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Mantic Monday: Let Me Google That for You

by aleyan on 12/21/21, 9:16 PM with 8 comments

• by wilde on 12/21/21, 9:47 PM

  Prediction markets are super fascinating. Their use is hampered in the US both by the insider concerns mentioned in the article and a web of state laws that sometimes classify them as gambling.

  For the Solana ignition hackathon I played around with building a search engine based around a per-query prediction market. It’s fun to try to structure different problems in this way since it’s totally different to how we typically solve things in CS.