untested and i'm not familiar with Kovenant either, but this should probably work

fun <T> Deferred<Unit,T>.resolve() = resolve(Unit)

Sorry, it turns out this wasn't actually working, but throwing

java.lang.IllegalStateException: Value[kotlin.Unit] is set, can't override with new value[kotlin.Unit]

but calling

resolve(Unit)

on the deferred object works?

ah, that also doesn't work, my mistake

as i said, i'm not familiar with kovenant

yeah, I tried asking