I remember that back in the days before Cardano had smart contracts, there was huge demand for NFT trading, but without SCs, people could only send NFTs to each other manually. Because of that, many projects set up third-party services on Discord, where intermediaries guaranteed successful trades and protected users from scams. Later, seeing and taking advantage of this demand, actual SC solutions were built to serve this market.
What
@iamtherealyakuza is doing now with the weekly sport betting events really reminds me of that era. He’s planting the seeds and showcasing a demo that clearly proves there’s genuine demand for prediction markets on Lens. Later,seeing its success, fully automated smart contract–based solutions could easily emerge to meet that demand.
Prediction markets is the future. And this is how big things begin! With small bets on football events via simple polls.
**So when you participate, you actually build Lens's bright future.**
