The market is the verdict
A subjective debate cannot be settled by an outside source. There is nothing to look up for "best basketball player of all time" and no body that can declare a winner for "best city to live in". The only honest answer is what people actually think.
A Morfi market captures that answer directly. Real positions — money behind opinions, not just words — surface what the crowd really believes, and the price aggregates it into a single signal everyone can see.
How a winner gets locked in
A market does not flip to a winner on a single big trade. One side has to hold a clear lead long enough for the market to agree. That sustained lead is what tells everyone the crowd has genuinely settled on an answer.
Designing it this way rewards real conviction over a last-second push. The result reflects what the crowd backed over time, not whoever moved last.
Why this works for debates but not for events
For a verifiable event, an outside result is faster and more accurate than any crowd — there is one right answer, and waiting for it makes sense.
For a subjective debate, there is no real answer waiting anywhere. The crowd's answer is the answer. That is why opinion markets need a different way to resolve — and why Morfi is built around the market deciding for itself.
What happens after a market settles
When a market locks in a winner, two things happen. The people who backed the winning side split a prize pool, in proportion to how much of it they hold. And the winning side graduates into its own tradable token you can keep holding.
So resolution is not the end of the story — it is the moment a debate turns into a payout and a token that can keep trading.