Rewards & Incentives

Creator fee shares, dispute voter rewards, and the liquidity rewards program.

Aura offers compelling rewards and incentives to encourage active participation, accurate predictions, and effective governance within the community.

Market creator rewards

Market creators are essential to the Aura ecosystem and earn a share of every trade on the markets they spawn:

• Tier-scaled share — creators receive between 1% and 30% of the 2.5% trading fee, scaling with their staked $AURA tier.
• Paid in USDT — fee shares are distributed in USDT and accrue with every fill, claimable at any time.

Tier	Creator’s cut of the trading fee
Degenerate	30%
Diamond	22%
Platinum	16%
Gold	11%
Silver	7%
Bronze	3%
Iron	1%

The remainder of the fee flows to the protocol treasury, which funds liquidity rewards, dispute incentives, referral payouts, and ongoing development.

Dispute voter rewards

Aura’s dispute system rewards voters who back the correct outcome — but it does so through slashing, not by skimming USDT fees. The result is strictly aligned: the wrong side of a controversial market literally funds the right side.

• Wrong-side voters — anyone who reveals a vote for the losing outcome has a portion of their vaulted $AURA slashed.
• Silent stakers — voters who committed but never revealed (or never committed at all) are penalized too, since silent voters undermine the oracle.
• Slashed $AURA flows into a per-market penalty pool.
• Winning voters claim from the pool, weighted by their voting tier.

Because the pool is denominated in $AURA, dispute voters earn$AURA — a direct tie between governance participation and protocol ownership. See Resolution & Disputes for the full flow.

Voting on a dispute is not free. If you back the wrong side, you lose $AURA. Vote only on markets where you’ve done the homework.

Referral rewards

Refer a trader to Aura with your unique referral link, and you earn 10% of the treasury’s share of every trade they ever make on Aura. Payouts are claimable directly from your dashboard.

Liquidity rewards

Aura runs a daily liquidity rewards program to keep markets tight and tradeable. Makers who post qualifying resting limit orders near each market’s true midpoint earn a share of a daily USDT reward pool.

Overview

By quoting on the order book, liquidity providers are automatically eligible. The program is designed to:

• Strengthen liquidity across all markets
• Maintain liquidity throughout each market’s lifecycle
• Encourage balanced, midpoint-adjacent quoting
• Support real trading activity
• Discourage obvious reward farming

This design draws from proven LP incentive frameworks and is adapted for Aura’s binary markets with distinct YES/NO books.

Funding & payouts

Trading fee	2.5% on executed volume, collected in USDT
Liquidity rewards pool	10% of trading fees
Daily pool	0.25% of executed volume for the day
Payouts	Daily, distributed automatically to the wallet that provided liquidity

Adjusted midpoint (anti-manipulation)

The midpoint used for scoring is computed after filtering out small “dust” orders below a minimum incentive size. This prevents tiny orders from shifting the midpoint and farming rewards.

Scoring

Orders are scored by distance from the adjusted midpoint and by size. Closer quotes earn sharply more rewards.

Variable	Description
S	Order position scoring function
v	Max spread from midpoint
s	Spread from adjusted midpoint
b	Market multiplier
c	Single-sided penalty (3.0)
Q_one	Points on book one
Q_two	Points on book two
Q_min	Two-sided score
Q_normal	Normalized score
Q_epoch	Epoch score
Q_final	Final reward share
BidSize	Size of bid orders at a price level
AskSize	Size of ask orders at a price level
Spread_m	Distance from midpoint for market m
Spread_m'	Distance from midpoint for the complement market

Equation 1 — order position score:

$$S(v,s) = \left(\frac{v - s}{v}\right)^2 \cdot b$$

Equation 2 — book one points:

$$Q_{one} = \sum S(v, Spread_m) \cdot BidSize_m + \sum S(v, Spread_{m'}) \cdot AskSize_{m'}$$

Equation 3 — book two points:

$$Q_{two} = \sum S(v, Spread_m) \cdot AskSize_m + \sum S(v, Spread_{m'}) \cdot BidSize_{m'}$$

Equation 4 — two-sided score:

If midpoint is between 0.10 and 0.90:

$$Q_{min} = \max\!\left( \min(Q_{one}, Q_{two}),\ \max(Q_{one}/c,\ Q_{two}/c) \right)$$

If midpoint is below 0.10 or above 0.90:

$$Q_{min} = \min(Q_{one}, Q_{two})$$

Equation 5 — normalize across makers:

$$Q_{normal} = \frac{Q_{min}}{\sum Q_{min}}$$

Equation 6 — sum across the epoch:

$$Q_{epoch} = \sum Q_{normal}$$

Equation 7 — final share of pool:

$$Q_{final} = \frac{Q_{epoch}}{\sum Q_{epoch}}$$

Daily reward for a maker:

$$Reward = Q_{final} \cdot DailyPool$$