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Sofiane

1 month

Yesterday, prediction markets were stuck. Today, we launched - The first intelligent prediction market. Read more about how we built it trustlessly onchain:

Announcing TMR.NEWS

Today we're unleashing the first iteration of an intelligent prediction market, securely supercharged with AI. TMR.NEWS - now live on base

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Sofiane

@sofianeflarbi

2 years

The intro to cryptocurrencies and blockchain course at Stanford now has more students enrolled than the intro computer science course

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@sofianeflarbi

2 years

Stanford if they actually enforced the cryptography prereq for it

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@sofianeflarbi

10 months

Was really excited by @zkp2p but it has some privacy issues so I made a fork that uses merkle tree UTXOs & zk to obscure withdraws:

GitHub - Sofianel5/private-zkp2p: Fork of github.com/zkp2p/zk-p2p

Fork of github.com/zkp2p/zk-p2p. Contribute to Sofianel5/private-zkp2p development by creating an account on GitHub.

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@sofianeflarbi

2 years

@tannishmango Right it doesn’t seem healthy at all. The fact there isn’t a commensurate rise in people learning actual cryptography means it’s just an indication of a bubble

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@sofianeflarbi

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I want to send out a deep and heartfelt thank you to everyone who’s given our project a shot over these first two days. Couldn’t be more grateful to all of you for trusting this super early and experimental project with your time and money. Makes all the hard work worth it

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@sofianeflarbi

2 months

Less than half the value of the worlds first IP blockchain

Cursor

@cursor_ai

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We've raised $60M from Andreessen Horowitz, Jeff Dean, John Schulman, Noam Brown, and the founders of Stripe and Github. Cursor has become recognized as the best way to code with AI, powered by an ensemble of custom and frontier models, delightful editing, and petabyte-scale

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Sofiane

@sofianeflarbi

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Starting a reverse thiel fellowship where we pay dropouts to come back to school

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Sofiane

@sofianeflarbi

8 months

In a few years, we won't be able to distinguish between real and AI-generated images. It's a problem that adversely affects society from the highest levels of politics to your inter-personal gossip. (ZK) Cryptography, blockchains, and TEEs are uniquely positioned to solve this:

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Story protocol is the type of project my giganormie frat bro friends would think is a sick startup idea after reading Chris Dixon read write own

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@sofianeflarbi

1 year

@felixchin1 @OpenAI I hope he sees this bro

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Sofiane

@sofianeflarbi

1 month

Recap of yesterday's market results TLDR: Lots of people got the correct theme (exploding pagers in Lebanon) but some pretty funny guesses along the way! ⤵️

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@sofianeflarbi

2 years

@petergyang

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Sofiane

@sofianeflarbi

2 months

. @0xsmallbrain and I really cooked on this next one. Stay tuned

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Sofiane

@sofianeflarbi

2 years

@nemild @tannishmango Yeah to build PoopCoin ERC20 you don’t need to understand cryptography but to build genuinely distributive decentralized tech you do

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Sofiane

@sofianeflarbi

2 years

@sal_squared No but there’s resources on and

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Sofiane

@sofianeflarbi

6 months

“What’s something that’s considered trashy if you’re poor, but classy if you’re rich”

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6 months

Update, Stanford has a hidden underground rocket lab, so sick

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Sofiane

@sofianeflarbi

1 month

Incredible article from @yb_effect . Drop everything you’re doing and read it for the \alpha

From Binary to Analog Prediction Markets

The long tail of expressive prediction markets enabled by zkTLS, L2s, LLMs, and Stablecoins.

terminallyonchain.xyz

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Sofiane

@sofianeflarbi

6 months

Connected my friends (pledgecoin) who just closed a >$10,000 round to a fund that just put in $80 (my roommate). I am receiving 5% carry. My cracked Stanford, MIT friends are all founding startups (memecoins). If you’re into making money and want a scout, lmk

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@sofianeflarbi

5 months

Postcard utilizes App Attest indirectly as proof of photo and location, just some of the many use cases that would not be possible without client authenticity proofs!

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@kayrgeorge

5 months

Postcard allows anyone to capture an authentic moment in time. Every post consists of a signed photo and location. That signature, along with the App Attest certificate chain, is proof that the photo + location was taken with a genuine Apple device running an untampered app 👇

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@sofianeflarbi

29 days

Been an active @retrodotapp user for over a year now. Impressed by how sticky the product is

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@sofianeflarbi

3 months

BREAKING Donald Trump and Adin Ross endorse cryptographically verified images. Let’s get @realDonaldTrump on Postcard!

