Markets for Public Goods | Devansh Mehta | ETHMumbai 2026
Thu, Jul 2, 2026, 12:00 AM
Instead of humans evaluating every project, create a market where traders bet on what those human evaluations would say. This talk shares lessons from using that model to distribute $350,000 to core Ethereum repositories, covering how we designed and ran the prediction markets, from market formats and base rate setting to liquidity seeding and final resolution. Follow Devansh on X: https://x.com/devanshmehta Follow ETHMumbai on X: https://x.com/ethmumbai ETHMumbai 2026 is the BEST Ethereum Conference & Hackathon hosted on 12th – 15th March 2026 in Mumbai.
Speakers
Devansh Mehta has broad experience in the journalism and social sector, including as an investigative reporter and consultant to community media outlets in India. His company VoiceDeck has piloted new technologies with low-resource communities, including blockchain based impact certificates. Devansh has completed a dual Master’s Degree in International Affairs and Investigative Journalism at Columbia University. He was selected for the 2023 Next Billion Fellowship by Ethereum Foundation.