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USDC is a recurring brand in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between August 16, 2022 and March 03, 2026. The archive places it in contexts such as “Hedgehog Markets is a crypto betting site using USDC and Solana”; “MNX uses the stablecoin USDC”. It most often appears alongside Kalshi, Manifold, Manifold Markets.
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- Category: Brands
- Mention count: 2
- Issue count: 2
- First seen: August 16, 2022
- Last seen: March 03, 2026
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- Kalshi (2 shared issues)
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- Manifold (2 shared issues)
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- Manifold Markets (2 shared issues)
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- Metaculus (2 shared issues)
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- Polymarket (2 shared issues)
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- 2024 US election (1 shared issues)
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- 2026 elections (1 shared issues)
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- 538 (1 shared issues)
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- 538 (1 shared issues)
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- @tnim_ (1 shared issues)
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- Agent Economy Of The Future (1 shared issues)
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- AI (1 shared issues)
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Source Context
Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.
Hedgehog Markets is a crypto betting site using USDC and Solana. Most of its markets are about sports. I’m featuring them here because they are, as far as I know, the first group to do something I’ve been waiting for a long time - allow users to create real-money prediction markets.
Inline links: Hedgehog Markets
(the other technological sea change is that this is possible at all. Five years ago, cryptocurrency prediction markets were too complicated. In the late 2010s, a group called Augur raised $5 million for the project but never managed to create usable software. FTX flirted with prediction-like contracts but never got them off the ground even with all their billions. Polymarket was the first to really solve this, making $10 billion in the process, but even they were barely usable in the early days. But Stephen’s making MNX with his own money and a team of 1-2 people. He benefits partly from the vibecoding revolution, and partly from all of the billions of dollars spent on improving cryptocurrency rails - MNX uses the stablecoin USDC).