Authensus

About Authensus

Radical Authenticity

Welcome to Authensus, the world's first Decision Market for authenticity

The Truth Crisis

Legacy media lacks accountability, and AI slop poisons our feeds. Centralised solutions are black boxes telling us what to think. We recognise your concern — it's difficult to believe we have a say in truth anymore.

Human-First Consensus

Authensus emphasises conversation and evolving consensus. Built on the Solana blockchain, Authensus provides a truly democratic platform where status has no bearing on your say in the conversation.

Oracle-Free Resolution

Pioneering total self-containment, Authensus requires no external oracles for market resolution. It is a true court of public opinion, guided by its participants.

So… Let's begin
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About Authensus

What is Authensus?

Authensus is a consensus-resolved decision market for authenticity. Participants place USDC bets and cast votes on questions of content authenticity, with outcomes resolved through participant consensus rather than external oracles.

What is a consensus-resolved decision market?

A decision market aggregates distributed judgment into a collective outcome. Authensus applies this model to authenticity questions, letting independent participants collectively evaluate whether a piece of content is genuine, accurate, original, or transparent, without relying on any centralised authority.

How Authensus differs from oracle-based prediction markets

Most prediction markets rely on external oracles — centralised services that report real-world outcomes to settle contracts. Authensus eliminates this dependency entirely. Resolution is determined by participants through a structured betting-and-voting mechanism, making the platform self-contained and resistant to external manipulation.

Why participant consensus matters

Centralised oracles introduce a single point of failure and trust. Participant consensus distributes that responsibility across independent actors with genuine stakes in the outcome. On Authensus, authenticity is determined by the collective judgment of the people who use the platform, not by a gatekeeper.

What Authensus can be used for

Authensus markets evaluate digital content, news articles, AI-generated material, and any information where crowd-sourced consensus around authenticity is valuable. The platform breaks authenticity into eight measurable facets: Authority, Transparency, Earnestness, Interactivity, Truthfulness, Comprehensiveness, Originality, and Anthropogenicity. This enables nuanced evaluation of content rather than a single binary judgment.

Authensus vs oracle-based prediction markets

FeatureAuthensusOracle-based markets
Resolution methodParticipant consensusExternal oracle
Oracle dependencyNoneRequired
Trust modelDistributed among participantsCentralised in, or deferred to, an external oracle
Question typesSubjective authenticity questionsVerifiable real-world events
Incentive designBetting and voting required for full payoutBetting only; oracle resolves

How Does It Work?

The Concept

Authensus markets use a combination betting-and-voting mechanism to determine consensus around authenticity while allowing users to earn, without relying on external oracles.

Asset Creation

An asset is created from the tokenisation of a piece of content. At this time, a market timeout is set.

Betting and Voting Phase

Markets open for betting and voting. Anyone can place USDC bets for or against specific facets of authenticity until the timeout is reached. Users can also cast votes using Voting Tokens. You'll get only one vote per market, but can redeem as many tokens as you like in a single vote.

Vote Counting Phase

A 48-hour vote counting window opens. Users who have committed to votes have their tokens cast accordingly, and their votes are revealed.

Consolidation

The winning side is determined by vote consensus. If you bet/voted on the losing side, you lose your stake.

Payouts

Winners on the correct side get paid: Voters get paid out 1:1 in USDC. Bettors get a USDC refund + winnings in Voting Tokens (from the losing side's pot).

The Cycle Continues

Markets are re-initialised. Users can restart the process for new rounds. Truth is an ongoing process.

