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Space: 2025 Recap, 2026 Vision
Recorded: Jan. 5, 2026 Duration: 0:59:33Space Recording
Short Summary
Space is gearing up for a major Token Generation Event (TGE) this month following a successful $3 million fundraising round and a public sale that has already surpassed $10 million in commitments. With thousands of participants and a growing community, the project is set to redefine prediction markets in the crypto space.
Full Transcription
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Music Hello, hello. Thank you everyone for joining.
Appreciate everybody jumping on on this fine Monday in early January.
Thanks to some of our speakers that have come on as well. If I can ask everyone
just to stay on mute for the time being, I'll go through some updates from space, give a bit of a
summary on what's been happening and what's going to happen. And then we'd love to open up the floor
and have a kind of wider group discussion as well. So I can see a lot of familiar faces have joined.
Eric Stevens, what's up, man? Function, Berry, Impossible Finance. I can see Bromi, Edu,
Cheat Coiner, Rand, hey guys. Eva, Based, just trying to see if I can see some of our
like most loyal community members as well. Yeah, Cryptoxys, 1966 Mustang.
What a name.
Dazed, Upgray.
Honestly, so many names to go through.
Fusi.
Yeah, hello, everybody.
And thank you so much.
Thank you so much for joining us, guys.
Today, I think it's going to be a big one.
I think we've got some exciting updates.
We've got some cool news to share.
And yeah, I'm very, very happy that everybody could join us
on this very fine Monday at the start of January.
So today, we're going to be talking about everything that Space has accomplished in 2025.
And then we're going to go into what 2026 is going to look like,
as well as all the reasons why we should all be bullish.
I think everybody's seen that our community and following across socials
has grown by tens of thousands of people across Twitter,
our X community, the Space Council has grown significantly
over a very short period of time. And of course, on Telegram at Space Chat, as well as at
into.space. Those are our only two official Telegram channels. Every single day, we're
excited and grateful to welcome so many new people into space.
So, yeah, how did we get here?
Well, it all started six months ago with a very simple idea that prediction markets shouldn't just be a place to trade.
They should be a place where people put real money behind what they actually believe.
When money's on the line, the signal gets a lot clearer.
You often find out what's really happening before it shows up on the news.
And I think that people are very tired of opinions and headlines and narratives
being pushed at them by the news and media.
So we see prediction markets as a way to let people themselves decide what is most likely to be true.
Our first backers were from Echo, where our syndicate lead, Barry, who's on this spaces right now, he's on as a speaker, he's muted for now, but we'll bring him up shortly. And his group plums, you know, that we had the pleasure of meeting.
Barry, to this day, one of the funniest people I've ever met.
He makes me laugh on a daily basis.
And he just has some of the most hilarious YouTube videos that I've ever seen.
He sent me just something insane earlier.
So, you know, they came on at the earliest stage. They believed in our
vision. They helped us break the record and become the most oversubscribed raise in Echo's history.
We raised over $3 million and we refunded $2.8 million. We kept our heads down and we just kept
on building. We then closed our seed and strategic round where we raised $3 million from venture capital, including Morningstar Ventures, Arctic Digital, and of course, angel investors as well as curated community by Impossible Finance.
I can see Impossible Finance has joined us here today as well.
Thank you for joining, guys.
Another awesome, awesome team to be working with.
They've been absolutely incredible throughout this journey,
very supportive, always here to show their support.
Yeah, it's been amazing.
And, you know, big, big thanks to the VCs as well.
Morningstar were amazing to work with as well as Arctic Digital. So I want to say a huge, huge shout out to everybody for believing in us.
But of course, you know, Berry, Plums, Echo, just at that early stage where we had very little
and no one was really talking about space.
They believed from the beginning as well as our community.
And we will never forget that.
We were then very fortunate to
partner with some very big names in the space, some of whom have been announced and others that
will be announced in time, including Pith, Moonpay, Helios, and many more on our Xfeed.
Some of these partners, we actually had the pleasure of meeting in person at Solana Breakpoint in Abu Dhabi.
And some of these have become our friends and supporters of space, which has been a great experience.
We also started building our app, which is coming to Seeker, also known as Solana Mobile,
and getting more deeply integrated within the OG Solana ecosystem and forming the alliances that will take space to the next level.
It's also been awesome working with Mario Nafal and IBC Group
who hosted space on their live stream with Mario.
Do make sure to check out our Twitter feed for the live stream below
where we actually unveiled the Space platform for the
first time around 44 minutes into that stream. Don't go now, but maybe after this. Additionally,
we were very honored to be featured in the Binance Research Report of December 2025.
of December 2025, Space was actually the only pre-TGE prediction market platform,
which was included, which was great to see. December 2025 was also a huge month for Space
as we took over crypto Twitter and kicked off our public sale, which is still live at public.into.space.
