# The Institutional Evolution of Digital Assets and Prediction Markets

**Podcast:** The Milk Road Show
**Published:** 2026-04-07

## Transcript

there is a runaway institutional bull market in crypto.
It's being expressed in stable coins, it's being expressed in tokenization, it's being expressed in vaults.
But the nature of what crypto is, is really evolving.
What's up, everybody?
It's LG Doucette here and welcome to the Milk Road Show, the daily crypto show that really wants to believe we can pump another 40% before end of year.
And I'm not stopping the episode until I know for sure that we will.
Today is April 7th, 2026.
We are recording on April 6th.
Two of our favorite guests are back from their expedition to the East Coast to the Digital Assets Summit in New York, and I'm keen to grill them on what they heard behind the scenes.
Plus, it's high time we make a clear case for prediction markets, one of my favorite topics, and we're actually going to get one today.
Matt Hogan and Ryan Rasmussen from Bitwise are back on the Milk Road.
Matt, Ryan, welcome back from your travels, guys.
Very keen to hear what was going on.
You guys feeling all right?
You guys refreshed after returning?
Feeling good.
Okay, feeling good.
Everybody's feeling great about the show.
The state of things.
Okay, Ryan, I have to target you with my first question, okay?
Well, I always do research on our guests.
I always want to know what our guests have been saying.
Even you guys, two weeks without talking, I always want to know what kind of other interviews you gave, who else you've been talking to, what other hot takes you've been sharing, not on Milk Road.
And Ryan, I pulled up an article from a publication called O Daily that says that Ryan is predicting a 95,000 Bitcoin range by the end of the year.
Is that true?
That was an interesting conversation, because we were talking a lot about long-term tailwinds that drive the market higher.
And one anecdote that I gave was that heading into 2026, we saw a few specific catalysts that could turn the market back towards that 95K level, which is right around where we would need to be to break this four-year cycle, which is what some people are worried about.
I think that it's very possible and actually likely that we end the year above 95,000.
There's a number of very specific catalysts that could turn the market back towards that 95K level, which is right around where we would need to be to break this four-year cycle, which is right around where we would need to break this four-year cycle, that will drive us there.
But there's also a few conditions that need to be met.
I'd be happy to explore those catalysts with you.
But I did say it.
I do believe it.
And I think it's going to happen.
What are the catalysts?
What are these catalysts?
Tell me, please.
There's three specific environmental factors that need to turn in Bitcoin's favor to push prices higher.
The first is the macro and geopolitical situation, which I believe strongly is going to settle in the relatively near future.
And so a lot of people are worried about this drawn-out conflict.
It could last many years.
It could last many years.
It could last many years.
It could last many, many months.
That's going to have ripple effects on inflation, interest rates, and the economy, both in the U.S.
and globally.
I don't believe that's going to be the case.
I believe this is a relatively short-term shock that will fade.
And six months from now, we'll be talking about it in the same way we talked about the tariff tantrum and other relatively short Trump-induced shocks to markets.
So I think the macro geopolitical environment needs to shift away from the state of uncertainty and instability and constant chaos into a more normalized environment.
I think that's going to happen.
I think that's going to happen.
I think that's going to happen.
In the next few months, we'll have Kevin Warsh come in.
I think we see interest rates hold steady or cut.
I don't think we're seeing interest rate hikes.
And I think that's conducive to a positive price returns for Bitcoin.
The next is regulatory clarity.
The regulatory environment has been super uncertain for Bitcoin with the Clarity Act hanging in the balance.
I have faith that the Clarity Act will pass in 2026 before the window closes, as many people are saying.
And I think that will be net positive for Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies.
And then the biggest catalyst, and this isn't just a 2026 catalyst, this is a long-term catalyst, is institutional demand for Bitcoin is incredibly strong.
We just saw over a billion in inflows into Bitcoin ETFs last month amid all this geopolitical macro uncertainty, regulatory uncertainty that I spoke about.
So you can imagine what would happen if those things settle and become tailwinds to crypto, what would happen from an institutional demand perspective.
