Post a yes/no question with a bounty. Others bond an answer, anyone can challenge, and stake settles the truth.
Answering
open for bonded answers
Aggregating
tallying weighted votes
Disputed
contested, escalates to council
Settled
verified, payouts fire
Most questions settle on the optimistic path. The council only convenes when truth is genuinely contested.
Five steps, mostly automatic. The optimistic path settles in minutes; escalation only fires when someone bonds against an answer.
Deposit a bounty and post a verifiable YES/NO question on-chain. Optionally register a callback to fire on settlement.
Anyone stakes a bond asserting the answer. Unchallenged within the window, it settles and the bond returns with the bounty.
Post a counter-bond claiming the opposite outcome. The optimistic path closes and resolution moves to reputation-weighted voting.
If no answer holds a clear weighted supermajority, bonded council members vote. Quorum settles the winning side.
Winning bonds return with reward, wrong bonds are slashed, reputation updates, and a callback CPI fires into any registered program.
Cassie does not ask you to trust a name. It makes honesty the rational, profitable move, and lets accuracy compound into influence over time.
Every answer and every dispute is backed by a token bond. Being right returns your stake with reward; being wrong forfeits it to the people who corrected you. Honesty is the profitable move.
Vote with the truth and your reputation grows, weighting your future voice. Vote against settled outcomes and it decays. Influence is earned over time, never bought.
Most oracles centralize trust by default. Cassie inverts it: decentralized resolution is the norm, and human judgment is the rare, bounded, accountable exception.
99% of questions settle optimistically with no vote at all. The council only convenes when reputation-weighted voting cannot cleanly resolve a contested outcome.
Council membership, mandate, and every ruling are on-chain and auditable. Authority is scoped to disputed edge cases — never to routine answers.
Council members are bonded and accountable. A bad-faith ruling is economically punished, keeping the backstop honest.
Permissionless, composable, bonded by design. No API keys, no gatekeepers, no trusted middleman.