We ended up extending the public sale as the original dates were over the holiday period.
And I think everybody was very busy.
We had a lot of community members, partners, KOLs, funds just reaching out, asking for an extension,
asking for an extension, needing more time to participate, to do research,
needing more time to participate, to do research,
as I think everybody was just more keen on spending the holidays with their friends and family.
But now, as we kickstart 2026, we're very excited about what is ahead.
In our New Year's post, we gave a little nod to our Chinese community.
We gave a little nod to our Chinese community.
You know, it's of course the year of the fire horse that we're entering,
which is a very special element in Chinese culture
that only happens every 60 years.
And it's said to be a powerful year for everyone
who's been working hard, who's been putting in the effort.
And it is said that the stars will align for any person or team who's been preparing,
who's been working hard and executing properly. So whether you believe in these things or not,
I think everybody is very excited to see what 2026 has in store for us.
We have some very exciting news and announcements on partnerships and integrations that you're going to be seeing very soon on our timeline.
We also have our very own live stream coming up in around a week or so.
So just keep your eyes peeled for that. It's going to be packed with all kinds of teasers and alpha
about the space platform in a new format that nobody has ever done before on crypto Twitter. So we're very, very excited to share that with you guys.
And then, of course, we'll have the much anticipated TGE of space,
which is just around the corner this month.
We know you've all been waiting for that.
We're also extremely excited for it also.
Speaking of which, the last chance that anybody will have to get
hold of space tokens before you have to go and fight on the open market for them is going to be
through the public sale, which is at public.into.space. We're currently at over 290% oversubscribed,
last time I checked, which is just insane demand given the current
market. And I think it's just proof that everyone listening is early on the next big thing.
We've now got our eyes set on the next big milestone, which is 10 million. I think this
is going to be a powerful statement to make in conditions like these.
I think it's really easy to get behind winners when times are good,
when the markets are perfect, when everyone's bullish.
But when a project can show demand like this through turbulent times,
it means that the project can thrive in any weather.
So there's only about 24 hours left in the current tier, which is God's gamble.
This gives anyone the chance at getting in at an insane airdrop, if you get lucky, of course.
And then at the end, all participants are either getting their allocation or they're getting fully refunded. And I can see, or partially refunded, sorry.
And I can see that people are already sizing in for partial allocations in this final stretch. So if you've been sat on the fence, clock's ticking to get in. Of course, bear in mind, there will be
one final tier after this one. But this is the final 24 hours opportunity to get in during God's Gamble, which is a
tier that I'm very excited about.
So now that I've had my sip of Yappuccino and just yapped for 16 minutes, I'd love to
open up the floor for any guest speakers that want to join me up on stage I've
accepted a few invites already if anybody else wants to come on say
something feel free come and come and say hello guys yeah I'm ace you said
that this is you've got this crazy live stream thing happening.
I mean, you said this has never been done.
I mean, you're just doing world's first over and over again with space.
Can you give us a little bit of a tidbit?
I mean, when's the time and date going to be announced and what is the format?
Tell us, Ace, you got to tell us.
This is classic Barry, just pushing for alpha, pushing for more info.
Love to see it.
Yeah, it'll be announced within the next week and we want to do it in, I think, just over
a week's time.
So yeah, stay tuned for that.
You can expect some alpha, you can expect some teasers, some sneak peeks, more on the
platform, which we're really excited to
to share as well and yeah the um yeah we'll do a full kind of presentation and we'll be able to
show you guys everything that we've been uh been working on it's the um it's the way you said it's
in a way that's never been done before that i'm not thinking like is it from like a
water slide is is ace now going to space i mean is he going to be in space uh you know is this
yeah it's going to be from from space i'll literally be on a spaceship in space doing a
live stream i don't want to give too much away but but yes, I will be in space. We're going to send me into space with enough oxygen for 24 hours.
And we're going to see how it goes.
We're going to see how it goes.
That'd be very good.
Yeah.
And you talked about, obviously, the different kind of stages of raising funds, you know, from the early days when, you know, we had that when you know we had that first conversation i
remember that first conversation that we had um and i remember exactly where i was i was sat in
like a flipping laundromat i was washing some clothes and we were talking and then you know
all the way through to now where you know you push in for like 10 10 million I mean, things have got out of hand quick.
It's all kind of snowballed.
Take us through some moments where you were like,
I'm so glad that me and the other,
as in you and the team are building this right now. When was when was the, like, most exciting moment in this journey so far?
Yeah, that's a great question.
That's a really good question.
