DeFiWarhol

The chart shows that there are 108 prediction market platforms across 12 categories, up from a handful in 2020.
Almost all of the growth came after @Polymarket hit $3.3B in volume during the Nov 2024 election.
47 of those 108 are binary markets in Polymarket's format, which is now the dominant design in the entire category.
These binary markets are easier to create because Polymarket's contracts are public.
What's hard to copy, though, is the moat. That comes from liquidity, market quality, market variety, and distribution.
It's the most used PM for a reason.

I will never understand why people choose RedotPay over KAST or EtherFi.
It’s an objectively worse deal in every way.
What am I missing here?

How to build your crypto card 101:
1. Pick the exact card type first: prepaid, debit, credit, etc. Each one has different requirements, rules, fees, and compliance obligations.
2. Start with one use case: stablecoin payroll, freelancer payouts, travel spending, remittances, business cards, etc.
3. Choose one launch region. A crypto card for the EU, US, LATAM, APAC, or MENA is not one product.
4. Find the issuer/BIN sponsor before you build too much. Without a bank or licensed sponsor behind the program, you don’t have a card business.
5. Decide if you’re using a full program manager or going p

Not many platforms open-source their algo.
But X does, and since we’re all here anyway, I thought about posting on how the For You feed works ↓
1. X mixes posts from people you follow with posts from accounts you don’t follow.
2. Then it ranks them based on what it thinks you’ll care about.
3. The flow is pretty simple:
your activity → possible posts → filters → engagement prediction → final feed
4. There are 2 main sources:
→ Thunder: posts from people you follow
→ Phoenix: posts from the wider X network
5. Phoenix is the part that helps posts reach new people.
If X thinks your post matches s