Balaji Srinivasan

It was also a good post, actually.

Hold on, let me show you this.

There's a...

The reason is, you know, I got to thinking about how would you actually adjudicate truth.

If you just take a look at this, this is my kind of, you know, Twitter thread on it.

If you look at this post, this is from 2020, right?

You see where it says, the ledger, did you see it on screen?

This one?

Yeah.

Yes.

The set of all crypto... ...is of on-chain data.

Social media feeds, data APIs, event streams, newsletters, RSS.

It'll take years to build, will ultimately become the decentralized layer of facts that underpins all narratives.

Closer to this, if you scroll down a little bit further, right?

So click that.

If you just click into that, right?

So right now, people were thinking about this in terms of payments...

mail payments, back-end system, bank payments, market data, events data.

But obviously, polymarket, all these prediction markets, they need to have news data on-chain, right?

Take all these on-chain for trading purposes, but you need them for other purposes as well.