Nick Slavetsky

[Nick Slavetsky @nikalasikk]

Harsh truth:

Narratives die.
Liquidity rotates.
Revenue compounds.

You can ignore onchain fundamentals now -
or you can learn to trade them early.

Your choice.
(@alkimiya_io)

[Perle Labs @PerleLabs]

Some of our favorite moments from Perle Labs in Seoul, hosted by @DeSpreadTeam 🤩

Huuuge thanks to everyone who braved the cold, brought the energy, and joined the conversation around human-verified AI data and what we’re building.

[Nick Slavetsky @nikalasikk]

Speculation fades.
Cash flow stays 💰

Onchain Revenue Markets let you track how blockspace, users, and demand translate into actual income - not promises.

That’s the edge fundamentals give you.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Try Starlink 🇬🇧

[Nick Slavetsky @nikalasikk]

The beanstalk is sprouting stronger! ✨

Teaming up with Gassy Jack to climb the beanstalk. Collect beans through quests and unlock epic rewards in our gas-free world. Who's in? 👀

https://t.co/IM1OAcEcCv

[Nick Slavetsky @nikalasikk]

ETHGas is introducing the Open Gas Initiative, letting protocols incentivize their users to grow onchain adoption while ending gas fees anxiety for good.

… are you in? 👀

Join Open Gas: https://t.co/qzbfatUYd1
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[ETHGAS @ETHGasOfficial]

Introducing the Open Gas Initiative - a way for protocols to subsidize gas for users, zero-code, for a seamless, frictionless onchain experience.

With OG cohort: @eigencloud, @ether_fi, @pendle_fi, @Velvet_Capital.

👇

[Nick Slavetsky @nikalasikk]

Leveled up in the Great Gas Reckoning with ETHGas! 💪

Baby Jack status: 0.0255 ETH gas spent, 4 Beans earned—supporting the Gasless Future!

Claim your Gas ID at https://t.co/VF2AmXpwN8

[Nick Slavetsky @nikalasikk]

Just unlocked my Gas ID via ETHGas 🪪

I'm a Baby Jack with 0.0255 ETH spent on gas since Beacon Chain - now fueling my climb to the Gasless Future and earned 4 Beans already.

Reveal yours at https://t.co/VF2AmXpwN8

[Nick Slavetsky @nikalasikk]

That’s why Concrete vaults don’t just chase yield - they enforce financial discipline on-chain.
https://t.co/F73POps0wC

[Nick Slavetsky @nikalasikk]

Automation executes instructions.
Management defines what instructions are allowed to exist.

[Nick Slavetsky @nikalasikk]

Concrete flips this model:
decision boundaries are formalized first, then automated.

[Nick Slavetsky @nikalasikk]

Concrete builds on ERC-4626 to deliver predictable vault behavior, transparent ctASSET accounting, and one-click DeFi instead of manual strategy management.

[Nick Slavetsky @nikalasikk]

What DeFi vaults looked like before ERC-4626 👇
custom vault logic
different withdrawal rules
fragile integrations
UX confusion 😵

[Nick Slavetsky @nikalasikk]

https://t.co/F73POpsyma
ERC-4626 introduced a shared DeFi vault standard for tokenized vaults.

[Concrete @ConcreteXYZ]

1/ Phase 1 of the Concrete Social ‘Bags’ Campaign is live.

Your actions = your bags🗿

Start earning today, link below.

[Nick Slavetsky @nikalasikk]

@cascade_xyz Love seeing infra built right

[Cascade @cascade_xyz]

The first 24/7 neo-brokerage.

Trade perpetual markets for crypto, equities, and private assets. Move USD in and out, all from one unified account.

48 hours to secure an early invite.

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[Leo @Leozayaat]

The next ByteDance is a prediction market

The media has profoundly changed. News consumption evolved from passive curation to active engagement. Today, 54% of the U.S. population accessed news via social, and AI is playing an increasing role in our daily information. LLMs paired with a powerful and pervasive “For You” pattern increases convenience, but exacerbate echo chambers: Narrower, more confirmatory, and more polarized.

In a world of infinite mirrors, markets remain the most powerful compass of consensus. An effective prediction market design focuses on matching information providers with varying degrees of knowledge at lowest possible cost. It crowdsources private knowledge and turns them into common information.

While prediction market metrics are growing at unprecedented rates, demand remains constrained and unevenly distributed. Polymarket recorded approximately 1.16 billion dollars in monthly volume in June 2025. Activity spikes clustering around elections and major events. Outside these peaks, most markets have low participation with open interest below six figures. This happens when distribution fails to reach the right long-tail audience and fails to scale.

To achieve social consensus at scale, a prediction market feed should personalize, evolve, and measure itself. Retrieval should surface questions relevant to users' identity, location, and demonstrated expertise. Ranking should prioritize expected information gain per interaction. Exploration should direct attention where uncertainty and user fit are high. Learning should happen online AND onchain. ByteDance's key lesson was precisely matching long-tail content with the right consumers.

Liquidity concentration in headline topics isn't an outcome of natural selection of market topics, but also structural. The Conditional Token Framework is clean and composable but relies on external market makers and loss-bearing liquidity providers. Unlike standardized markets such as perps or tokens, each topic needs to be modeled by subsidized market makers. This approach is expensive, explaining why liquidity bootstrapping remains challenging.

If every topic requires over a million dollars in working capital for proper probability discovery, prediction markets will remain limited to select topics, and the future of media will devolve into just another glorified sportsbook. The core mechanism needs to be liquidity-agnostic, such that a $1000 market feels as engaging and fun as a $100 million market. Without protocol-level innovation, scaling liquidity for new markets will repeatedly face the same costly issue.

We are working on all these big problems at 42. We are building a prediction‑market protocol that localizes, personalizes, and evolves. By pairing an innovative suite of liquidity‑agnostic mechanisms with identity‑aware distribution, we aim to unlock market consensus on any topic. Long-tail topics aren't niche. They're where most tacit, local knowledge resides. This is where prediction markets truly shine.

Come work with us to build the next generation of media. Break free from the world of infinite mirrors.

https://t.co/ylmeoHTlKb