I think for us, Echo was the, like, most memorable
because that was our first kind of fundraising round,
you know, with you, with Plums on Echo. And that was the point where
we would actually get to see, is this really something exciting? Or is the team just completely
delusional? You know, are we gonna see the market reinforce how we feel and how excited we are and reinforce the fact that we think we're on this,
the next big thing and we're building something super, super exciting. And, you know, at first,
I think when the Rays was started, you know, it kind of filled a bit slowly and, you know,
there was kind of talks in the team like, oh, you know, it's already been 24 hours or 12 hours,
it's kind of moving slowly.
And there was just this crazy snowball effect where it got to,
I don't remember what it ended on.
I think it was like over 1,300% oversubscribed.
And there was this ridiculous demand.
And everybody, including you, was just pushing us like,
can we have more allocation?
Can we have more allocation?
Don't refund people.
Take the money.
And I think at that point,
we were like, oh, right, this is, you know, people do believe in this, and they are as excited as we are. And there's even some community members that are even more excited than we are, which has been
so cool to see. So I think that was the most memorable. And I think, yeah, during the public raise as well, that's been really exciting to see because, as I said, the market conditions have been pretty terrible.
And I think that, especially over the holidays, no one's at the computer, everyone's with friends and family, everyone's, you know, getting a bit drunk, getting a bit merry.
You know, we didn't expect to be hitting the target within,
I think it was like 24 hours. And now I think, yeah, we've got this milestone, we've got this
sort of goal, this, you know, pursuit of 10 mil that we want to go for, we want to really push
for. I think it's definitely achievable. And I think that's just going to be such a strong statement.
And of course, we're not going to keep anywhere close to that. But still, just to be able to show that much demand and do these mass refunds and just go, look, this is how much everybody's interested in space. I think that's a really big statement. And I think that builds so much hype and anticipation for TGE and for the platform.
And what I love as well, not to yap too much on this, Barry,
but what I love about the public sale is that
this is just such a good way for us to be onboarding users on the platform
because a lot of people are investing at certain tiers
to unlock certain perks where they're able to unlock certain perks on the space
platform, you know, like discounted trading fees, things like increased referral rewards,
you know, things like a higher tier on the platform, unlocking certain achievements on
the platform. So all these people that unlock these perks and tiers and benefits, they're
definitely going to want, in my opinion, they're going to want to log into the platform and see, what have I unlocked? What's this all about? And try it out.
And so far, we've had thousands of participants. I haven't seen the latest numbers, but I remember
it was quite a lot. I think it was maybe 4,000 or 5,000 even that participated so far last time
I checked. And I really hope, even if half of those people go and join,
alongside the waiting list, obviously, we had a waiting list on Telegram where people have joined
a waiting list to try out the platform, which has got over 20,000 people there. So we're really
excited to see how many of the people on the waiting list, how many of the people that participated in Echo
on Curated by Impossible on the public sale
will go ahead and try the platform.
And we're very confident that once they try it,
they're going to love it.
Because no one's done gamification,
no one's done achievements,
no one's done points.
You know, like the platform is just designed
to just keep you there. So for those with, you know, like the platform is just designed to just keep you there. So for those
with, you know, trading and betting addictions, just be careful. But for those that are excited
to try it out, we're very, very, very, very excited to kind of show it off. Oh, I can see
our friends at MoonPay joined as well. Hey guys, yeah, we've had an awesome experience
with Moonpay.
They've been amazing to work with
and we're super excited to announce
a little bit more about what we're doing with Moonpay.
So far, it's been kept a little bit hush-hush.
But yeah, Moonpay has been incredible.
Like we met them at Breakpoint.
What a great team.
Just really positive, really hardworking, super intelligent team.
So yeah, thank you for joining, guys.
I appreciate it.
Yeah, nice.
Ace, you mentioned about community there
and how it's been great to see some people get even more excited about space than you.
you know and how it's been great to see some people get even more excited about space than you
um have you had um and then you talk about you know partners integrations like moon pay
have any of those kind of interactions stood out and gone oh man this is so good to be working with
this person you know this they've just um done way more or they've they've bent over backwards or they've inspired you?
Yeah, yeah, absolutely.
I think actually several, to be honest with you, several.
I think, as I mentioned with you, Barry, not to hype you up too much,
but yeah, you've been amazing, man.
We speak to you on a daily basis.
You've been great, very supportive.
You always join.
You always help out, which has been great. Very supportive. You always join. You always help out,
which has been great. Impossible Finance have been amazing, curated. They've been awesome to work with, like just great energy on the team, super responsive, make decisions fast, move fast.
So for any projects out there, you know, looking to fundraise, looking to get good backers,
looking to get the community in, I think both Plums on Echo as
well as Impossible Finance curated are great. In terms of the integrations and partnerships,
yeah, as I said, the guys at MoonPay, not to go too deep into it, but Sean,
Andre, the team there, they've been really, really great to work with.