I think those things are what pushes Bitcoin back above $95,000 by the end of the year.
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Ryan, is there a world where these things happen and they are positive and the conflict draws on and does one cancel out the other?
So yes, it's certainly possible some of these things cancel each other out.
I think if we see interest rate hikes- And the conflict draw on for the next six plus months, I do think that that becomes very difficult for any financial asset to perform relatively strongly.
Although it's interesting, we're starting to see markets react a little bit less to these threats or statements being made.
Trump's given an ultimatum.
Iran's come back and said, we're not going to listen to it.
Trump changes the deadline.
The markets are reacting slightly less every time this happens.
And so I do think that it's just one of those things that the markets become, you know, a little bit more sensitive to.
And then you have other forces take the front seat.
Ultimately, institutional demand is going to be the strongest driver, given Bitcoin's an asset whose price is based on supply and demand.
And from what we're seeing and talking with investors, they're viewing the current prices as good entry points and are making many long-term allocations across their portfolios and model portfolios.
So I think those, that long-term demand will not be canceled out regardless, whether it comes in the next month, six months or not.
I think the long-term demand will not be canceled out regardless, whether it comes in the next month, six months or not.
So I think the long-term demand will not be canceled out regardless, whether it comes in the next month, nine months is up for debate.
Okay, that's a good take.
Matt, is this, are you feeling this 95k energy by end of year?
I really do think it's conditional on the things that Ryan mentioned.
I would add in some sort of resolution or clarity on the roadmap to solve the mounting concerns around quantum for Bitcoin as yet another catalyst.
I think that maybe the only place that I would disagree with Ryan is I think if we get all of those cards flying around the world, we're going to be able to do a lot better.
I think if we get all of those cards flying around the world, we're going to be able to do a lot better.
I think get all of those cards flipping over in a positive way, I think we end up much higher.
I think if we get a mix of those, we end up sort of drifting sideways.
And if they all come up in the wrong way, I think we could end much lower.
So I think it's, I have a view with more dispersion, but like if we get clarity and Iran resolves and we solve the quantum issue, I think it could be a great end of the year.
But that's like a, you know, that we need a series of events to solve.
Yeah, that would be, that would be the perfect, the perfect storm really for all those things to happen at the same time.
Is that, is quantum something that can be solved that easily?
Cause I feel like we've had a few guests on lately and it's like a little bit more complex.
We had the guys from Arkon last week kind of talk about quantum and it was like, you got to get all these Bitcoin people back on board to solve everything.
Whereas Ethereum is a little, like the foundation has been like a little bit more on the ball lately and it's a significantly different system.
Is this Bitcoin, is this something that can be solved that quickly?
Or protected against, let's say?
So my view is that exactly what you would want to see happen in order to solve the quantum threat is in fact happening, which is highly credible.
People are raising concerns, increasing numbers of those people, and therefore the community is focused on it more seriously and willing to weigh the pros and cons.
We're in a much better space today from this perspective of preparedness than we were 12 months ago.
I don't think we need to have every problem solved.
I don't think that's what we need.
We need to unleash sort of the OG demand to invest into Bitcoin as we exit the winter and enter the spring years of the four-year cycle.
I think we just need a credible roadmap to solve it.
It's not like Ethereum has it exactly buttoned up.
They just have a credible roadmap.
I think if we have a credible roadmap and commitment, that will be enough to bring along the sort of OG investors back into the market.
Look, I think the institutional investors are coming regardless because they've realized that they're off market on Bitcoin, that being at zero is no longer a tolerable position.
So why we're seeing the flow as Ryan mentioned is that they are coming regardless.
My point was in order to get the upside above Ryan's $95K, we need to get that OG crypto retail crypto along for the ride.
And I think they will want a defined roadmap.
Right.
Yeah.
Okay.
Yeah.
So they have to feel like you're basically telling me that the OGs have to feel like the situation is being addressed slightly under control or going to be under control soon after the warnings from Google and everybody last week.
