
Co-founder & CTO at @MidasHandxyz · Building the first prediction market on @LitecoinVM · Prior: smart contracts across major DeFi protocols · Love crazy ideas
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the LiteForge builder spotlight on @MidasHandxyz. 🔥
the line I'd underline: "trust in resolution is the entire ballgame for a prediction market." that's the whole thesis. anyone can let you place a bet. whether it resolves cleanly, against the right source, with an audit trail you can check, is the hard part, and the one we've obsessed over from day one.
grateful to @LitecoinVM for the writeup, and to the 159K+ registered users who've made testnet what it is. two months in, just getting started. 🙏
Kane | MidasPredict retweeted
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 to actually trying to do interesting and meaningful things with this class of economic primitive.
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Kane | MidasPredict retweeted
If you missed our inaugural Demo Day last week, we've got you covered 🔥
Three ecosystem projects — @MidasHandxyz, @LesterLabsHQ, and @omega_netw0rk — live demos, community Q&A, and Hard Money Web3 in action.
Full recording below 👇
Kane | MidasPredict retweeted
Hard Money Web3, begin with @LitecoinVM.
Build everything and functioning within Litecoin, be Lit, stay Lit, only in LitVM
Hard Money Web3 is lit. Come see it live 🔥
Join us this Thursday for LiteForge Demo Day — live demos and discussion from three ecosystem projects building on LitVM: @MidasHandxyz, @LesterLabsHQ, and @omega_netw0rk.
🗓️ September 17th, 9:30 AM PST
🌐 discord.gg/hw5UQ7Z6VP
Kane | MidasPredict retweeted
Hard Money Web3 is lit. Come see it live 🔥
Join us this Thursday for LiteForge Demo Day — live demos and discussion from three ecosystem projects building on LitVM: @MidasHandxyz, @LesterLabsHQ, and @omega_netw0rk.
🗓️ September 17th, 9:30 AM PST
🌐 discord.gg/hw5UQ7Z6VP
Kane | MidasPredict retweeted
The strategic investment is the detail worth watching.
LitVM isn't just adding another dApp to the ecosystem — it's putting capital behind an application designed to create direct utility for $zkLTC.
LitVM is proud to announce a strategic partnership with @MidasHandxyz 🔥
MidasPredict is a permissionless prediction market platform — and one of the first teams to build natively on LiteForge. We've made a strategic investment to back their build.
Why prediction markets? Because they represent one of the most powerful on-chain primitives — the ability to speculate, hedge, and discover price on anything, permissionlessly. Having a native, trustless prediction market on LitVM is a meaningful addition to the Hard Money Web3 ecosystem.
But more importantly — MidasPredict creates genuine, compelling utility for $zkLTC. Users will be able to deploy their bridged Litecoin directly into prediction markets, participating in on-chain markets for the first time.
This is exactly the kind of application that expands what's possible with $zkLTC — and demonstrates what Hard Money Web3 looks like in practice.
Kane | MidasPredict retweeted
LitVM is proud to announce a strategic partnership with @MidasHandxyz 🔥
MidasPredict is a permissionless prediction market platform — and one of the first teams to build natively on LiteForge. We've made a strategic investment to back their build.
Why prediction markets? Because they represent one of the most powerful on-chain primitives — the ability to speculate, hedge, and discover price on anything, permissionlessly. Having a native, trustless prediction market on LitVM is a meaningful addition to the Hard Money Web3 ecosystem.
But more importantly — MidasPredict creates genuine, compelling utility for $zkLTC. Users will be able to deploy their bridged Litecoin directly into prediction markets, participating in on-chain markets for the first time.
This is exactly the kind of application that expands what's possible with $zkLTC — and demonstrates what Hard Money Web3 looks like in practice.
Kane | MidasPredict retweeted
We built on LitVM while it was still being built.
From the Builders Program's early window through LiteForge crossing 96K transactions in its first 24 hours - MidasPredict wasn't ported over after the chain matured, it grew alongside it. Every trade, every market, every point earned runs on zkLTC, the same gas token behind the whole ecosystem.
Litecoin's had a real year too - its first U.S. spot ETF, institutional capital betting on what LitVM enables next. None of that momentum is ours to claim. But it's the environment we've been building in the whole time.
Built on @LitecoinVM, settling back to Litecoin.
Full piece:
medium.com/@midashandxyz/bui…
Kane | MidasPredict retweeted
Most prediction markets end up covering the same handful of headline events - the next election, the next Fed call. Not because that's all people care about, but because a small central team can only research and stand behind so much.
MidasPredict flips it: creators build the market on exactly what their community already knows better than anyone. The platform's job is reach, not gatekeeping - every market gets its own page, its own title, findable on its own.
A headline market competes with every other platform running the same market. A niche one doesn't compete for attention - it's often the only version of that question anywhere.
Built on @LitecoinVM, settling back to Litecoin - fourteen years of proof-of-work that never needed to be the loudest chain in the room to matter.
Full piece:
medium.com/@midashandxyz/the…
Kane | MidasPredict retweeted
Nice video making Flippin Bro for @LitecoinVM, and millions appreciation for the shoutout! Midaz 🤣
You are making Litecoiners Lit!
JAMES BOND visits the LitVM bar 🤣
The LitVM bar, ep.7:
A Litecoin $LTC and LitVM sketch.
