Recently, Polymarket's presence in the crypto world has reached a somewhat outrageous level.
It's not just a traffic hotspot in the crypto circle, but has also crossed into mainstream attention. Some popular prediction topics can get big influencers like Elon Musk to directly interact, like, and share; many related discussions can garner tens of millions of views within 24 hours. This has long exceeded the scope of "crypto circle self-entertainment."
Compared to the silence of Augur back then, the turnaround speed of the prediction market track is indeed worth pondering. From being ignored to being a hot topic across the internet, what exactly has happened behind the scenes? It could be that the market timing has matured, or perhaps the application form has finally found a real demand. Anyway, Polymarket has proven with facts that once prediction markets break out of their niche, their popularity is nothing short of explosive.
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GasFeeTears
· 7h ago
To be honest, Polymarket is just a gambling platform now, merely disguised as a prediction platform.
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PhantomMiner
· 7h ago
Breaking out of the circle is the way to go. Augur really didn't adapt well back then.
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ShitcoinArbitrageur
· 7h ago
Augur was really dead back then, and now Polymarket is taking off directly. Is the difference really that big? It just feels like waiting for the right moment.
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GasWrangler
· 7h ago
honestly, polymarket's just running on polygon so the transaction throughput naturally favors it over augur's ethereum mainnet bloat. if you analyze the actual gas costs, it's demonstrably cheaper to place bets there—that's not hype, that's just base layer optimization doing its job. people gravitating toward it isn't surprising when the alternatives are sub-optimal by design.
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GateUser-bd883c58
· 7h ago
Breaking through the circle is really impressive. Wasn't Augur's downfall due to the product being too complicated?
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StableBoi
· 7h ago
Honestly, Augur died back then because it missed the right opportunity. Now Polymarket is taking off directly, it's simply unbelievable.
Recently, Polymarket's presence in the crypto world has reached a somewhat outrageous level.
It's not just a traffic hotspot in the crypto circle, but has also crossed into mainstream attention. Some popular prediction topics can get big influencers like Elon Musk to directly interact, like, and share; many related discussions can garner tens of millions of views within 24 hours. This has long exceeded the scope of "crypto circle self-entertainment."
Compared to the silence of Augur back then, the turnaround speed of the prediction market track is indeed worth pondering. From being ignored to being a hot topic across the internet, what exactly has happened behind the scenes? It could be that the market timing has matured, or perhaps the application form has finally found a real demand. Anyway, Polymarket has proven with facts that once prediction markets break out of their niche, their popularity is nothing short of explosive.