About Augur
Augur is a decentralized oracle. It tells apps on the blockchain what happened in the real world.
It launched on Ethereum in 2018 as a prediction market. Since 2025 the Lituus Foundation has led its restart, and the work now centers on Augur Lituus, one of the next versions of Augur’s oracle.
No company or committee should hold the final word on what happened.
The story so far
Over a decade on Ethereum, from a prediction market to an oracle for any app.
The crowdsale
Augur holds one of Ethereum’s first crowdsales to fund a decentralized prediction market.
Live on Ethereum
Augur launches on mainnet. REP holders settle disputed outcomes, and a fork is the last resort.
The restart
Long-time Augur community members restart the project in public as the Lituus Foundation, stewards of Augur’s treasury.
Generalized Augur
A draft proposal, shared for comment, for a universal and permissionless oracle that any application can ask.
The whitepaper
The Augur Lituus whitepaper sets out how the oracle works, with a comparative analysis of oracle security.
The Moon Fork
A dispute over whether NASA’s Artemis II lifted off escalated all the way to a fork: the first full run of Augur v2’s fork on Ethereum mainnet. When migration closed on 3 August, Yes had won.
99.97%of migrated REP moved to Yes, the answer that matched what happened.
Now
Building Augur Lituus
The core question flow is in place, and the work now focuses on disputes and forking.
Who does what
The Lituus Foundation funds independent teams to build Augur. Neither the Foundation nor the teams decide what the oracle answers.
Funds and coordinates
Lituus Foundation
Took on stewardship of Augur and its treasury in 2025. It funds more than one team working on the problem and reviews the Augur Lituus code against the whitepaper.
Engineers Augur Lituus
ChainSafe
Builds the Augur Lituus implementation in a public repository, and completed its first milestones in July 2026.
Builds Augur Statoblast
Dark Florist
An independent team funded by the Foundation. It builds Augur Statoblast, a prediction market on Zoltar, and pursues its own oracle research.
How the work is done
The work happens in public, so anyone can check it.
Open source
Augur Lituus and Zoltar are developed in public repositories, where anyone can follow or audit the work.
Research first
Each design is published for review before it is built. The whitepaper came out six months before the first implementation milestones.
Clear about status
Quarterly reports say what is done and what is still open, including the parts still being worked out.