The Future of Prediction Markets (According to Vitalik)

Title: 🧵 Vitalik's Master Plan for Prediction Markets (And Why It Matters) 🧵

1/8 🧵 Vitalik Buterin just dropped a philosophical bomb on the prediction market sector. Let's break it down.

2/8 🧵 The Problem: Platforms like Polymarket are thriving on short-term bets – crypto prices, sports, elections. Great for volume. Terrible for long-term survival.

3/8 🧵 The Dynamic: "Smart traders" vs. "money losers." Platforms profit from dumb opinions. They're incentivized to attract more "naive traders."

4/8 🧵 The Risk: When the bear market comes, the gamblers leave. Platforms built on dopamine will collapse.

5/8 🧵 The Fix: Shift to HEDGING. Use prediction markets as insurance. A farmer hedges against a bad policy. A shipper hedges against oil prices. Real utility.

6/8 🧵 The WILD Vision: AI analyzes YOUR spending. Creates a personalized basket of prediction market shares. You hold that instead of $USDC. No fiat needed.

7/8 🧵 "We do not need fiat currency at all! People can hold stocks, ETH, or whatever else to grow wealth, and personalized prediction market shares when they want stability."

8/8 🧵 Feasible today? No. A north star for where we should go? Absolutely. Prediction markets could become the backbone of a new financial system.

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