Original | Odaily Planet Daily (@OdailyChina)
Author: Azuma (@azuma_eth)
On October 11th local time (October 12th morning Beijing time), Synthetix founder Kain Warwick and Bankless founder David Hoffman had an offline real-life fight in Salt Lake City, Utah.
This game is co-organized by Permissionless and the fighting live broadcast platform Karate Combat. Permissionless is a cryptocurrency-themed conference co-organized by Bankless and Blockworks. The conference will give free tickets to the fighting event to users who hold tickets.
From the perspective of conference marketing, it is not difficult to understand why David chose to participate; as for Kain, he had reached a $500,000 bet with David on the scale of Bankless' sponsorship (essentially investment) of its new project infinex.
Around 10:40 Beijing time, the two fighters came out one after another. Judging from the player data and the noise in the arena, Kain was obviously bigger in size, but David was more popular.
Around 10:44, the two officially started fighting. The match lasted two rounds, which was not long, excluding the rest time in between. It was less than 8 minutes until it ended at 10:52, but the match was full of ups and downs.
In the first round, both sides were relatively conservative at first. The stronger Kain (white pants) took advantage of the upper hand at this time, and once overwhelmed David (black pants) to open the hammer.
然而在进入了第二轮后，或许是 David 更具体能优势，后来居上地两次干翻了 Kain，最终收获了比赛的胜利。
The duel between the two well-known figures in the industry attracted widespread attention from the market. In addition to a large number of community users cheering for the two on the live broadcast channel (the cheering method in the cryptocurrency circle is also unique. When one side is defeated, someone will shout "It's going to be liquidated"...), the prediction market Polymarket opened a betting pool for the duel between the two as early as September 24. As of the time of writing, the trading volume of the pool has approached 60,000 US dollars.
从历史数据来看，常年打造“格斗狂人”人设的 Kain Warwick 的赔率持续领先，赛前预测胜率持续高于六成。
早在今年 8 月，Kain 就曾约架自己的“老冤家” Su Zhu，但遭到后者的拒绝。
ODAILY Note: The contradiction between Kain and Su Zhu has long been in the past. As early as 2021, when Su Zhu announced that it had abandoned Ethereum, the two had quarreled on X.
Before the start of the competition, Kain had a photo of his personal figure yesterday, saying that he had completed the weight and was ready to start war at any time.
On the other hand, David is a bit more reserved. Although he did not show any photos of his muscles, he posted on X: "Everyone ignores the fact that I have more combat experience and training time."
The final result proved that David was not bragging. He won the game, and David's supporters on Polymarket also completed a Jedi counterattack. (The author also made a small profit of 5 U in this wave, and can go to the next local dog.)
After the match, David also gave a speech to express his gratitude for the award and announced that he would review the fight next Monday. It seems that he will have something to brag about for the whole year.