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@kayrgeorge

5 months

Postcard allows anyone to capture an authentic moment in time. Every post consists of a signed photo and location. That signature, along with the App Attest certificate chain, is proof that the photo + location was taken with a genuine Apple device running an untampered app 👇

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Sofiane

@sofianeflarbi

1 year

@mickeyxfriedman @ehalm_ Hating on newly technical folks for having suboptimal ML pipelines is lame. Also his approach does seem to somewhat reflect with clip substituted in part 2b

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@sofianeflarbi

2 months

If you see this mf in your quote tweets just know you’re going to the moon

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@sofianeflarbi

14 days

People like conspiracy theories about their devices listening to them because the alternative - that their thoughts and desires are actually predictable - is scarier

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Sofiane

@sofianeflarbi

6 months

If you liked grade inflation, you’re gonna love masters degree inflation

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@juliatheintern

6 months

Stanford students’ predisposition toward indefinite stays at our country club of a university is a sign that adulthood is no longer as appealing as it once was. I wrote about coterming, the Stanford fifth-year masters program, for @StanfordReview

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Sofiane

@sofianeflarbi

6 months

Bought the dip $JPY

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Sofiane

@sofianeflarbi

2 months

You can raise $100m+ funding rounds from the most prestigious VCs in the world but you still cannot buy a lack of cringe

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Sofiane

@sofianeflarbi

1 month

People have a hard time reasoning about truly open ended prediction markets and tend to bring them back to binary questions. In reality we can just launch a market on JRE and you can type in “Joe says DMT cures cancer” or whatever

Ankur

@ankurfr

1 month

someone please fork and hook it up with transcribed podcast feed and then make even more esoteric markets like “will joe rogan talk about DMT in the next episode” lol

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@sofianeflarbi

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Making genuinely new tech is the best feeling in the world

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@sofianeflarbi

1 month

Markets on the future of meaning on the internet. Get in early

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Sofiane

@sofianeflarbi

15 days

Project idea: zkTLS prove that you registered to vote in a particular state, get some reward

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17 days

For every person you refer who is a swing state voter, you get $47! Easy money.

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@sofianeflarbi

1 month

Interested in tech but not a nytimes reader? Want to make a custom intelligent prediction market for a different site? Drop links down below! Some initial ideas to spur your imagination: - Tomorrow's Twitter Trending - Future Apple/OpenAI product launches

Small Brain

@0xsmallbrain

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REQUEST FOR MARKETS Last week, we launched , the first natural language prediction market, where guesses are judged onchain by AI. See the launch here: Our tech can be used to build similar prediction markets for any text data on

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Sofiane

@sofianeflarbi

2 months

Prediction markets are gonna need a 10x improvement in UX if they’re going to be valuable post Election Day

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Sofiane

@sofianeflarbi

2 years

Emerging trend is the midwit tech stack: last year it was firebase, react, web3js and now everyone’s moved on to streamlit, langchain, pinecone

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Sofiane

@sofianeflarbi

1 year

When the twilio bill hit

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Sofiane

@sofianeflarbi

6 months

When Harvard sends its people, it’s not sending its best. They’re bringing cringe. They’re bringing AI wearables. Some, I assume, are good people.

Santiago Hernández

@santiaghini

6 months

@AviSchiffmann @cory yeah everyone here is dying to move to boston to build the next ai unicorn... if only the center of technology was right on stanford's backyard... oh wait 🤣

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1 year

We're so back.

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2 months

Sitting my white ass down and doing the work

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@sofianeflarbi

11 months

‘Ctrl Core’ on tiktok inspired by CV aesthetics

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@sofianeflarbi

1 year

Lol

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@sofianeflarbi

4 months

How do I explain to my parents that u can’t take time off work even though I’m unemployed

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@sofianeflarbi

3 years

@amasad Snow Crash is literally this take

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4 months

My commits green, my bank account red

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6 months

My brain is so cooked I thought this was a react component

𝔇𝔞𝔫𝔦𝔢𝔩 𝔳𝔰 𝔅𝔞𝔟𝔶𝔩𝔬𝔫

@DanielvsBabylon

6 months

The book of Revelation uses a chiastic structure. Unless someone is aware of this it is highly likely whatever they deduce from the text is incorrect. Not only Rev, but many other verses, passages, chapters, are written in the same manner. A chiasmus involves presenting a

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@DTAPCAP

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@sofianeflarbi

2 years

@tannishmango Right it doesn’t seem healthy at all. The fact there isn’t a commensurate rise in people learning actual cryptography means it’s just an indication of a bubble

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@sofianeflarbi

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Thank you Donald, very cool

Donald J. Trump

@realDonaldTrump

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@sofianeflarbi I’ll send you IMPORTANT ELECTION UPDATES for North Carolina. Make sure you are ready to VOTE FOR DONALD J. TRUMP by November 5th. Reply #stop to opt-out.

