I made $500k during DeFi Summer 2020 and threw it all away minting worthless NFTs all throughout 2021. Must have minted more than 200 projects and not a single one took off. Couldn’t even sell them now if I wanted to.
NEW: Brendan Sorsby attended Cincinnati Reds games on repeated occasions and placed live wagers on balls and strikes, @PeteNakos reports.
The bets ranged anywhere from $2.50 to less than $1 per pitch.
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Respect for the transparency. You’re hitting on challenges we’ve seen businesses at your scale run into when real-world traffic meets the blockchain.
Our team has been heads-down with leaders across the space on how an L1 can fine-tune the execution environment around what serious apps actually need: settlement certainty, predictable costs, and business-specific tooling. Polymarket is the clearest example of a system that needs web2 reliability on web3 rails.
Quick thoughts from the chain side:
Latency: Sonic finalizes in ~500ms, deterministically. No probabilistic confirms, no reorgs. Your “near-instant” target is already reality on an L1 stack. ~10k TPS sustained, sub-second single-slot finality, ~$0.0001 average fees.
Chain migration: Doors are open, and we’re actively making bespoke improvements for serious teams. Most chains slow down as throughput climbs; Sonic is designed to get faster under high load.
Cancelled transactions: At your scale, this is a throughput and execution problem. Sonic’s headroom removes the congestion vector. Deterministic finality removes the reorg vector. Your CLOB shouldn’t be dropping orders because the chain can’t keep up.
Cheap gas, instant finality, battle-tested uptime, and native USDC are default. Prediction markets need reserved capacity for market makers, gasless user flows, protocol-native atomic batching, and app-critical transactions that still land when volume spikes.
Would love to compare notes with your tech team on what Polymarket’s real-world throughput has taught you, and where we can build to support it.
DMs open 🫡
Feeling good and degenerate today.
SGP:
Chelsea/Draw
Over 1.5goals
-300
Chelsea in good form and at home. Leeds defense has bouts of being leaky. I see a 2-1 , 3-1 result.
Feeling good and degenerate today.
SGP:
Chelsea/Draw
Over 1.5goals
-300
Chelsea in good form and at home. Leeds defense has bouts of being leaky. I see a 2-1 , 3-1 result.