Hedgehog Markets

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Hedgehog Markets is a recurring organization in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between March 21, 2022 and August 16, 2022. The archive places it in contexts such as “New (to me) site, Hedgehog Markets”; “Hedgehog Markets is a crypto betting site using USDC and Solana”. It most often appears alongside CFTC, Insight, Insight Prediction.

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  • Category: Organizations
  • Mention count: 2
  • Issue count: 2
  • First seen: March 21, 2022
  • Last seen: August 16, 2022

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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.

March 21, 2022 · Original source
4: New (to me) site, Hedgehog Markets. So far they mostly just have entertaining tournaments, but the design is pretty and they seem interested in genuinely solving the decentralization problem, so I’ll be watching them.
August 16, 2022 · Original source
…members of the community it created, betting on its chances, using one of the many descendant sites it inspired. You can’t kill an idea. Hedgehog Markets Wait, isn’t the hedgehog the bad one? Isn’t that why the 538 mascot is the fox?
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.
The community consensus so far seems to be to try to avoid Kalshi as long as it can. There are some good real-money prediction markets open to non-Americans: Polymarket, Futuur, Hedgehog, and Insight Prediction, although Americans will find visits prohibited nationally, and I would never recommend violating precepts negligently. You could also try play-money markets like Manifold, or market-adjacent forecasting sites like Metaculus.