1. The loop
OmenMarketMaker starts the flywheel
A new court faces a cold start: without a track record nobody hires it, and without customers it never builds one. OmenMarketMaker breaks that circle. Every market it runs buys one court case at the court's full price, and every finished case adds measured evidence about the jurors: the record that wins customer two.
2. Why a market first
A market brings cases and reasons to challenge them
Bettors have money riding on different answers. Someone who disputes a ruling can fund the next appeal in the route chosen before the case began. That payment buys fresh jury work and reserves money for possible audits.
- Market requests a rulingContributions complete the initial court payment.
- A disputed ruling can be appealedContributors fund the next agreed jury in time.
- The case becomes finalThe market settles. Qualifying appeal results and audits update juror records.
More appeals do not guarantee a correct answer, and an unchallenged ruling is not a quality grade for every juror. See when the route ends and audits begin.
3. What a market buys
Each market buys one case at the court's own price
When a market becomes eligible for resolution, OmenMarketMaker calculates the exact court fee by fixed rules. Anyone can chip in toward that amount (one wallet alone, or many together), and the contribution that completes it pays DemoThemis and opens the case in one transaction. All outcome collateral stays in OmenMarketMaker escrow while the jury works, and OmenMarketMaker's market fee, margin, and treasury never mix with the court's money.
The fee is assembled from published parts
At request time, the versioned fee policy adds four parts: processing cost, required panel compensation, a reward-pool contribution, and a capped operations charge. The published formula keeps contributing to the pool regardless of its balance. Operations can never exceed the approved public budget or the per-case cap. Contributors advance the complete fee before any juror is selected.
As case volume rises, the fee pays more when each eligible juror carries more work, and less when supply catches up. Market rates can change between one-minute pricing batches under the same published formula. Notice applies to changing that formula, not ordinary demand changes. Filing fixes the rule. Each later appeal locks its quote when its funding window opens. See the demand calculation and payment boundaries.
Every ending has one fixed rule for the fee
Contributors are paid back from market backing, each exactly what they put in, before winning claims and the Omen fee are paid.
A ruling that still stands after every funded appeal leaves the fee with the court, and no Omen fee is charged. What happens next depends on the clock:
Before the final fallback time, a new funding panel can open after the cooldown. The original backing stays unchanged and new YES or NO tokens remain closed to minting.
At the final fallback time, the market voids instead. Each side's backing returns to its own holders.
One rule guards the whole path: if the exact fee would be at least the entire pool, no bond is accepted, no case opens, and the market follows its precommitted cancellation rule.
4. What a case proves
Every completed case extends the quality record
Every completed case extends service history. The Beta calculation changes only for a final appeal confirming a juror’s vote against their own round, or a final Careless audit after challenges. One case contributes once. Research helps auditors check the work, but does not directly change the score.
A published price, delivery record or election result may help an auditor assess the juror’s original work. It is not an automatic answer key for Beta. Unchallenged majority agreement is not a quality test. The audit explanation shows what counts and who pays.
5. The payoff
A stronger court attracts the next customer
OmenMarketMaker pays only for the cases it actually sends, and the measured results of those cases become the performance record DemoThemis can show every application after it.
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One paying customer
Service fees pay jurors, every completed case extends one shared private quality history, and public verdicts with privacy-preserving proofs make that history verifiable without exposing jurors.
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Every kind of case
Anyone can submit a well-defined case and fund its jurors: escrowed work, creator payouts, marketplace refunds, governance questions, and stand-alone disputes.
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The default court
Signed ruling receipts and aggregate accuracy signals let a new app verify the court's record instead of rebuilding a support desk.
Each stage adds both demand and evidence, and the neutral rules that made the first verdicts useful never change.