They are some of the just coolest guys in the space I've met.
They invited me to a great event in Abu Dhabi where we met some other cool people.
Yeah, they've been incredible.
And the tech they're building is amazing.
Once you guys see the payments processing on space,
you're going to be able to see just how insane
the MoonPay technology and wallet connect features
and everything are.
You know, I was shown during Breakpoint,
I was just, I was very, very bullish.
So I'm excited to kind of show that once the platform is live.
And then, yeah, definitely the guys at Pith,
they've been amazing to work with. Again, another great team, which was awesome. And of course,
Helios. I think Helios has amazing, amazing products. We're using actually quite a few of
the products that they offer. I think it's called LaserStream, especially we're tapping into, which has been great. And yeah, Pith, I think we just love
because of their mascot, which is a broccoli, which has kind of become like an inside joke
between the two companies, which has been great. So yeah, man, it's been really awesome. And I think what's been cool to see as well
is attention on prediction markets recently.
And obviously, guys, anyone else that's up as a speaker,
just feel free to jump in.
I don't know if you guys saw,
but obviously the US captured Venezuela's president
and Trump announced it after the operation was already done, then the news reported
on it. But days before it was announced, somebody on Polymarket was placing large bets on Maduro,
getting captured, getting removed, when the odds were at like 5% or 7%, extremely low.
So not to sort of encourage insider trading, but still, I think what's really
cool about this is that prediction markets were the first to report this. You could have actually
known that he's going to get captured from prediction markets before it actually happened,
before the news reported, before Trump reported it. So it's just such an exciting platform to be working on,
such an exciting industry where you see news breaking out
on prediction markets before they're actually announced.
And I think this is what makes us super bullish on the product.
Hey, Eric. What's Guccici uh yeah i know that i wanted to just chime in on that and i saw that
that's crazy you know i think the guy put like 30 grand in and made 400k i just wanted to ask
you know uh i guess what would have that looked like with uh you know leverage if you could just explain that for the people who
maybe don't understand how that happens there's two things right and i think the um you know the
first answer is they could have made potentially a lot more money but at the same time um i think
it's important to also um you know for me to be quite transparent about it,
which is, in truth, you know, I'm not sure exactly what the liquidity and volume was on that market.
So I'm not sure how much you'd be able to leverage up that position, because somebody on the other
side has to take that trade. And I think, Eric, again, I'd love to sit here and just
get super bullish on space and go, oh, that guy could have made 4 million instead of 400k.
But I think the truth is that that market was sat at 5% possibility for him getting captured or removed.
And I don't think that anybody would take up
such a big position in the opposite direction.
I think that the guy that put in the,
I don't know, 40, 50K, whatever he put in,
I'm sure he tried to put a lot more,
but people weren't taking the other side of that trade.
So yeah, they could have made four mil, sure.
But these extremely
high risk markets can be very tricky just to be completely honest with everybody
bullish i just wanted to highlight the fact that you know what is uh interesting about space to me what stood out was really just the
ability to to leverage trade prediction markets because as someone who's been using prediction
markets for a while now but who also comes from the meme coin space uh one of the things that
you know kind of i felt was lacking was the opportunity to make those like crazy
returns so you know i'm definitely looking forward to that with space but yeah that's that's all i
wanted to say yeah yeah no i i appreciate that man and you know you've you've been kind of supporting
us uh from the early stages as well and um yeah it's uh it's been been great been great to have met you. I think we met in Dubai, I think, you know, a little while before we started pushing everything.
So yeah, appreciate the support and you believing in us from such an early point as well, man.
I really appreciate it.
I can see Functions here as well.
What's up, man?
What's going on, brother?
How are you?
Good, man. What's going on, brother? How are you? Good, man.
Good.
Good.
Yeah, you saw the news about this polymarket kind of insider trading thing as well?
Dude, yeah, I saw that.
Everybody was like, it's Barron Trump or it's this other guy from WLFI.
I was like, damn, that's fucking,
how do I get in the Trump cabal, bro?
Someone hook me up.
Yeah, if the Trump cabal are listening,
please send us a DM.
We'd love to join with some insider trading.
That's hilarious.
Yeah, shoot your boy function and invite, bro.
Yeah, but that's the interesting thing, right?
It's like, do you view it as insider
trading? I guess you do. But then do you also see it as like an early market signal?