Enjoy below 👇
Kane | MidasPredict retweeted
‘We picked @LitecoinVM, and underneath that choice is a simpler one we’d make again without hesitation: building on Litecoin.’ - @MidasHandxyz
Why Midas is building on @LitecoinVM?
medium.com/@midashandxyz/why…
Kane | MidasPredict retweeted
Prediction Market that goes beyond the US Narratives, Welcome to Midas, powered by @LitecoinVM!
medium.com/@midashandxyz/bey…
Kane | MidasPredict retweeted
LitVM Ecosystem Update👀:
🔹Midas Hand will have prediction markets that can tap into Polymarket's liquidity from LitVM (way more coming).
🔹Hashlock has partnered with us to handle eco security needs.
🔹Steer recently deployed Atlas (Oracle), adding some needed redundancy.
🔹Fenus is bringing the stock market to LitVM.
🔹New lending market with cutting-edge strategy lab coming soon.
🔹Another privacy protocol is joining us soon.
If you've read this far, type Lit, Lite, or Ł to enter another Captain Litecoin Giveaway!
Thank you to everyone in the decentralized freedom community building and testing LiteForge.✊
Kane | MidasPredict retweeted
Prediction markets stopped being a niche crypto experiment a while ago, monthly volume across the industry has gone from roughly $1.2B in early 2025 to over $20B today, with more than 800,000 unique wallets trading contracts each month. Some analysts see this scaling toward $1 trillion a year by the end of the decade.
That's not hype, that's a market structurally proving something: people want a real-time way to price what they believe is going to happen, and they want to be rewarded for being right.
Most platforms riding this wave were built around the same handful of macro categories, sports, US politics, crypto, gated behind whichever markets a centralized team decided were worth listing. MidasHand exists because we think the next phase of this industry isn't about which platform covers the biggest markets, it's about which platform lets anyone create one.
Permissionless market creation means the story doesn't stop at national elections or major sports leagues. It extends to what people actually talk about day to day, a state governor's race, a smaller country's election, a corporate boardroom drama, an entertainment scandal, a local policy vote. If it's something people have an opinion on, it deserves a market, and on MidasHand, anyone can build one.
We built on @LitecoinVM because we believe Litecoin deserves more than a payments narrative, it deserves a home for real onchain activity. The Litecoin community has always been early, resilient, and underestimated, and we think that same spirit is exactly what permissionless prediction markets need. This is us building where that community already lives.
We designed our AMM so liquidity holds up even in niche markets most platforms wouldn't bother listing.
The industry is still early in its growth curve. We intend to be where the long tail of human curiosity, and the Litecoin ecosystem, finally get the market they deserve.
Midas. Built for what's next.
Kane | MidasPredict retweeted
How far have you made it through LiteForge Pioneer Campaign? 👀
There are now 4 Locations to explore across the @LitecoinVM ecosystem — and the journey keeps getting bigger.
🔗 app.arkada.gg/en/quest-campa…
@litmart has also joined Location 1, so even if you’ve already been there, you might have something new waiting for you.
Projects inside: @sweep_haus, @LiteSwapLTC, @LitVMSwap, @MidasHandxyz, @ZNSConnect, @LesterLabsHQ, @onmidotfun, @aynixyz,
@wolfdexlitvm, @multyra_dex, @ForgedUSD, @OnChainGm, @omega_netw0rk, @myPenny4thots, @drunkencatsxyz, @Infinitynamecom, @Omni_Hub, @WheelX_fi, @LitiumDEX, @LitDEXApp, @betsonblock, @NFTs2Me, @heydotxyz, @0xnothing_net, @aideathmatch, @litgames_litvm, @litpump_, @_tachyonfi, @auraprotocolorg, @mgn_finance, @chainstreak
Complete quests, earn LitPT Points, and climb the leaderboard.
Join now and don’t miss the next ETH milestone!
Kane | MidasPredict retweeted
Prediction markets will fundamentally change how businesses are built and managed.
Companies will increasingly analyze which external events have the greatest impact on revenue and profitability, then hedge those risks using event contracts.
It’s the democratization of derivatives. The same risk management once reserved for airlines, commodity traders and investment banks becomes accessible to every small business.
A few examples:
> Ice cream shop => rainfall
> Delivery riders => heavy rain
> Construction => rainy days / heatwaves
> Hotels => geopolitical escalation (e.g. US–Iran)
> Agriculture => drought / rainfall
> Real estate developers => Fed / ECB rate decisions
Businesses that identify and hedge their key external risks will have more stable cash flows, lower volatility and a structural advantage over competitors.
Kane | MidasPredict retweeted
Ever since Day 1 launching on LitVM, we have only 5 dApps from Day 1 including LiteForge explorer.
Today @LitecoinVM has 70 dApps, still counting.
Well done @circle_crypto and entire LitVM Team building behind the scene! Litecoin is about to get NUTS!
testnet.litvm.com/
Kane | MidasPredict retweeted
LitVM has now reached 160,000,000 transactions and 12,000,000 unique addresses on the testnet! 🔥
I wonder what numbers we are going to see in August and beyond. 👀
Kane | MidasPredict retweeted
LiteForge Testnet Exploration now comes with LitPT.
Explore the @LitecoinVM ecosystem through hands-on quests on Superboard, take on LitStack in Arcade, and stack LitPT as you explore.
Featuring: @LitVMSwap • @MidasHandxyz • @sweep_haus • @drunkencatsxyz • @fenus_protocol • @litclinicxyz • @OnChainGM • @onmidotfun • @RipandLoan • @LesterLabsHQ
More to explore, dropping every week!
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