Permissionless
Anyone can ask.Anyone can answer.
Ask a question, report what happened or challenge an answer you believe is wrong.
The frontier of decentralized truth.
Real-world answers for onchain apps, controlled by no one.
Augur Lituus is Augur’s next-generation oracle: it tells blockchain apps what happened in the real world. Anyone can answer, anyone can challenge, and lying is designed to cost more than ever before.
Smart contracts
can't see the world.
Blockchain apps need to know what happened before they pay out or act.
With Augur, no middleman controls the answers.
Trustless
No governance.No multisigs.
No company, developer or governing body can overrule the outcome of a dispute.
Robust
Harder to game.Costlier to manipulate.
Designed with economic defenses against false outcomes that set a new bar.
The answer is nobody’s call.
For traders
You’ve probably seen a market misresolve. Here, no authority decides the outcome.
For builders
One bad resolution can turn into a PR disaster. With Augur Lituus, your team isn’t the judge.
What can Augur Lituus power?
Any protocol or app that needs to know what happened in the world.
Markets on any question with a result people can check: sports, elections, launches, weather or company news.
Query.Status: Final.
Will this year be the hottest on record?
Market:
$1
Paid per Yes share
Augur Lituus:
Yes
Not challenged.
For builders
Markets settle once the answer is final, and no one on the team has to decide who won. A challenged result is settled in the open, so it isn’t the team’s to defend.
Coverage and payments that trigger when something measurable happens: a delayed flight, a missed delivery, a storm or a canceled event.
Query.Status: Final.
Will flight AB123 land over 2 hours late?
- Flight AB123: Landed, 2 h 45 min late.
- Augur Lituus: Yes. Not challenged.
- Delay cover: Paid, Every policyholder.
For builders
Payouts run once the delay is confirmed, with no claims to review. An insurance app could also use a faster oracle and turn to Augur Lituus only when a claim is disputed.
Upgrades and proposals checked against a DAO’s written rules: its constitution and mission.
Query.Status: Final.
Does this upgrade break a DAO rule?
Treasury upgrade:Blocked,It won’t go live.
Augur Lituus: Yes.
Not challenged.
For builders
Every upgrade is checked against the DAO’s own rules by a process the core team doesn’t control. Changes within the constitution can still go live.
Good for users.
Easier for projects.
- Stay out of the middle. Disputes settle in the open. The project never picks a side.
- No team to hire. Pay per question instead of running resolution in-house.
- Win user trust. Users can check and challenge independent outcomes.
Know what happened?
Get paid to report it.
Every Augur Lituus answer has REP staked behind it. Be right and you’re paid. Be wrong and you lose your stake.
Anyone can ask.A fee funds the reward.
The reward grows until someone reports what happened.
Report what you saw.Stake REP on it.
No challenge in time? Your stake comes back with the reward.
Think it’s wrong?Stake double theirs.
The time to challenge starts again on your answer.
No new stake in time?The answer is final.
Whoever backed it wins most of the losing stake.
- Ask
Say someone asks, “Has room-temperature superconductivity been independently demonstrated at ambient pressure?” They set the rules for judging it and pay a fee in REP. Part of it pays whoever first backs the right answer; the rest is burned. In this example, the fee is 15 REP.
- Report
Anyone can report. Here, someone reports YES and stakes 15 REP on it, the same as the fee.
- Challenge
You think the reporter is wrong, so you challenge with NO and stake 30 REP on it, double theirs. The time to challenge starts again, and now anyone can challenge you.
- Get paid
No one challenges you in time, so the final answer is NO. You get your 30 REP back, plus 12 REP from the reporter’s stake, plus the reward. The other 3 REP of their stake is burned.
Holding REP?
Earn REP
Report or challenge when you know what happened, and get paid in REP when your answer holds.
- Stay in the loop Holding is mostly hands-off. If a fork ever starts, there’s a window to move your REP to the answer you believe in.
The road to
Augur Lituus.
The research is published and the build is underway.
Completed · 2025
Augur starts again.
The Lituus Foundation restarted Augur in March 2025. In May it proposed Generalized Augur: a universal, permissionless oracle for any application.
Completed · 29 January 2026
The design, published.
The Augur Lituus whitepaper sets out how the oracle works, with a comparative analysis of oracle security.
The paper
Augur Lituus Whitepaper
PDF · January 2026
AugurProject/whitepaper on GitHub
Completed · Augur v2 · 3 August 2026
A fork, run live.
Augur v2's fork mechanism completed its first live run on Ethereum mainnet. REP holders migrated to the universe they backed, and Yes won.
REP migrated, by universe
Yes universe6,398,081 REP
No universe1,786 REP
6.4 million REP in total, about 58.2% of the original 11 million supply. Fork report, 5 August 2026.
In progress · first milestones completed in July 2026
Building Augur Lituus.
ChainSafe is engineering Augur Lituus, and the Foundation reviews the work against the whitepaper. The current focus is dispute resolution and forking.
Automated tests in the implementation
Start of the quarterAbout 40
End of the quarter300+
Across 22 merged pull requests. Q2 2026 report, 1 October 2026.
Up next · 2027
Tested and audited.
Before applications can depend on Augur Lituus, the implementation has to be tested, audited and explained in plain language.
Goals for the coming quarter
- Continue implementation and testing
- Publish a plain-language walkthrough of Augur Lituus
Q2 2026 report, 1 October 2026.
Then · 2027
Ready for applications.
Augur Lituus is designed for the prediction markets, protocols and apps that call on it when a real-world outcome is disputed.
A whitepaper does not resolve markets by itself; the design has to be implemented, tested, audited, documented, and made usable.
From “Augur Is Testing Its Past and Building Its Future”, 21 July 2026.