ryan lock

founder @sibylens, ex-staff engineer at Baton Corp ( devco), UCL CS -- sic parvis magna

[ryan lock @ryanlockqr]

on-chain markets are currently the most obvious medium for collective autonomy.

[Sibylens @sibylens]

@sibylens will be where tradable markets formed around the coverage of events and emerging narratives surface first.

if you want to be early, you need to be on https://t.co/RIgBQwQwIH.

[ryan lock @ryanlockqr]

this study provides evidence at scale for a core thesis
@sibylens is built upon: markets are an incredibly efficient medium for information discovery.

similar to prediction markets, we want to foster bottom-up information discovery.

our approach is to directly incentivise community contribution and participation.

we further extend beyond this model by moving away from predefined binary outcomes and instead using open-ended attention markets to make information discovery around real-world events more permissionless.

[Tarek Mansour @mansourtarek_]

We ran a study on over 2 million markets to evaluate their calibration. To our knowledge, this is the largest replicable study on this topic.

Here are the results: 🧵

[ryan lock @ryanlockqr]

somehow a Cursor extension I made and published on a whim has gotten more than 1,500 downloads in ~2 days?

might be an untapped distribution channel lol

[ryan lock @ryanlockqr]

brb, tokenising the world rq

[ryan lock @ryanlockqr]

crypto products shouldn't expect to grow beyond the cryptosphere if they only prioritise building for users in the space. mainstream adoption starts with providing value outside the core loops we are familiar with.

[ryan lock @ryanlockqr]

consumer tokenisation will play a significant role in the next bull run, just not in the form it takes in the ecosystem right now.

[ryan lock @ryanlockqr]

we don't need new launchpads with more features or an added "twist". we need to explore and experiment with fundamentally new approaches to consumer tokenisation.

@sibylens will pave the way for a new era.

[Sibylens @sibylens]

tokenisation is democratisation.

[ryan lock @ryanlockqr]

On @sibylens, we have canonical markets which we use as the mechanism to tackle a few problems. One of them being the constant vamping and PvP that have been too prevalent in the trenches.

One event/narrative, one market. No fragmented liquidity and the mess it brings.

[ryan lock @ryanlockqr]

This will be the cycle where we finally see mainstream adoption as the real utility of crypto becomes obvious, with the rise of tokenised RWAs, AI agent payment rails, and applications built on top of on-chain infrastructure unlocking entirely new categories of products.

[ryan lock @ryanlockqr]

@sibylens unlocks a new model for community contribution and engagement around real-world events.

Learn more: https://t.co/5YUvla1Bou

[ryan lock @ryanlockqr]

@stutireal Hey Stuti,

Just reached out via DMs! We’re building @sibylens, a platform that creates tradable markets for real-world events. Our team has experience scaling consumer finance applications past $1B in revenue. Keen to chat if this sounds interesting!

[ryan lock @ryanlockqr]

@nemild @ycombinator Hey Nemil, we have been trying to reach out via DMs!

We are building @sibylens, tokenising real-world events into on-chain markets. We’ve applied for YC F26 and would love to connect if this is something you’re interested in.

[ryan lock @ryanlockqr]

@jessewldn Hey Jesse, we have been trying to reach out via DMs!

We are building @sibylens on-chain markets for real-world events. Let us know if there is a better place to reach out.

[ryan lock @ryanlockqr]

consumer ecosystems break down when one group of users feels they're being extracted from while everyone else captures the value.

at @sibylens we are building a protocol where everybody wins.

[ryan lock @ryanlockqr]

too much pvp in the trenches these days smh

[ryan lock @ryanlockqr]

We moved from an age of information to an age of intelligence.

Information pipelines are now infrastructure: same leverage as oil, capital, and energy.

Building @sibylens to democratise information distribution and keep those pipelines open and permissionless.

[ryan lock @ryanlockqr]

tired of waiting for the come up