So for that demand to come back, is that is it possible, Matt, that this is what drove demand away originally with the OGs who kind of started to really offload their holdings through the year last year?
I generally think monocausal explanations are wrong.
Right.
But was it a contributing factor?
Yes.
Was it as important as just the four-year cycle and the desire to avoid that historical 75% pullback?
No.
But was it a contributing factor?
Yes.
Was it a reason people pointed to to justify sort of taking the emotional step of removing some of their exposure ahead of the four-year cycle?
So I think it's a little bit complex, but it definitely was a piece.
And I think the level of concern has gone up substantially.
And again, I think that's good.
I think actually it's the system sort of healing itself.
It's kind of nice and interesting to see and observe.
But I do think it'll be a catalyst at this point if it gets well organized.
Ryan, was this a discussion at DOS?
Was anybody concerned about this?
And if not, what were people talking about?
Quantum definitely came up at the Digital Asset Summit, certainly.
I think not as many people are focused on it as you might think.
And the Google piece around the accelerated timeline for quantum risk actually came out after the conference, and it became a little bit more.
Right.
Top of mind last week rather than the week prior.
But I will say a lot of the attention at the Digital Asset Summit was around institutional adoption, was around regulatory clarity, it was around things like tokenization, stablecoins, and vaults, and was less around the quantum risk.
Although it is top of mind for investors, we felt a number of events over the past month, and I've been asked about it several times from investors.
And they are curious about Bitcoin.
They're curious about Ethereum.
Right.
They see that there's been communication around, you know, efforts to solve the quantum risk.
I think that gives some comfort, but we really need to start seeing steps taken in the right direction to really, you know, ease long-term concerns.
I ask you guys this all the time.
I always want to know what the institutions are saying.
But Ryan, you said they're curious, like, is this like, is it, is there like an information gap for them of like, they don't, they still don't really understand these assets or they are trying to get the buy-in internally to just offload or they're waiting for better liquidity conditions?
What do you mean by curious?
So it's a spectrum when you talk to the different institutional investors and professional investors on how closely they follow the crypto industry and how closely they follow specific developments within it.
Many professional investors spend a very small amount.
They spend a lot of their time thinking about Bitcoin or about crypto more broadly.
And what they're typically seeing when it comes to their information on the space are the headlines in the Wall Street Journal or on CNBC or somebody coming on and talking about potential risks to the market on CNBC or something similar.
And so that's where they hear things like quantum or this big paper by Google gets released and it catches their attention.
And then they want to know when they speak to us, hey, how big of a risk is this really?
How are you thinking about it as a specialist asset manager who follows?
The space 24, 7, 3, 6, 5, who speaks with Bitcoin core developers and donates to those open source developers to help address these risks.
And so that's the knowledge gap is that they turn to us to understand what's real and what's not and to sift through the noise.
Yeah, that makes sense.
I guess so.
So they rely on you guys to kind of tell them like what's what and to kind of ask these questions.
Was there anything else, Matt, that was really top of mind for people at the summit in terms of risks?
Or opportunities or anything, anything new that you guys learned?
Maybe that you had underestimated how heavy that was for the institutional crowd?
Well, I would just say one of my big takeaways was that the sartorial distribution of how people were dressed at the summit has changed over the last five years.
I mean, it was five years ago.
There's like two people in suits.
And this year it was 80, 85 percent, I would say, people in suits.
Really remarkable.
I think that speaks.
To the fact that there is a runaway institutional bull market in crypto, it's being expressed in stable coins, it's being expressed in tokenization, it's being expressed in vaults.
But the nature of what crypto is, is really evolving.
And you could just you could gather maybe the most information from DOS just by looking at a photo of the audience and comparing it to DOS 2020.
And you will just see a really dramatic shift.
So if you want to know what's happening in crypto, that is that is a big thing.
That's happening.
So that was a big takeaway.
Other other I will say the other hot topic was vaults.
There's an enormous interest in vaults.
I love vaults.
Very excited about vaults.
I've described them as the next ETF.
But even I think the level of interest in vaults from the institutional community exceeds the level of actual assets and growth in that market right now.