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10 months

@omurovec @fede_intern @zkp2p Rn when you on ramp, your Venmo id is hidden onchain but your counterparty can link it to your ETH address (since they got it from Venmo). This way, you can use a relayer to submit the tx and then withdraw the usdc to a different address later on, breaking the link.

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@sofianeflarbi

6 months

We’re so back

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@sofianeflarbi

2 months

Finally a real use case for ZK

saad

@x0salad

2 months

Just trolled everyone at the @paradigm frontiers conference by telling them I can prove nobody at the venue actually has a girlfriend with our mini hack: ZK-Girlfriend (sorry for any havoc we caused lol)

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@sofianeflarbi

2 years

@palladiummag @ginevlily Forced atomization

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Sofiane

@sofianeflarbi

8 months

For @Treehacks , we built a PoC iOS app & ZK library implementing this. Apple exposes access to its Secure Enclave APIs so using it to house keys and sign images is quite easy. Additionally, thanks to @SuccinctLabs SP1, writing normal rust code is all you need to build ZKPs.

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2 months

You simply need to ship

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@sofianeflarbi

9 months

@mollycantillon Derek Askaryar

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Sofiane

@sofianeflarbi

1 month

READ WRITE OWN THE FUTURE

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@sofianeflarbi

2 months

Sitting my white ass down and doing the work

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@sofianeflarbi

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@signulll @garrytan Lord give me the confidence of a vc who thinks The Current Investable Thesis can solve deep rooted societal issues

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@sofianeflarbi

6 months

Proud of the $PLEDGE team for building such an innovative product at the critical intersection of Pledge and Coin.

PledgeCoin

@pledgecoinsol

6 months

reminder PledgeCoin is still pre ipo(initial pledge offering)

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@sofianeflarbi

2 years

@i__am__aka I can’t wait until their Chinese competitor makes GPT-3/dalle-2 but better (doesn’t filter non-PC data) and no “safety guidelines” restrictions

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Sofiane

@sofianeflarbi

1 month

The Small Brain crew is full steam ahead building the frontier of digital experiences. We’re stoked to put this out there and see how far we can push prediction markets forward (we think pretty far). If you’re interested in the kind of stuff we're building please reach out!

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@sofianeflarbi

12 days

Some people need to stay away from Brooklyn for their own good

weber

@weberwongwong

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after half a year as a NYC founder I've figured out the ideal weekly schedule: sun: strategize mon-fri: execute sat: go to art & tech events in bushwick

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@sofianeflarbi

4 months

Lost some IQ points building this recently with @0xsmallbrain . Excited for you all to join me on the left curve 🐳

Small Brain

@0xsmallbrain

4 months

Introducing mystery meme: inside jokes but onchain Mystery memes are memes that are partially hidden...but can be revealed for a changing price A collab with @sofianeflarbi 👇

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@sofianeflarbi

3 years

Instagram is vulnerable to the log4j RCE hack lol

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Sofiane

@sofianeflarbi

2 months

We’re going to build markets on your data, whether you like it or not

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Sofiane

@sofianeflarbi

8 months

Greatly enjoyed working with “cracked engineer” @kayrgeorge this weekend! Check out our repo at

GitHub - Sofianel5/zk-img-editor

Contribute to Sofianel5/zk-img-editor development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

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Sofiane

@sofianeflarbi

1 year

First sale.

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Sofiane

@sofianeflarbi

11 months

Villain arc

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Sofiane

@sofianeflarbi

2 months

And we’re going to use markets to summon the future into the present

Sofiane

@sofianeflarbi

2 months

We’re going to build markets on your data, whether you like it or not

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@sofianeflarbi

5 months

Super excited to see more MPC tech getting deployed into prod systems. Worldcoin’s commitment to privacy makes them an ideal early adopter but I expect to see many more companies going all-in on MPC in the near future

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@tiagosada

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today worldcoin and taceo published a breakthrough in SMPC cryptography in short, this means the protocol no longer needs to store the legacy iris codes

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Sofiane

@sofianeflarbi

1 month

Prediction markets have failed to live up to their potential—opaque, seasonal, and lacking incentives. They generate massive value for society as clairvoyant machines, but capture none of it for their participants. We need a fresh approach!