You know, there is that element. That's the thing that I found kind of most interesting
about it as well. Yeah, it's hard to like, really, it's hard to really label it as
one thing or the other. Like clearly it's insider information and like i guess a lot
of people are going to be really angry about that a lot of people are gonna be like not really give
a shit because it's like not necessarily a heavily regulated market yet yeah um if anything for me
like what what it does is it kind of shows the potential of prediction markets to the general public more it kind of brings hype up you know um i'm a big
meme coiner i love to fucking sit in the trenches and bid 15k coins uh mostly because it's like
where is there any other opportunity to turn 100 200 300 dollars into 10 20 grand 100 grand etc um and this kind of shows
that there there is that there that opportunity for prediction markets you know um and so i don't
know like whether it's insider or not it's done and there's nothing anybody can really do about it
um but it does just show the
opportunity for prediction markets which i think is pretty cool yeah yeah 100 man it's been really
cool to also just see prediction markets as a you know as a tool um and as a narrative just blow up
over the last few months when we started uh building space there was it was just nowhere near as big as it is now and nobody was talking about you know the big players like cowship holy
market um obviously you know i think it helped with the uh i remember it was like when they
released the south park episode um which which mentioned the two i don't know if any of you guys
watched that it's hilarious um but that just kind of brought, weirdly,
so much more attention to it.
And it kind of like made it more mainstream.
Of all things that can happen, a South Park episode.
We'd love to see space on a South Park episode at one point.
Who knows, man?
Maybe in future.
But yeah, it's been great to see the industry evolve for sure.
But yeah, let me see if anybody else wants to say a couple of words,
come up as a speaker, maybe any of our community members
I can bring up just so it's not always the same people.
I've seen NATO
NATO's been with us for a while
I'll bring him up
he can say a few words
just while we're waiting for him to come up
you know, is it insider trading?
is it not insider trading?
I don't know, but a wise man
once told me
that people lie
and money doesn't who told me that people lie and money doesn't.
Who told me that, Ace? You know this?
Well, I've heard that before on a certain extremely bullish video.
I must have watched that video 50 times that we posted.
For those that don't know what Barry's talking about,
just scroll down on our feed. There is a video called People Lie, Money Doesn't. And it's one that we put a lot of
time, effort, energy, brain capacity, many, many hours into and money. So please go and check that
out. Yeah, I just brought up UpGrey and NATO. What's up, guys? How's it upgrade and nato what's up guys how's it going
yo what's going on man how y'all doing this morning good brother good good thanks for joining guys
absolutely i just had one thing to touch in you're just talking about that whole thing with the
ecuadorian situation and the guy betting i mean like i know a lot of people military and a lot
of it was talking about in my area and you know considering the transponders went off on a lot of things i
mean there's a lot of ways you could play that you know when you're considering you know insider
information or not just watching certain analytical devices like you know there's
entire accounts based on tracking certain things.
So one was like the transponders of all the military jets in the area.
And those kicked off, I think, seven hours before news broke.
So when certain things like that happen, you can kind of quantify actions.
So you see something like that happens, then someone apes X amount on X, Y, or Z.
You could actually build out for looking for those things.
So that's something I'm very bullish about with space being an application the way it is, the way it's built out.
Yeah, and especially with leverage, you'll be able to kind of, if you are right, if you do have some insight that nobody else has,
it allows you to really capitalize on that, you know, as Eric was pointing out as well.
How's everyone feeling about 2026?
What's everyone's predictions?
Are we bullish or are we bearish, guys?
What's your thoughts?
Bullish.
I'm bullish, bro.
I'm bullish, but I'm also a fucking bull tard,
so I'm always perma-bullish.
Nice, nice.
I have a nuanced take. I mean, I've been unreasonably bullish for the past,
what is it now, eight years of my life in this space.
And, but, you know, things this last year has been, you know, difficult for a lot of players,
a lot of projects. It's been rough out there. And what we've seen is this, um, uh, a real shift from, you know, in the 2017 and the 2021 cycles, you could throw a dart at coin market cap and make multiples.
Right.
Whereas now you have to focus on amazing products that are solving real problems.
You know, it's like, it's like we've matured to a point where it's like, oh,, we have to, you know, back things that are doing, you know, that have actual narratives, that have professional teams, that are building the right things and then um you know you can be
bearish on um you know the throth that we've had in in the past so and it goes back to what you
said earlier you know that you know to to be able to raise this much money you know um you know with
the market conditions as they were you know let's uh know, if we forget the last two days where things we've had a short reversal,
but you know, it's, it's fantastic to see.
And it's because people see how important prediction markets are,
how they are a key narrative, you know, it's, it's,
you can compare it in mindshare to perpetuals as they were a year ago with
hype.
Um, right.
I mean, that's, that's what it feels like to me. And it's like, okay, well I need to bet accordingly and I need to, you know, back
for teams building the coolest stuff.
Right.
Um, and so, yeah, when you say I'm a bullish for 2026, I am, I think there's a
load of cool indicators coming out.