So but there is just rabid interest in the vault space.
What is the what is that?
What is the difference?
Between an ETF and a vault?
I feel like I've asked you this before.
Maybe just clarify for people listening.
Sure.
Yeah.
If you think about asset management historically, the problem it's solving is that there are individuals who want to invest in the market, but they can't get the diversification and management that they need.
It's not their full time job, right?
So what they've done is that they give money to asset managers and the asset managers deploy this.
300 years ago, when asset management started, it was actually in the 1600s.
It was very clunky, very expensive.
They couldn't own much.
There were premiums and discounts.
They couldn't get their money out.
It improved over time, right?
In the 20s, we got open end funds in this.
In the 90s, we got ETFs, which made that more efficient.
The difference between a vault and an ETF is that it further increases that efficiency.
And it does that by removing some of the things that asset managers do.
Like in traditional world, asset managers handle custody and audit and tax reporting, et cetera.
And they pair that.
With the intellectual IP of where to invest.
One way to think about a vault is it strips away all that sort of real world gunk and just leaves the IP so that an investor puts money into a smart contract and it's allocated based on what the asset manager is doing.
And therefore, it's like a more simplified, more efficient, more perfect version of asset management.
And the other sort of gunky parts are left to each individual to manage.
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the space for the last six to nine months sentiment has been near all-time lows near lows that we saw in 2022 amid the collapse of ftx and prices have drawn down significantly liquidity has dried up across a bunch of different metrics across the space and that's led to a bear market both in terms of price and in terms of sentiment and then when you speak either to institutional investors like we've been doing they don't see this bear market outside of the price they see a bunch of positive tailwinds that will drive the market high over the long-term vaults tokenization stable points vector clear etc then you speak to people outside of the financial space and you you speak to those that are building ai products and they see a bunch of benefits of the underlying technology you need to solve for proof of identity well crypto does that blockchain technology does that extremely well you need to solve for privacy blockchain technology crypto technology does that extremely well you need a means of transaction for ai agents to use without them accessing a bank account well stable coins blockchain technology and crypto does that extremely well so they see all of these potential synergies that are going to uh going to come to market between ai and crypto and they're extremely bullish institutional investors see all the synergies between crypto and traditional finance stable coin circulation vaults they're increasingly bullish crypto native investors see prices down see liquidity down keep getting liquidated see interest rates going up they're increasingly bullish and they think it's all over and that's this huge disconnect that's happening i think that's what hasib was referencing it's totally true totally true crypto is like carrying an umbrella that it's raining under the umbrella and everywhere else sunshine it's uh why is that why is that why is crypto so much more emotional is it just because it's so much more volatile that you you attract that it's it does i think if anything i've learned doing this show for six plus months now is that there's such swing uh in crypto and even we make episodes that it's like well we know we're gonna do well on this one because we're talking we're really digging on to you know digging into emotions and i'm curious because then a lot of people like you guys were it's like okay listen you know um you guys are you guys are joining tradfi and crypto really well together a bit wise uh we have a lot of other tradfi people come on talk about how excited they are for crypto like there is no storm going on for them there is no like this is an upward trajectory long term like just freaking relax man but but crypto like will it ever be able to get away from this emotional roller coaster like is that part of it you know what i mean like will it always be kind of like that yeah it's a great question uh do you have a take right i have a thought maybe you should go first yeah i i think it's in part a difference in time horizon and many crypto investors got into crypto because they saw a chance to uh make a large amount of wealth in a relatively short period because they're going to front run the institutions boomed and bust and boomed and bust people have kind of been disillusioned from that and are a little bit scorned by the fact that we've seen you know all-time highs retracement all-time highs retracement to the level that we have in crypto and i think many you know long-term investors which institutional investors and portfolio managers that we speak to across wealth management firms and and platforms are long-term oriented in nature they have clients that are looking to retire in five years or 45 years and they have to invest accordingly and those investors see the mega trends that we're talking about and they get excited but i think that crypto investors are too narrowly focused and financially impacted by a high concentration in crypto that when the market goes up and down the way that it does it does lead to highly emotional behavior and in behaving emotionally when it comes to investing