Bodhi at Consensus

Hello Bodhi Family!

We are back from New York’s Consensus and NYC Blockchain Week and wanted to sit down and share our experience from it with you. Consensus is the biggest blockchain-themed conference that Bodhi has attended to date with over 8,800 attendees.

The whole Bodhi team wanted to go so Xiahong ended up making this trip a team outing, so Bodhi was in full force at the NYC events. Many of our newer US-based teammembers finally met Deric, our lead smart contract developer, who joined us in the NY festivities all way from Thailand.

Photo caption: Deric demoing our beta version to two engineers who are hoping to build a prediction market product in Japan.

Prediction Market Panel during Consensus

Consensus is a great opportunity for the blockchain industry to come together, share information, and catch up with projects in the space. We were happy to bring together several prediction market-related projects, including Cindicator, Stox, Blitz Predict and Delphy.

Xiahong Lin, founder, CEO of Bodhi Prediction Market; Mike Brusov, founder, CEO of Cindicator; Yossi Peretz, CEO of Stox; Brett Richey, CEO of Blitz Predict; Fox Holt, VP Business Development from Delphy, discussed

• the idea of “sourcing information from the crowd”;
• the future of prediction markets;
• current opportunities and challenges they are facing;
• the differences in various levels of decentralization and centralization in prediction markets

You can find a full video of this panel here.

Cool People We Met

At our booth, we met traders, investors, exchange builders, hackers, candy lovers and stick collectors. Among the hundreds (maybe thousands?) of people we met at our booth, there were several impressive people and projects.

Firstly a shoutout to professor Jiasun Li from George Mason University who was very interested in Bodhi’s prediction markets along with cryptocurrencies in general. He mentioned a fun fact that the creator of “idea futures” (aka prediction markets) was also a professor from George Mason named Robin Hanson. Check out his article written in 1996 on prediction markets.

Everyone from blockchain projects, hedge funds, and traders asked about using our platform to create various types of prediction events about various topics. There was great interest in utilizing decentralized prediction market to gain an informational edge. Many people also heard about our expansion to Ethereum and the BOE token airdrop happening at the end of this month! (full article here!)

Upcoming Events for Bodhi

We had a great time during our trip to NY, and were happy to meet new friends and colleagues in the blockchain space. Join us for some upcoming events if you’re around!

May 25–27, 2018
Token Galaxy Expo in the San Francisco Bay Area(Discount code “BCF30” for 30% off)

June 3, 2018
The EDCON (Community Ethereum Development Conference) in Beijing

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