You know, we see, um, you know, uh see, you know, the money printer starting back up.
You know, we see, you know, Trump trying to defend the markets.
We see markets making new all-time highs.
We see this, that, and the other.
But really, we've got to hone in on the best projects out there
and spend our time, effort, energy funds on those projects,
really.
Yeah, absolutely.
And I think the really exciting thing for me and the team about space as well, it's
not so reliant on crypto and it's not reliant on bull run, bear market, any of that stuff, because ultimately it's a trading platform.
And I think that whether it's bull market or bear market, I think people are always interested to trade on these real world outcomes and interesting narratives.
You know, even if it's bear market, people still get excited to bet whether Trump's going to, you know, I don't know, throw some tariffs on China today or do his
YMCA dance at an interview. It's evergreen. It's exciting for people no matter. Yeah, exactly. It's
evergreen and it doesn't even need crypto. We see it as like a Web 2 slash Web 3 product. And of
course, you can trade with crypto. But once you add payments from
fiat, it just doesn't rely on crypto at all. I think the good thing is, though, that a lot of
the revenue goes into buying back and burning the token. So our hope with that is that during these
sort of market downturns, and if we have like a year of bad conditions,
that the token price will still kind of,
it'll be like self-sustaining and self-supporting,
which is for me, I think, a very cool feature, personally.
You missed an opportunity to do an awesome segue there
and say, and it's very good.
Hey, good stuff on stage, what's up, player? That's what you should have done,
it's just, just throw that out there. I missed it. Hey, what's up, good? How's it going,
man? GM, happy to be here. How are you guys doing? Good, man. Thanks for joining, brother.
Thanks for joining. Good. We just caught the end of that bit.
Good. Tell us, I mean, when one thing that has,
we're just talking about cycles as well,
something different in this cycle is there has been a reduced number of retail
participants.
One thing I think about prediction markets is it's going to onboard huge
amounts of new retail participants, you know,
people that might not have been involved in crypto otherwise, right?
Which is why partnerships with people like MoonPay is important to be able to, you know,
onboard them, you know, seamlessly in app.
What are your thoughts about the kind of average man on the street good and what they're going to do with prediction markets?
Is that something you see happening or not?
No, absolutely. I think it's going to be a very big year at least 2026 for prediction markets
like we've seen last year how polymarket and calci kind of you know disrupted or at least
behaved in the markets right we did over you know they did over 40 billion dollars in volume
and then you know consumer retail got a glimpse as to what prediction markets are.
I think a lot of the conversation after it comes around like UI, UX, right? Unfortunately,
or at least fortunately, what we notice often with like prediction markets is that
if you have like a solid UI or UX, that's what actually, that's what people look at first to
give your platform like a chance, right?
And one of the, you know, apps that I like a lot that came out last year that I think, you know,
if we had a mix of this plus prediction market, I think it would go extremely viral.
It's formal.
I think a lot of you kind of saw that on like the timeline.
The experience is kind of unique.
And also, you know, the social elements, which I think space is bringing also to the market. You have like the leverage option, which is, you know, people have been asking for it.
But in terms of consumer, I think even before they get to like the leverage and all of these things,
they have to, you know, be have like a very unique experience. Once they have that,
then the leverage and all the other, you know, stuff is going to come automatically.
That's what I think is mostly going to happen, you know, 2026. And, you know, last year and beginning of this year, I've been fortunate enough to be behind the scenes and I try to help wherever
I can on like prediction market projects. And there's a lot of people building behind the
scenes, right. And it's always, you know know trying to tackle the same problems and i think
this is you know they're not going to sit idle and wait until the bull run or whatever market
conditions are going to come out they're going to come out and they're going to force people to
you know use prediction market they're going to do their own marketing and it's i mean it's it's
going to be bigger than what we've seen last year is what I'm trying to see. Good. You've been early to prediction markets, and I'd say,
I don't want to use the term KOL, but you are an opinion leader
in prediction markets.
And that's happened gradually, then suddenly.
People listening, who should they be
listening to? What kind of information should they be consuming in prediction markets? Like you,
you found space and, uh, you know, relatively early, um, you know, you're active in the space.
What, um, yeah, what, what's your advice to kind of anyone listening, if they want to get involved more with prediction markets and space as a platform this is actually a very um you know interesting question um because when you get
on like x and you're trying to know more about prediction markets i think you're you're gonna
stumble upon like a lot of noise right and you're going to see a lot of like um at least more recently like the end of 2025 you'll see more about you know how to make money with ai
bots and stuff like that one thing i often say is that if you first want to understand like uh
prediction markets and all of that just ignore ignore like these type of posts i know most of
us are here to you know make money and stuff that. But if you're truly interested and want to understand the fundamentals,
there's already like resources that a lot of people share,
whether it's like Robin Hanson on food charts and prediction markets.
