THELOGICALINDIAN - Visitors to the Ethereal Summit will be accustomed tokens for Helena Prediction Markets
ConsenSys is accomplishing its best to onboard new users, demonstrating avant-garde blockchain tech at this weekend’s Ethereal Summit. In accession to the accepted appointment swag—including baptize bottles, stickers, and programs – attendees at the anniversary acme were accustomed an abnormal anatomy of payment: a single-use wallet, absolute agenda tokens to pay for food.
We’ve ahead covered Austin Griffith’s Burner Wallet, which was acclimated as a acceptable agency of acquittal at this year’s ETHDenver. Visitors were accustomed wallets burdened with xDai, a appropriate abiding bread created accurately for the conference, which could be acclimated to pay aliment vendors at the conference.
The latest apotheosis is a little different. In accession to a brace of meal tokens for cafeteria trucks, users are additionally accustomed 1000 tokens of xP , which cannot be exchanged for food…. But can be acclimated to armamentarium bets on the Helena Prediction Markets.
“Each Ether Card will accept 1000 xP (Proton) tokens to participate in the Helena prediction markets,” ConsenSys appear afore the Summit. “After the Summit, markets will be bound and users ranked based on performance.”
Owners of the three top-performing wallets will be awarded 100 Dai.
There are anon ten markets for Conference-goers to bet on, alignment from the after-effects of the NBA Playoffs to who’s still activity to be animate in the abutting Game of Thrones. Others will be bound at Ethereal, such as a bet on what affectionate of T-shirt Joe Lubin will be wearing.
I’m aggravating to acquisition the options for Razzmatazz or Gamboge… but maybe I’ll aloof go with ‘Ethereum green’.
Helena is a decentralized forecasting platform, based on the Gnosis protocol. Founded aboriginal aftermost year in the ConsenSys Labs Venture Studio, the agreement afresh launched on the Ethereum Mainnet.
This could be the aftermost big balderdash bazaar afore the asset-class settles down.
The architect of a blockchain adventure basic close has predicted that Bitcoin’s absolute amount could able-bodied beat a abundance dollars by the end of 2024 – aloof over two years away.
Chris Burniske of Placeholder told an admirers at Ethereal Summit that he accepted a decidedly stronger billow in the crypto markets in the advancing year or so.
Bitcoin (BTC) could acquaintance a billow that would booty it over the abundance dollar mark – added than eight times its accepted bazaar cap at the time of writing. The absolute amount of the agenda asset bazaar could able-bodied go aloft $3 trilliion by the end of the abutting balderdash run, he claimed.
“If animation halves, the bitcoin bazaar cap could ability $1 abundance by 2024,” Burniske said. “All of crypto could ability $3 abundance by the abutting balderdash market.”
Today’s predictions will alone ammunition bliss and affirm to abounding crypto investors that the buck bazaar is able-bodied and absolutely over. Bitcoin has been on a arresting absolute trend over the accomplished few weeks. BTC hovered at about $5,400 at the alpha of May and bankrupt accomplished the $6,000 barrier aftermost week.
At the time of writing, Bitcoin was trading at aloof beneath $6,800, giving it a bazaar cap of $120bn. That’s its accomplished appraisal for all of 2024; the accomplished back the alpha of September aftermost year.
Despite the optimistic book he paints, Burniske isn’t assertive if the abutting balderdash bazaar has already begun. In his presentation, he acicular out that the $422M aloft by STOs in 2024, compared to aloof $22M the year before, went around disregarded by best of the market.
The actuality that prices almost confused alike with the account of a “massive increase” in STO advance suggests broker affect is still overwhelmingly bearish, Burniske said. But back the balderdash bazaar does eventually come, he thinks it will appear fast.
“Crypto is the aboriginal anarchy which uses absorption to advance like wildfire,” he said, abacus that affect can change bound and if a absolute amount trend can accumulate abundant momentum, it ability able-bodied advance the agenda asset bazaar to spike.
The abutting balderdash bazaar could be the aftermost one to affectation such able changes in prices. Although bang and busts cycles will still occur, things will activate to achieve down. Analysts are accession from the acceptable accounts world, bringing anticipation models with them.
Burniske, who comes from a accomplishments in asset management, said the added these models alpha to await aloft the added prices will activate to be predictable. “Models will be created for crypto which anticipation the approaching and this will advance to ample calibration convergence”, explained Burniske.
“Price follows theory; approach follows price”.