Frequently Asked Questions

Content can be uploaded to Authensus and 'Authensised'. This creates an asset on-chain, as well as markets and their timeout, which is set at upload time. This is currently performed only by Authensus. If you find something you'd like to see on the platform, make a request to @authensus on X.
Facets are the categories into which Authensus has divided the aspects of content authenticity. Any piece of content can have a set of markets created around it in which users can participate. Authensus provides eight Facets from which market creators can choose: Authority, Transparency, Earnestness, Interactivity, Truthfulness, Comprehensiveness, Originality, and Anthropogenicity.
authority:Is the author an authority on the matter?
transparency:Is the content presented transparently, without obstruction?
earnestness:Is the content presented in earnest or performatively?
interactivity:Is there room for discourse around the content?
truthfulness:Is the content truthful or baseless?
comprehensiveness:Is the content comprehensive or is it looking at the subject myopically?
originality:Is the content original or contrived/plagiarised?
anthropogenicity:Is the content made organically (by a human) or synthetically (by a machine)?
To earn USDC on Authensus, you need to redeem Voting Tokens ($AUTH) by placing votes with the consensus in markets. $AUTH is won by winning in betting markets. Authensus requires users to take part in both betting and voting to make profit.
Voters win back their vote amounts 1:1 in USDC. Bettors receive back their USDC bets, plus winnings paid out in Voting Tokens. The winnings are taken from the total amount of bets placed on the losing side of the market. Winnings are distributed in proportion to the amount bet on the winning side. If your bet was 5% of the total on the winning side, you get 5% of the winnings.
$AUTH can only be used in the Authensus voting mechanism. There is no way of transferring them to others, nor can they be sold on exchanges.
Every first-time user is automatically categorised as 'Anonymous'. This allows anyone to take part in betting and voting, but their votes won't count towards consensus. With higher tiers, users are able to contribute to consensus, and receive higher payouts from winning bets and votes.
Users can request tier upgrades by contacting @authensus on X, or by messaging the team on Telegram. The team will assess your track record and see if it's appropriate for you to be upgraded.
There are four tiers. In ascending order of privileges, these are: Anonymous, Verified, Pro, and Power.
The minimum allowed bet is 0.001 USDC. The minimum allowed vote amount is 0.001 $AUTH.
You can place bets on any market of any asset for which you are not the author. If you are the author of an asset, then you can only bet in favour of any of its markets, and not against. You also cannot place a bet in a market in which you have already placed an Underdog Bet.
There are more restrictions on voting than on betting. You cannot place votes on any market of an asset for which you are the author. You cannot place a vote in a market in which you have an active bet. To prevent coordinated attacks on the voting mechanism, only a random set of voting markets will be available to you at any one time, determined by a Voting Modulus governance parameter. The current value of the Voting Modulus is 1, which means that on average about 100% of markets in the voting phase will be available to you.
The Underdog Bet allows a user to place bets on both sides of a market, but with higher favour on the less popular side. The direction in which you move the slider to place the bet does not make a difference, as Authensus only uses the magnitude of the bet to place it. Once the betting state is over, your Underdog Bet is divided between the two sides of the wager market in inverse proportion to the normal bets placed by all of the other users. The bet is blind, so not only can you not see what other users have done, but you do not know what the split of your bet will be. You cannot place an underdog bet if you already have an active bet, or if you are the author of the asset.
In this case you have two options: you can place a bet instead of a vote, so that you're not voting against what you actually think; or you can use a delayed vote, so that you can vote honestly for a time when you think people will have come round to your opinion.
You can place a delayed vote in the first round of a market. The vote can be revealed at any time up to and including the deadline that you set (say, round 3). If your delayed vote is correct when you reveal it, and it was the opposite of the first round outcome, then you will receive a bonus on top of your winnings. This is a reward for those who see the truth early.
Authensus has been designed in such a way as to incentivise users to place votes on authenticity in an honest way, without holding onto $AUTH for too long. If you win a bet, we don't want you to run off immediately! We still want you to vote honestly. So if you win a bet, you'll get your wager back, but to redeem extra winnings, we require you to place votes with the consensus.
Betting is the mechanism by which $AUTH can be minted to users. In the act of placing a bet, you are showing your risk appetite for taking part in the market. Furthermore, since $AUTH is exchangeable for USDC at 1:1, simply buying $AUTH would be no different than casting votes with USDC.
Coordinated attacks on the voting mechanism are mitigated in a number of ways, including randomisation of the votability of markets, not allowing authors to take part in voting, ensuring that only one vote can be cast per market per voter, and ensuring that $AUTH cannot be transferred to anyone other than Authensus. The voting mechanism is also blinded with a commit-reveal scheme such that the voting favourites cannot be known until reveal time.
If $AUTH can only be won by successful bets, and bets can only be successful if there are votes cast in their favour, then there cannot be any $AUTH to start the system. Thus to start off with, there is a Voting Token Vendor available, with which users can buy $AUTH with USDC at 1:1. Once there are enough users in the system with $AUTH, the Vendor will be turned off.
A new round is started any time a bet is placed in an initialised market. Betting takes place, then voting, after which the market is consolidated and re-initialised. Markets continue to exist in perpetuity, and (re-)initialised markets can be (re)started at any time. The idea behind this is that truth is an ongoing process.
In the case of a tie, everyone gets back their USDC bet or $AUTH. No winnings are paid out.