is extremely dangerous and professional investors one thing that they do do well is systematically approach investing and look at what they're doing what they're doing what they're doing what they're doing they look to identify long-term mega trends and they want exposure to that because it may not pay off today it may not pay off next year but in 10 years they see an investment in this technology paying off i think that's i think that's right the other thing i would add to it is like look let's be honest it's it's it's a nuclear winner in some areas of the crypto market right it's it's a nuclear winner in meme coins it's a nuclear winner in like alt layer ones it's a nuclear winner in vaporware apps a lot of people own those assets and when they look out across the the future landscape of those assets it does in fact look bleak because it is in fact bleak that is different than if you're starting at zero and making your first allocation and you're like wow stable coins and tokenization are scheduled to boom and these assets are down 50 that's like a completely different mindset than owning this thing that you did your research on thought was exciting and it's down 90 it's going to fall another 99 and you just know that so i do think it's a different perspective those are good takes guys yeah thanks it definitely it definitely makes a lot of sense why people are like this but i think it's always good to have you guys kind of walk us through that but matt i think you know i wanted to save the rest of the episode talk about something that is highly emotionally driven speaking of crypto things that are emotional driven which is prediction markets which we always talk about um we always you know ever since i've been hosting these shows with you guys we always come we always talk about things that are emotional driven um but this time um as we know it's something that uh you guys have gotten a lot more interested in lately and matt you just put out a great memo today prediction markets addressing the five biggest questions and i thought that this was very very interesting what you wrote because i think even for me someone who is a career dj and i love prediction markets i love like weird things to bet on you know um there are a lot of questions for me with prediction markets and they're in in the news a lot for good and also bad reasons clearly as something that's quite nascent there are a lot of those questions um kind of need to be answered as we go um so i saw a lot of things in this in this in this in this piece matt so i can ask you a few questions about it um i think in here you kind of hinted at that that prediction markets are are one of the most important tools in finance why why why what made you kind of state that oh man because they provide new and critical information for the world and their useful portfolio tools so let's take those two pieces first on the new and important information that the higher quality information we have about the economy the better it can run and function uh we're all frustrated that the federal reserve is looking at like outward backward looking data that's slow to update we're frustrated that jobs numbers get revised plus or minus a couple hundred thousand and those directly impact us because that data drives economic decision making at the fed it drives investment it drives economic decision-making at the fed it drives investment it drives economic decision-making at the fed it drives investment investing decision making among investors it has a huge influence so if we can improve the quality of data that we know about the world the world will be a better place and permission markets do that not just theoretically but empirically in the piece i point to this paper written by the federal reserve that showed that calci even at this early stage when it's one 100th of what it could be someday is already a better predictor of fed rate cuts gdp cpi and other statistics than the best economists in the world from bloomberg than the fed's own survey of market expectations calci is better and it's doing it in real time not once every month so from a society perspective the ability to have better information about the economy is just strictly good and will make the economy and the world run better and then from a portfolio perspective look the reality is that the world is influenced by political and economic and other events and we have no way to explain why the world is influenced by political and economic and other events and we have no way to express that cleanly if you think there'll be a democratic sweep in a couple of years that installs uh elizabeth warren as the head of the sec that has an influence on what you'll do in crypto but you have no way to protect yourself from that probability other than just exiting the market you have no way to hedge that out and that's a crypto specific example but imagine you're investing in defense stocks or imagine you're investing in ai stocks or investing in it huge influence and we don't have the ability to express that in portfolios so whether from a societal perspective or a portfolio perspective i think they're massive are they perfect no are there things that need to be cracked down on absolutely are there risks yes are there markets we shouldn't have definitely but net net i think they're a massively positive thing what i like that your your only example is like an apocalyptic crypto scenario well it's just maybe maybe some of us have lived that example that i share you could imagine someone deciding or not deciding where to allocate on defense stocks as i mentioned or deciding or not deciding where to allocate on health care depending on how you think that will go i can