YZi Labs incubated project Cournot becomes the official AI-native oracle of 42

BlockBeats reported that on June 15, Cournot Protocol, the real-world outcome AI-native oracle backed by YZi Labs, has officially integrated with Event Market 42 as its official AI-native oracle. Event Market 42 is jointly funded by institutions such as Dragonfly and an unnamed exchange. Cournot will provide 42 with continuous monitoring, evidence-backed evaluation, and a transparent analysis workflow driven by Cournot’s "Proof of Reasoning" framework.

As event trading platforms expand into sectors such as sports, politics, creator economy, and crypto-native events, building robust resolution mechanisms has become a core challenge in infrastructure development. Unlike traditional price feed oracles, Cournot continuously tracks external developments, aggregates multi-source cross-evidence, interprets settlement criteria for each market, and generates auditable reasoning chains alongside its resolution outputs.

Cournot’s recent integration with prediction market Myriad Markets highlights the industry’s macro trend toward migrating to "AI-assisted settlement" infrastructure. Cournot’s core capabilities will gradually extend from empowering prediction markets to Agentic Commerce, complex RWA, card and parametric insurance, and other fields. More platforms are recognizing that complex real-world outcomes often cannot be resolved by a single API or just one price feed, which is precisely why they are seeking new types of oracles.