannot redeem losing shares — redeemWinningShares() checks your revealed position and only pays out if you were on the winning side.

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Cancelled Markets: redeemCancelledShares

If a market is cancelled (not resolved YES or NO, but cancelled due to an unresolvable question or oracle failure), every participant gets their USDT back regardless of which side they were on.

// MarketContract.sol
function redeemCancelledShares() external nonReentrant;

A cancelled redemption returns:

• Your original USDT deposit into the AMM
• Minus any fees already collected at trade time

This is the safety net for edge cases. A cancelled market is one where the AI oracle could not determine the outcome with sufficient confidence and no second inference changed that.

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Fee Deductions

Your payout is the winning pool minus protocol fees. The fee structure:

Fee	Who Receives It	What It Funds
Oracle fee	Oracle agent wallet	0G Compute inference costs
Market-maker fee	LiquidityPool	Protocol-owned liquidity replenishment
Protocol fee	Treasury address	Protocol development and operations

Fees are taken at the distribution level, not per-trade. The exact fee percentages and amounts are shown in the trade panel’s “Fee breakdown” before you trade.

Example payout calculation:

Pool at resolution: 10,000 USDT
Outcome: YES
Total YES shares outstanding: 5,000 shares
Your YES shares: 500 shares

Total fees: 200 USDT (2%)
Distributable pool: 9,800 USDT

Your payout: (500 / 5,000) * 9,800 = 980 USDT
Your profit: 980 - 500 = 480 USDT (cost was 500 USDT to buy the shares)

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Reading the Oracle’s Reasoning

After resolution, the oracle’s full reasoning is permanently stored on 0G Storage and accessible through the market page.

1. Navigate to the resolved market
2. Click “View Oracle Reasoning”
3. The app fetches the reasoning blob from 0G Storage via /api/og-storage?hash=0x...
4. You see the model’s full chain-of-thought: what evidence it found, what sources it checked, its confidence score, and why it chose YES or NO

This reasoning is immutable. The root hash stored in the contract commits to this exact content — if anyone modifies the content, the hash will not match. Permanent, tamper-proof oracle accountability.

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Troubleshooting

The Redeem button is grayed out

The market is not yet in Resolved status. Check the status badge — if it shows Challenged, the 24-hour challenge window has not expired yet. Wait for it to expire and for finalizeResolution to be called.

I have winning shares but the payout shows $0

Your position may not have been revealed yet. The oracle reveals positions after ResolutionFinalized — this can take 1–2 minutes. Refresh the page and check again.

My USDT balance did not increase after redemption

Check the transaction on 0G ChainScan. If the transaction succeeded, your balance should have updated. You may need to add the USDT token to MetaMask manually (token address: 0xc2B0D2A7e858F13B349843fF87dBF4EBF9227F49, decimals: 6).

The market shows Cancelled — can I get my money back?

Yes. Click “Redeem Cancelled Shares” (instead of “Redeem Winnings”). You will receive your original USDT back minus any fees taken at trade time.

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Next Steps

Create Another Market

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