think of a wide variety of examples and that's just election outcomes you could think about how you would adjust your portfolio if interest rates go above five per cent now how can you express that today you need to use you know complicated options or futures that not everyone is used to using or you could package that in a prediction market and that would be a valuable tool that you could use so yeah the crypto one comes to mind because we've lived it but the other examples are just as robust obviously uh one of the biggest questions about prediction markets matt is people are just like listen that's just another form of gambling especially being tied to crypto listening it's just like meme coins just like nfts it's just another like d-gen kind of thing you're making the case opposite you're giving us good reasons but i wanted to kind of address that head-on because you do as well in in this article yeah look some of it is gambling uh if you have a prediction market on a football game that is the same as going to a sports book and betting on a football game we can call that gambling and that is fine but if you have a prediction market on interest rate outcomes at the federal reserve that is the same as the cme's fed fund futures market which trades 5 to 15 trillion dollars in notional value every day from the largest financial institutions in the world that we would call investing and it's fine that prediction markets can cover both and it's fine if you don't do the sports stuff or the cultural stuff or you don't think there should be prediction markets on geopolitical events we're like sophisticated people we can separate those worlds but there's a huge amount that they cover that's clearly in the area of finance investing and hedging and i think they're really powerful tools stable coins are reshaping the financial order but most companies don't have the opportunity to participate in the rewards they generate plus launching a stable coin means wrestling with complex regulations building bespoke infrastructure and burning endless developer hours enter bridge and its new product open issuance bridge lets 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right place for me to do something a little bit more sophisticated like what you're describing matt so will we ever eventually have a segmentation of these markets will there be a finance only market that comes and and because of its specialization beats out polymarket and calci for that market like how do you see that down the line i think that's definitely possible look when we're considering where we might file to launch etfs on prediction markets we're not looking at taylor swift concert receipts we're looking at financial market indicators right because that is the area in the market that we serve so i think that level of differentiation is clear but i would make an analogy to my etf days look most of the money in etfs are in very simple etfs holding the s p 500 or the nasdaq 100 or bonds but you could get a 3x levered single stock etf right and that is a crazy thing to own and what we found in the coverage of etfs is that the search tools and the coverage clearly differentiate between normal and exotic etfs i think you'll see that kind of thing so yes as more markets get embraced by financial users i think those will bring those to the fore i wouldn't be surprised to see a fracturing out of sports betting in particular because there are additional legal uh suits around that space we're in the very early days of this so yeah i do think it could differentiate ryan i we haven't heard from you in a while is there any particular reading what matt wrote um is there anything very particular that comes to mind for you in terms of like this the legitimacy that he's kind of speaking to the extra optionality for um traders investors in here any particular sector that you feel has legs outside of kind of what he's describing i mean i do think that the ability for prediction markets to allow investors to express binary outcomes of what they believe is really important it's it's really difficult for most investors to think that uh xyz is going to win the election and okay how do i express that in my portfolio and then how do i break down that expression across different asset classes from commodities to technology to gold to bonds and then what vehicle do i use do i trade futures do i trade options it just becomes increasingly complex and so one thing that i love about prediction markets particularly for these types of outcomes that that would affect your portfolio setting aside things like sports related uh bets or pop culture related bets although i'm a huge fan of pop culture and sports and find those markets interesting when you're thinking about how it affects your portfolio from an investment perspective i do think that it greatly simplifies the ability for investors to just hedge their portfolio or plan better which is so important as you know we speak to financial advisors and financial planners And their entire business is oriented around planning for the financial future for their clients.
And you need to be able to, in a simplified way, execute those plans in prediction markets and perhaps ETFs wrapped around certain prediction market events is going to make it significantly easier and more straightforward to do that.
So that's the big benefit that I see in terms of wrapping these in financial products.
I mean, Matt wrote about this in his memo, which I would urge everyone to read.
But the accuracy of prediction markets is absolutely incredible, particularly around geopolitical or macro or economic events.
Matt referenced the paper by the Federal Reserve a few minutes ago in the conversation.
