Vitalik Buterin stated on X: "Polymarket is unique because its growth phase aligns with real existing social issues, suitable for helping to address this problem (in 2024, there is immense distrust in partisan media in the United States and elsewhere).

What specific large-scale social issues is crypto technology suitable for helping to solve now or in the near future? (In fact, we hope to look for situations involving the collapse of centralized institutions, those that are distrusted or widely regarded as harmful, and where there is significant demand to bypass them)."