A practical introduction to prediction markets by Clément Lesaege | Devcon SEA
Thu, Oct 2, 2025, 12:00 AM
In this workshop, attendees will participate in "play money" prediction markets on fun events which will happen during the workshop. They will discover how prediction markets work and how they can be used as an information aggregation or decision tools. - Mechanisms of conditional tokens - Categorical markets - Scalar markets - Multiscalar markets - Revelation loss problem - Conditional markets - Futarchy Speaker(s): Clément Lesaege Skill level: Beginner Track: Real World Ethereum Keywords: Futarchy, Collective Intelligence, Economics, market, prediction Follow us: https://twitter.com/efdevcon, https://twitter.com/ethereum, https://warpcast.com/devcon Learn more about devcon: https://www.devcon.org/ Learn more about ethereum: https://ethereum.org/ Visit the https://archive.devcon.org/ to gain access to the entire library of Devcon talks with the ease of filtering, playlists, personalized suggestions, decentralized access on Swarm, IPFS and more. Devcon is the Ethereum conference for developers, researchers, thinkers, and makers. Devcon SEA was held in Bangkok, Thailand on Nov 12 - Nov 15, 2024. Devcon is organized and presented by the Ethereum Foundation. To find out more, please visit https://ethereum.foundation/
Speakers
Clément is a computer scientist. He is the CTO and one of the founders of Kleros, a decentralized arbitration court for smart contracts (subjective oracle). He is working on protocol design (game theory, mechanism design) and smart contract security. In addition to core Kleros work, he is working on use cases such as Sybil resistant systems (Proof Of Humanity) and prediction markets (integration with Omen & Seer). In his personal time, Clément is a competitive Magic the Gathering player.