Finance’s next opportunity is markets that don’t exist yet
THE SO WHAT
Perps and prediction markets show how cheap market creation lets you financialize almost any future state—liquidity and governance, not product design, become the choke points. Builders in this space should optimize for market discovery and guardrails, not just clever payoff structures.
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