Become a Jury — Clouded

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a Jury NFT holder is both a curator of what matters and a guardian of what is true.

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Three Core Responsibilities

Create

Submit new prediction markets by staking NFTs as collateral.

Outcome

Vote on the real outcome. The majority jury vote becomes the official on-chain result — or challenge the result and appeal to the Clouded DAO for a final DAO vote.

Entropy

Every staker's reveal contributes their private salt to a shared random seed via XOR. More participants means more entropy, making jury selection harder to predict or manipulate.

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Stake During the Market, Not After

Jury holders stake their NFTs to vote on a specific outcome while the market is still ongoing. Each vote is first committed then revealed after the market ends. This ensures no one can see others' votes during the commit phase.

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Random Selection from Reveal Entropy

Not every staked NFT decides the outcome. During the reveal phase, each staker reveals a private salt submitted beforehand; the contract accumulates a random seed by XOR-ing every salt together. From the full pool, up to 1/5 are selected (capped at 300) to form the jury panel. Because the seed is only finalised once every staker reveals, no single participant can predict or skew the selection — and no external oracle is needed.

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Slashing

If you are selected as a juror but did not reveal your outcome, or your outcome does not match the final resolved result, your NFT is slashed. Slashed NFTs are burned and the redemption value — 3 HYPE — is sent to the DAO to buy back and burn governance tokens.

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Rewards for Correct Jurors

Jurors who vote with the winning outcome share 10% of the total market reward pool (bonding pool + prize pool), split proportionally by stake count. The market challenger also receives their proportional cut from this 10% if being correct. Each juror will also receive a reward of DAO tokens based on the days the market lasts.

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Protocol Security in the Long Run

DAO tokens can be used to vote in challenged markets, where the DAO overrides a contested jury decision. This closes a self-reinforcing loop:

Earn

Vote honestly as a juror → earn rewards → gain DAO tokens → gain voting power in governance disputes.

Lose

Vote dishonestly → NFT slashed → value sent to DAO → DAO tokens bought back and burned → circulating supply shrinks, remaining tokens appreciate.

A Jury must keep voting correctly to keep accumulating tokens. Dishonest actors self-fund the protocol's defenses. No central authority is needed — the incentive structure enforces truth.