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

# 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.

***

## Redeeming Winning Shares

<Steps>
  <Step title="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.
  </Step>

  <Step title="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
  </Step>

  <Step title="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.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Confirm receipt">
    After the transaction confirms, check your USDT balance — it should have increased by your payout amount.
  </Step>
</Steps>

### redeemWinningShares Function

```solidity theme={null}
// 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)

***

## 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.

***

## 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.

```solidity theme={null}
// 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)
```

***

## 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.

***

## Troubleshooting

<AccordionGroup>
  <Accordion title="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.
  </Accordion>

  <Accordion title="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.
  </Accordion>

  <Accordion title="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).
  </Accordion>

  <Accordion title="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.
  </Accordion>
</AccordionGroup>

***

## Next Steps

<CardGroup cols={2}>
  <Card title="Create Another Market" icon="plus-circle" href="/docs/user-guide/create-market">
    Deploy a new prediction market on any topic
  </Card>

  <Card title="Understand Resolution" icon="cpu" href="/docs/concepts/resolution">
    Deep dive into how the AI oracle determines outcomes
  </Card>
</CardGroup>