There's a lot of documentation, how AMMs and LPs work.
If you're not technical, I would suggest just going on like Polymarket
and trying out like, you know, just
just the feel of how it feels to be able to trade. They have some good, you know, documentation there.
But in terms of KOLs, like I can't give you like a list, to be honest. The best way to learn is
to reach. You see a project that you like, reach out to the project and ask them what exactly are you guys working on and I know more about it so to me that
would be more valuable than just no following just a you know random KOL
is at the end of the day you know most of most people are here are in it for
the money so that's that's what I would recommend essentially yeah nice very good advice um ace is back ace i see you've got some other friends in the uh the
audience as well um yeah thanks for joining guys like i can see uh i can see money lord
money lord is here what's up man man? And a few other guys.
Panamax, James Bull, CryptoGodJohn, the man himself.
Edu, thanks for joining, guys.
Appreciate it.
Yeah, if anybody wants to come up as a speaker,
I think all the speaker slots are full for now.
But, yeah, we can try and squeeze somebody in.
And I see that we have also someone on as a speaker here with, I think it's a name in
Chinese that I'm unable to pronounce.
You should try it.
You should try it.
I will try.
You should try it.
Well, I can read out the English tag, actually.
It's ZigmaPratama48.
What's up, man?
Nope.
ZygmaPratama.
He's feeling shy, and I can understand it.
Maybe I was a bit disrespectful.
No, it could be the... I mean, I can see it. Maybe I was a bit disrespectful with trying to...
I can see a
connection issue on his accounts. I think
it might have just been
a connection
issue as so often happens on
Spacers.
I was hoping he'd jump on and just say some
bullish stuff about the year of the fire
horse, which has
been getting the team fired up
like everyone's like oh it only happens every every 60 years this is like it's meant to be
you know the stars are aligning uh i was hoping to get some uh sort of uh feedback on that from
from somebody that might what might be more of an expert than we are what's um particularly crazy i
mean by lunar new year uh space will have been operating
probably for nearly a month right i mean we will be we'll be deep in the uh prediction market
trenches uh you know the for lunar new year it's gonna be dope to uh to see ace i wonder um you
know we're talking about different prediction markets and is there any like super super niche prediction markets you think will
come about that will become really popular like if i can just throw something out when you said
oh the speaker slots are full i was like i don't mind stepping down i'll just go back to looking at
you know bikini pictures on x you know grok bikini pictures and uh and and you know that would be a super niche um you know prediction market
like will grok stop um making bikini pictures by this date i'm like i'm gonna bet on that i'm gonna
bet no like this is the best thing to happen on this app uh as far as i'm concerned for a long
time my wife is gonna kill me uh oh man i hope she's not listening dude oh i can see her cozy joined as
well what's up cozy um yeah thanks for thanks for joining brother um yeah dude i think that's that's
that's a good question um there's definitely gonna be some some interesting and hilarious
markets on space um i think initially we're going to keep it
to just the most popular,
the most interesting markets
that we think everybody will want to trade on.
Things that are really trending topics
at the stage that it goes live.
And then, yeah, we're definitely going to test the waters
with some more niche, like hilarious markets
about whatever topics, Barry, you can
just send us, you know. We did initially look at even allowing the community to create their own
markets. But I think at an early stage, I think this just risks your platform just getting full
of very random, but too niche markets that people might not be interested in.
You know, we didn't want people opening up space.
And the first thing they see is like, yeah, will Barry ever stop scrolling bikini pictures on Twitter?
It's interesting for you and I, but for some people that don't know Barry,
might be less excited by that and go, oh, this platform doesn't have the best market.
So initially, we're definitely going have the best markets. So initially,
we're definitely going to control which markets that we do put live and make sure they are the most interesting, the most exciting, the most gripping that people are the most excited about
trading on. But then later, yeah, we definitely want to hit some more niche, funnier kind of
markets. I think, you know, our team, you know,
you might have picked up on it.
We, you know, we all like to have a good time.
You know, a lot of us have a,
I like to think a good sense of humor.
Some people might think it's a bit immature at times,
but yeah, we like to have a laugh.
We like to have a good time.
So we definitely want to make things funny,
cool and interesting. So we definitely want to make things funny, cool, and interesting.
So we'll make sure that this is portrayed in the markets that we choose as well.
Yeah, super important.
You know, curating that experience.
