Why Polymarket Made Me Rethink Prediction Markets — and Why You Should Care
Whoa! That first trade hit harder than I expected. I clicked, watched the price move, and felt a tiny ping of discovery — and panic — at the same time. Trading a binary question on an event seemed simple, but it felt alive in a way my usual DeFi dashboards never do. My instinct said: this is just speculation. Then the next day the market price moved in a way that made me re-evaluate how information flows in real time. Polymarket, at its core, is straightforward: people bet on outcomes and prices aggregate beliefs. Yet there's a deeper layer where…