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[Nick Tomaino @NTmoney]

In the past 4 days there’s been more trading volume of gWEMBY than the total Wemby real world collectibles market of eBAY, Fanatics Collect, etc combined.

Why? gWEMBY is @GrailCo tokenized Wemby real world collectibles onchain.

When Wemby went off on Tuesday night, gWEMBY volume picked up not just on the GRAIL app but also on @baseapp @fomo @dexscreener @opensea and many other apps used by people globally. We saw a big uptick in usage from people who live in countries that don’t have easy access to real world collectibles.

The most useful function of a blockchain is providing global liquidity and interoperability and that’s why every real world asset is coming onchain eventually.

[Nick Tomaino @NTmoney]

Any creator building a real world business must study Chris Brickley.

The Brickley Invitational is the best grassroots basketball event there is. First big stage for future NBA top picks, an incredible venue and great production and overall execution. Many still sleeping on this.

In another life I was a basketball talent scout. Favorites from the 2026 girls and boys games:

CJ Rosser - Sure fire top 3 pick at 6’10 with every skillset. 6’10 might be underselling, he made his coach Matas Buzelis look small in warmups!

Ella Peper - 6’4 (that’s like 7 ft for boys) and can shoot. Great energy and overall vibe on the court!

[Nick Tomaino @NTmoney]

Transparent, global markets and a commitment to truth wins

[Nick Tomaino @NTmoney]

Today is day 21 of the Iran war and over 2000 people have died

Peace markets on Polymarket indicate this will not be another endless war but it's not ending soon

[Nick Tomaino @NTmoney]

they say prediction markets are all sports

the highest volume polymarkets give us useful info about elections, geopolitics and the economy

[Nick Tomaino @NTmoney]

Polymarket web traffic is rising while Robinhood and Coinbase are declining.

We need a polymarket for Polymarket flipping them in 2026.

[1confirmation @1confirmation]

Good background on our journey

Thank you @mattmedved for the love

[Now Media @nowmedia]

He lost his net worth to hackers

Then built a crypto fund on conviction

Now @1confirmation's @NTmoney backed @Polymarket in every round and sits on their board 🌟

His thesis: "The stronger the narrative, the further from the truth"

Read @mattmedved's Luminaries profile ↓

[Nick Tomaino @NTmoney]

This guy built a career telling young men to get a safe middle management job for $90K/yr salary and put it in CDs so that at 75 you can retire and enjoy life.

Sports betting can be bad no doubt. But it also teaches people to take risk, learn and level up.

The world needs more risk taking not less.

[Nick Tomaino @NTmoney]

Society runs on the premise that a small group of people must acquire special intelligence to make decisions that are best for the people. The CIA, NSA, DIA, FBI aka the deep state.

We know power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. But even if intel agencies are well meaning that model breaks in the internet age where people demand transparency.

Open source intelligence ftw.

[Nick Tomaino @NTmoney]

The world needs a movement that addresses the soulless greed of politicians and big companies and focuses on building products that empower people.

Ethereum

[Nick Tomaino @NTmoney]

How to know what’s true:

1) Don’t see yourself as part of any tribe. The second you are a maxi for a coin, Trump hating, MAGA, or whatever the narrative is that sucks you in, you lose

2) Use X to see both sides, steelman everything

3) Use Polymarket to see what people with SKIN IN THE GAME think

[Nick Tomaino @NTmoney]

We need 10,000 more Nick Shirley’s ASAP

[Nick Tomaino @NTmoney]

Of course trading on a prediction market is gambling

So is trading on the stock market, making a startup investment, private equity, etc

The biggest degens on the planet are in Silicon Valley and Wall Street btw, only problem is they aren’t honest about it

[Nick Tomaino @NTmoney]

Took 5 years, a CFTC settlement, an FBI raid, countless other roadblocks that prob will never come to light

Polymarket is finally LIVE for all Americans 🇺🇸🚀

[Nick Tomaino @NTmoney]

New Polymarket app is already top 20 in the whole app store

[Nick Tomaino @NTmoney]

Polymarket is one of the most viewed websites in the world. 15.8m visits in October, up 80% from August.

Coinbase website traffic was down over same period.

The craziest thing about Polymarket brand recognition is that the exchange is still not live for Americans to trade.

When that changes soon, we'll see some of the biggest financial institutions in the world bringing billions in liquidity, millions of Americans trading sports, politics, entertainment and culture, and an exponential increase in people relying on Polymarket as a trusted information source.

My bet is Polymarket traffic flips Coinbase in 2026.

[Nick Tomaino @NTmoney]

Bitcoin and Ethereum never raised venture capital. That’s $2.5T+ in value, the majority of crypto value created to date.

Silicon Valley VCs have tried to co-opt the industry and it’s worked to some degree. But most capitulated in 2021 -2023 by raising too much capital and then deploying in zero sum projects that attract retail attention but don’t do anything useful for the world. They are now flailing, that’s clear with all the shilling and slop.

What’s left is a passionate community of people globally who actually believe in human empowerment and building products that bring more freedom, truth and progress to the world.

[1confirmation @1confirmation]

Polymarket is right about so much because it’s onchain

Onchain = accessible to the world and transparent

[Amandyks @Amandyks]

1confirmation is one of the first drivers of prediction markets.

prediction markets is one of the killer narratives in crypto and the one that is going mainstream.

recently prediction markets popped off even harder after polymarket raised $2b from ICE and gained huge attention.

but before this nobody saw a potential in prediction markets except election times

> at this point 1confirmation was always supporter of polymarket.

as Nick Tomaino stated their VC fund was an early investor alongside Polychain Capital in early 2020.

1confirmation has participated in four confirmed Polymarket equity rounds

> Seed 2020
> Undisclosed 2024
> Series B 2024
> Series C 2025

While those rounds collectively raised about $254 million, Polymarket and 1confirmation never revealed the fund’s individual check sizes.

but Tomaino said 1confirmation's investments into polymarket is "largest in their portfolio"

> that's a defination of driving the narrative.

prediction markets.