Forum Platform: Trading Relevance of Topics Based on Online Engagement
By
Garry Tan
Sat on the counter overnight. Well past its best.
Summary
Forum is a platform that transforms any topic (AI, pickleball, politicians) into tradable assets by indexing online engagement. Users can go long or short on topics based on their changing relevance over time, functioning as a continuous popularity tracking system rather than a prediction market with fixed endpoints.
Key quotes
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We index online engagement around topics and let you go long or short on their relevance over time.
Unlike a prediction market, there's no ending event here. Just increases and decreases in popularity over time.
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