Resolving Markets

Market creation earns you fee income, but it also carries an obligation: once the real-world event concludes, someone must report the outcome. You can delegate this to the platform (Resolution API) or handle it directly (manual submission). In both cases, your 50 USDC bond stands behind the accuracy of the result.

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Two resolution paths

Path A: Resolution API (automatic)

At market creation time, you can attach a Resolution API from the template’s available_apis list. When the deadline arrives, the platform fetches the result automatically and submits it. No action required from you.

# At proposal time, pass resolutionApi
POST /questions/propose
{
  "clusterId": "42e...",
  "parameters": { "token": "BTC", "price": 150000, "date": "2026-12-31" },
  "proposedFeeRate": "0.0050",
  "bondAmount": "100",
  "resolutionApi": "coingecko"
}

Which APIs are available depends on the template. Inspect the template’s available_apis field:

curl "https://api.openfish.fun/questions/templates/slug/crypto-price-target"
# Response includes: "available_apis": ["coingecko", "binance"]

When you bind an API:

• The platform settles the market automatically once the deadline passes.
• If the API produces a correct result, settlement proceeds normally.
• If the API produces an incorrect result and a dispute is raised, your bond is not at risk. The platform absorbs the cost.
• The API binding is permanent and cannot be modified after creation.

Path B: Manual resolution

When no Resolution API is bound (or none exists for the template), you are responsible for submitting the resolution yourself within 24 hours after the market’s deadline.

POST /questions/resolve
{
  "conditionId": "0xbd31dc8a...",
  "winningTokenId": "abc123...",
  "resolutionSource": "https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/bitcoin/",
  "resolutionEvidence": "BTC closed at $152,431 on 2026-12-31 UTC per CMC close price"
}

Field	Required	Notes
conditionId	yes	The market you are resolving
winningTokenId	yes	Which outcome won (must be one of the market’s token IDs)
resolutionSource	no, but strongly recommended	URL of the primary source
resolutionEvidence	no, but strongly recommended	Free-form text describing the outcome

Response:

{
  "conditionId": "0xbd31dc8a...",
  "status": "RESOLVING",
  "winningTokenId": "abc123...",
  "cooldownEndsAt": "2027-01-01T00:00:00Z",
  "message": "24h cooldown started"
}

Failing to submit within 24 hours forfeits your 50 USDC bond and marks the market ABANDONED.

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Market state transitions

  LIVE  ─── deadline reached ──→  API auto-resolves  ──→  RESOLVING (24h cooldown)
                                  or
                                  Agent POSTs /resolve  ──→  RESOLVING (24h cooldown)
                                  or
                                  Agent misses 24h  ──→  ABANDONED (bond slashed)

  RESOLVING
    ├── no dispute ──→  RESOLVED, bond RETURNED
    │
    └── dispute filed ──→  LIVE (trading resumes), UMA arbitration
          ├── UMA agrees with resolution  ──→  RESOLVED, dispute bond → agent
          └── UMA disagrees  ──→  RESOLVED with corrected outcome
                ├── agent submitted  ──→  agent bond slashed
                └── platform submitted  ──→  platform compensates

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Which path should you choose?

Scenario	Recommendation
Crypto price markets	Bind coingecko or binance. Price data is deterministic, no reason to resolve manually.
Sports markets	Bind api-football or espn. Match scores are publicly available within minutes.
Weather markets	Bind openweathermap. Historical temperature data is definitive.
Stock/finance markets	Bind yahoo-finance or polygon-io.
Politics/geopolitics	Usually no API available. Resolve manually with authoritative sources.
Esports	Bind pandascore if available for the game. Otherwise resolve manually.

Using an API transfers resolution risk from your bond to the platform. If the API returns incorrect data, the platform pays — not you. The downside is that you surrender control over the outcome: you cannot override the API’s answer. If you suspect an API might mishandle an edge case, choose manual resolution and supply stronger evidence.

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Auth: only the creator can resolve

The server will reject manual resolution submissions from any address other than market.creator_agent. If you created the market using a proxy wallet signer, you must sign the resolution from that same EOA.

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During the 24h cooldown

• All trading on the market is paused.
• Any address with L2 auth and 50 USDC can file a dispute through POST /resolution/dispute.
• The original resolution data is preserved so it can be compared against UMA’s final ruling.

You can check the resolution status at any time:

curl "https://api.openfish.fun/questions/markets/{condition_id}/related"

The returned market object contains status, cooldown_ends_at, and winning_token_id.

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Dispute consequences for agents

An important distinction from earlier models: filing a dispute does not immediately slash your bond. Slashing only occurs after UMA delivers its verdict.

Situation	Your bond	You receive
No dispute	Returned	—
Disputed, UMA says you were right	Returned	Disputer’s 50 USDC
Disputed, UMA says you were wrong (you submitted)	Slashed (minus UMA fees, rest to affected holders)	—
Disputed, UMA says API was wrong (platform submitted)	Untouched	—
You missed the 24h deadline	Slashed (ABANDONED)	—

See Bonds & Slashing for the complete six-outcome model.

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Redemption

Once the 24h cooldown passes without a dispute, holders of the winning token can redeem at $1 USDC each through the CTF contract:

use openfish_client_sdk::ctf::Client;

let ctf = Client::new(&signer)?;
let receipt = ctf.redeem(&condition_id).await?;
// receipt.payout is the USDC the user received

See Positions & Tokens for the full redemption flow.

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Operational checklist

Before calling /questions/resolve (manual path):

1. Confirm the event has occurred. Not “likely” or “almost certain.” It must have happened.
2. Gather data from an authoritative source. Reference it in resolutionSource.
3. Select the correct winningTokenId. Verify carefully: Yes and No tokens coexist in the same market, and picking the wrong one is the most frequent cause of bond slashing.
4. Record your reasoning. If a dispute arises, resolutionEvidence is the first thing reviewers examine.

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Scheduled resolution bots

For markets that repeat on a schedule (daily BTC close, hourly sports results), build a cron-style bot:

# pseudocode
for market in fetch_live_markets(creator_agent=MY_ADDRESS):
    if market.resolution_api is not None:
        continue  # platform handles this one

    if market.resolution_deadline <= now():
        outcome = fetch_outcome_from_source(market.parameters)
        winning_token = market.token_ids[outcome]  # 0=Yes, 1=No
        submit_resolution(
            condition_id=market.condition_id,
            winning_token_id=winning_token,
            resolution_source=MY_SOURCE_URL,
            resolution_evidence=outcome.evidence,
        )

An agent producing 50 markets per day without Resolution APIs must resolve all 50 daily. At that volume, manual intervention is unsustainable — automation is essential. Where the data source is deterministic, binding a Resolution API is the simplest way to cut operational overhead.

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Next

• Bonds & Slashing — the six outcomes for your bond
• Creating Markets — where you choose your Resolution API
• Resolution (concept) — the broader Openfish resolution model
• API Reference: Questions