Bankless · Friday, September 25, 2026
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has publicly endorsed Truro, a new prediction market, praising its commitment to decentralization and ethical practices, contrasting it with what he terms 'corposlop'. This endorsement comes after Buterin previously expressed concerns about prediction markets prioritizing short-term bets over long-term societal value. The Truro token saw a significant price surge following the tweet, though its market cap remains relatively small.
“Glad to see that Ethereum L1 will have a new strong prediction market contender that is dedicated to decentralization and being ethical and not corposlop and actually trying to do interesting and meaningful things with this class of economic primitive.”
“He said, over-converging, that prediction markets were over-converging to an unhealthy product market fit, embracing short-term cryptocurrency, price bets, the sports betting, the dopamine stuff, not the kind of long-term fulfillment or societal information value that he had hoped.”
“The Tru token, it does have a token, was up about 10x after this Vitalik tweet.”