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Things are about to get outta control

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@JohnnyNi13 If you think Stanford food is good idk what slop they're feeding you over there

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@sofianeflarbi

1 month

clairvoyance of the masses

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@jtguibas

1 month

Someone guessed the headline on yesterday almost perfectly “Hezbollah Blames Israel After Explosive Pagers Kill 9, Injure Thousands in Lebanon” 60% ROI on their prediction

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@sofianeflarbi

1 month

markets are permissionlessly resolved onchain via web proofs, a new technology that enables cryptographically verifiable statements about any data on the internet.

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Sofiane

@sofianeflarbi

2 years

The Stanford prison experiment but they put half the class of 2025 in a psych ward (EVGR)

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@sofianeflarbi

1 year

George Sivulka

@gsivulka

1 year

Noticed that GPT-4 became significantly less accurate within the last 10 days. This is probably due to model quantization, which trades accuracy for efficiency. But I can’t help but feel… uncannily sad. It’s like they’ve nuked the brain of one of my smartest friends. 😢

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Sofiane

@sofianeflarbi

2 years

I converted my Snapchat ai to Islam

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@sofianeflarbi

6 months

@derekaskaryar Is that a wild @siddrrsh spotting 👀👀

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@sofianeflarbi

3 years

Made an app where people can generate superlatives for their friend groups (app is called Superlatives)

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@sofianeflarbi

1 month

The 8 best responses ended up with 0.69-0.71 AI similarity scores to the true headline and all ended up making approximately $15 on their $25 investments (60% ROI in 12 hours, not bad!) shout out: @ishaan0x @harpethr farcaster: @ nicholas, @ marchmbh, @ jdcook

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Sofiane

@sofianeflarbi

23 days

Try again

Small Brain

@0xsmallbrain

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Genius

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I’m an artist and my medium is shareholder value

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@sofianeflarbi

2 years

Welcome to the future of the internet

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@sofianeflarbi

1 month

Unfortunately some meme responses from @cryptoseneca , @raulonastool , @nbaronia1 , @0xsmallbrain , @dcposch , @0xljki , (farcaster) @ oexcess ended up being pretty unprofitable. Who knew NYTimes lacks a sense of humor

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OH: CS is only saturated on the goober level

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@sofianeflarbi

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Recap of the second ever market outcomes: TLDR: Contrarians winning big, the correct topic was the second wave of terrorist attacks in Lebanon while most people (including myself) believed it would be the rate cuts. ⤵️

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Sofiane

@sofianeflarbi

2 years

Tim May, 1992

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Sofiane

@sofianeflarbi

1 month

Contrarians just won big. Go see the results:

Sofiane

@sofianeflarbi

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Today's market is live & hot with predictions about the rate cuts. Get in now, especially if you have alpha going against the market! We just lowered the minimum prediction size so should be more accessible to most participants now! See the future at

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Today’s markets limit engagement to a few high-liquidity questions, but what about the long tail? To unlock that, we need intelligent markets that capture info with higher dimensionality and semantic intelligence.

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Sofiane

@sofianeflarbi

1 year

“During a gold rush sell shovels”

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@sofianeflarbi

11 months

Quite sad, I was actually looking forward to laundry buddy ngl

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@sofianeflarbi

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The promise of prediction markets is extremely motivating—imagine a world where you can put money on ANY prediction and get rewarded if it comes true. Collective wisdom in this higher-dimensional market generates prophetic signals that participants can finally profit from.

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Sofiane

@sofianeflarbi

27 days

👀👀

vitalik.eth

@VitalikButerin

27 days

@llamaonthebrink As I said in my post earlier this year... there's been a crypto/AI intersection use case in plain sight for a decade, it's bots market-making DEXes. A lot of fruitful avenues in extending this to prediction markets, and then to adjudication games in DAOs.

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@sofianeflarbi

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Think markets on Elon’s next tweet, the next iPhone launch announcement, or changes to regulation. All you need is a url, regex, and expiry date.

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Sofiane

@sofianeflarbi

1 month

Today we're unleashing the first iteration of an intelligent prediction market, securely supercharged with AI: . In typical Small Brain fashion, we’ve condensed this grand vision into a live, fun, and simple product we’ve built over the past month.

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