I think we've seen that over the past five or so years with both centralized exchanges and and perp dexes in terms of what assets
they pick up when they're hot you know we saw it with ftx i mean ftx um spf did it so well with
picking up the right um you know things that were hot and he would add markets for novel things that
people just were talking about you know that was hot on the timeline. And I think you and, you know, Rare and the rest of the team being so, you know, on it
and, you know, in and amongst the people with, you know, your fingers on the pulse, you know,
it gives you a great opportunity to make sure those fantastic markets are there, that we
have the right ones that that as you say,
you're building that kind of fun, enjoyable experience
that you're gamifying alongside,
that people just want to keep coming back to.
It's going to be a fun time.
Ace, is this space supposed to finish in six minutes?
Yeah, that was the original plan.
I think that's what we're aiming for at the moment.
Are you kind of worried because you wanted to dedicate a bit more time
to browsing bikini pictures on X?
This is eating into my Grok bikini time.
But I wanted to...
Hey, Grok, put in a bikini, please.
I'm going to do that.
Are you going to get a DM in a few minutes?
Dude, I can tell you're not even joking.
I know you're being dead serious.
I know you're being dead serious about this.
You will have seen on the Grok app,
you can do Imagine and make it into a video
so I can have you dancing as well.
Please put it to...
If you can put mysterious girl
peter andre in the background if you are going to do it just do it do it the right way do it
do it respectfully and responsibly exactly not not not too revealing of a bikini but before we go i
want i did want to just um you know talk about off or just recap because some people you know were here at the beginning
some people weren't on some of the upcoming milestones so the big one is in about a week's
time you've got a um some kind of spaces live stream um that's like uh people you know are
going to be excited about uh attending you're going to announce the time and date of that soon. So that's in about a week's time. And then your anticipation was TGE sometime this
month, right? They're the kind of two big things that you wanted to tell us about, right?
Yeah, exactly. I think, yeah, the live stream is going to be really fun. It's something
that I think is going to be very fresh, something that people might not have seen before, which we're really excited to share. The way we even do the small things is like the way we do everything. We really go all in and make a lot of effort to everything we put out there. We like to make sure it's top tier.
We like to make sure it's top tier.
You can see that on the public.into.space,
the public sale dApp.
It's got achievements that you unlock.
It's got little perks that you unlock.
It's got different tiers and points multiplier
and just keeps it exciting, keeps it gamified.
And all of this will be reflected
on the space platform as well.
We want to keep it interesting, fun, and exciting for people to trade.
So essentially, people will be very, very, I think, happy with what they see.
And we're very excited to roll out the product as well, which is going to be around the time of TGE.
which is going to be around the time of TGE.
I think that's going to be a big one.
I think that's going to be a big one.
And yeah, I think from our side,
people can expect to see some more sort of key partnerships
and integrations with very sort of cutting edge technologies
and protocols in the crypto space.
Additionally, our TGE, as well as as product live as well as the live stream um and of course
seeing the public sale uh go above 10 million um you know in in commitments i'm just going to call
it i think it's going to happen and i think that's going to be a big big milestone for us to hit
so yeah as we kind of uh up, yeah, I can see
actually some new people joining. Hey, OD, what's up, man? OD's here. Rob Woods, I think Cozy already
gave a shout out to. So yeah, thanks for joining, guys. And yeah, thanks to everyone, all of our
speakers. Thanks, Barry, for coming on and appreciate the banter as always.
I think you guys now understand
when I say he's like the funniest guy I know,
you can understand where it's coming from.
And thanks to Impossible Finance for joining.
Thanks to Function, Eric Stevens.
Good.
Appreciate you guys hopping on as speakers
and saying a few words
as well as upgrade from our community.
We didn't get to hear from Nato. I think you couldn't connect. But yeah, thank you very much
for everybody for joining. Thank you for everyone for the support. It's been completely overwhelming
for us. Just to reiterate, our public sale is still live. It's been extended slightly. There is the God's Gamble tier is closing in less than 24 hours.
And there'll be one final tier after that, which will be the final opportunity to get in before we head into TGE.
And you have to fight against everyone else on the market to get tokens, essentially.
So, yeah, obviously, allocation is not guaranteed.
Those that get, you know,
partially filled, you know, it's still going to be a win. Don't be too disheartened by
getting, you know, part or even most of your position refunded. It's, you know, we're trying
our best to get everybody in to have good distribution, you know, to get as many users on the platform.
So we want to, you know, encourage everyone to kind of participate, unlock all the benefits
that you'll get on the platform, essentially. So yeah, it's still live at public.inter.space.
Feel free to hop on there, watch us smash the 10 million milestone, which I think should happen
soon. And yeah, it's been really great,
like the support from everybody. So thanks again so much for everybody that joined as speakers,
to everybody that joined as listeners, for some of our partners for joining, you know, Moonpay
and some of the guys from Pith. Thank you joining guys and we'll see you guys very very soon for a very special live stream Thank you.
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