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The Polymarket event “Will there be another U.S. government shutdown by January 31?" looks like a clean, structured market: pick an official source, read the update, settle. In practice, this is where prediction markets repeatedly hit the same wall. Resolution is rarely a pure data problem. It’s a semantic problem. The question isn’t only what the source says—it’s what the words mean under the contract. Definitions like “shutdown,” “partial shutdown,” and even “announcement” carry interpretive surface area. Timing boundaries introduce additional edge cases: does the real-world event time matter, or the time the designated webpage gets updated? These are not hypothetical nitpicks; they’re the exact failure modes that have historically produced disputes and trader resentment in high-stakes markets. See how Cournot Protocol can solve this: https://medium.com/@CournotProtocol/polymarket-case-study-resolving-the-u-s-government-shutdown-market-with-cournot-protocol-d4220cab0150

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