{"document_id":"BLC-STUDY-0048","slug":"augur","title":"Augur: a Decentralized Oracle and Prediction Market Platform","authors":"Jack Peterson, Joseph Krug, Micah Zoltu, Austin K. Williams, Stephanie Alexander","year":2018,"date_label":"2018","publisher":"Jack Peterson, Joseph Krug, Micah Zoltu, Austin K. Williams, Stephanie Alexander","paper_type":"Design paper","category":"Data and agents","topics":["Data and agents"],"source_url":"https://augur.net/whitepaper.pdf","source_label":"Augur white paper","legacy_pdf_path":null,"sha256":null,"sha256_note":"No hash is published. This build does not store those PDF bytes, so a checksum would be invented. Where a legacy path exists, it points at the Internet Archive copy of the old library.","version":"Source cited by the 2018 study. The study is the reading. This page does not add a second essay.","doi":null,"rights_status":"Official external source only","source_status":"Official source","use_status":"Metadata and commentary only. The reading is the study page.","licence":null,"licence_label":"No licence recorded. Rights status under review.","full_text":null,"full_text_reason":"Full text is not published on this page. Public availability is not a licence to republish a document. Blockchain Lab has not recorded a licence that permits an HTML transcription, a training set, or a retrieval corpus of the paper. Text on this page is Blockchain Lab's own wording, or a pointer to a study that is also Blockchain Lab's wording.","editorial_line":"The Augur paper: prediction markets whose outcomes are reported by token holders, with a dispute ladder that can escalate a contested result. It is both a market design and an oracle design. The historic library already holds Gnosis. Augur is the other canonical public prediction-market paper and was not in that set.","canonical_url":"https://blockchainlab.com/whitepaper/augur","record_url":"https://blockchainlab.com/research/corpus/papers/augur","study_url":"https://blockchainlab.com/whitepaper/augur","last_reviewed":"2026-10-01","last_checked":"2026-10-01","relationships":[{"rel":"Canonical reading","label":"Augur study","href":"/whitepaper/augur"},{"rel":"Related paper","label":"Chainlink","href":"/whitepaper/chainlink"},{"rel":"Related paper","label":"0x","href":"/whitepaper/zero-x"}]}