And I'll just note that they essentially found that Kalshi was more accurately predicting what was going to happen.
With interest rates and FOMC decisions better than these professional polling services or consensus estimates across all of the experts that aren't in real time like Kalshi is and were less accurate than Kalshi was.
And so the kind of aggregation and filtering of information and accuracy of that information and data is also extremely powerful when you think about using it to influence how you invest or express what you believe is going to happen in markets and how that triggers.
And so the kind of aggregation and filtering of information and accuracy of that information and data is also extremely powerful when you think about using it to influence how you invest or express what you believe is going to happen in markets and how that triggers.
And so the kind of aggregation and filtering of information and accuracy of that information and data is also extremely powerful when you think about using it to influence how you invest or express what you believe is going to happen in markets and how that triggers.
Yeah.
Can I throw in one thing on top of that, LG?
Please.
I agree with that so much.
The other thing that goes unspoken is that the largest institutions in the world have ways to get these odds themselves directly.
Like in the past, hedge funds would pay high-priced lobbyists in DC to figure out the odds of the Clarity Act passing.
I really love that prediction markets surface that for every investor.
So there's a more level playing field.
So I think there's a sort of egalitarian benefit to these as well, which is really notable and really important for the sort of fairness of our investing ecosystem.
Is there a world, Matt, where you just read, instead of reading the news or watching the news, you're just reading this like a, you know, whatever PolyMarket's putting out basically?
Dude, this is one of my favorite things.
I think that PolyMarket should have won a Pulitzer for its coverage of the Trump election link.
Yeah.
It was the only place saying what was going to happen, providing accurate information.
It was better than the polls.
It's better than every media outlet.
If that's not journalism, I don't know, man.
That was the most important story of that year, whether you're happy about it or sad about it.
And it was the only place that got that right.
So, yes, I think a lot of people are going to look as much at PolyMarket and CalSheet as they do at the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal to figure out what's going on in the world.
And they'll probably be better informed.
Here's a good one right here.
So, this is that they have their midterms, midterm elections, dashboard, odds and predictions.
And without even, what I like is how much they've simplified the UI.
And this is just PolyMarket, CalSheet, also lots of Kudos to CalSheet.
I just can't access it as well from my location.
But what I like here is that they've almost, even the trade part is like not that prevalent on the screen.
It's not like, do you want to bet on this?
It's just like, no, here's the information.
Here's just the odds.
And I think that that's a really smart approach that they have taken.
A lot of the other ones are taking.
It's like, hey, it's just giving you the news information, the research that you kind of want to see up front.
And then you can choose if it's something you want to bet on.
So, 53% chance Democrats take the Senate.
87% chance they take the House right there.
And they even give you kind of like your payout if you want to take that bet right there as it would be turning 100.
It tells you specifically what people ask when they get into sports betting.
They're going to be like, so if I bet on this, my $100 becomes how much?
And they just show it to you.
So, really dumbing it down for people maybe doing this for the first time.
And look at this beautiful map.
That's a nice little map.
Unbelievable.
So good.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Really awesome.
Well, Matt, I mean, it's great to hear a great bull case here.
And obviously, I appreciate this piece because you also, for anybody who hasn't seen it, you also address a lot of other stuff, a lot of other concerns that people have like insider trading.
And I think, again, I think people have to look at this kind of like you're saying is like, listen, yes, as a whole prediction markets.
It's like there are some issues.
But if you focus on the parts that where you can actually glean a lot of information, it's actually outperforming other historical sources of information in a way that that's pretty unprecedented.
And that's really where there's a lot of value for traditional finance, for political enthusiasts, for people who just want some accurate form of news.
And it's not always just about some of the smaller, weird markets out there.
So I appreciate it, man.
Gentlemen, I think we'll wrap right there.
We'll be seeing you guys again in a few weeks.
Maybe talk about clarity.
Who knows what else is going to happen between now and then.
But always appreciate you guys making time and sharing a lot of your insight with us.
Thanks, LG.
Thanks, LG.
Great chatting with you.
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