On January 9, Vitalik Buterin wrote on X: "Polymarket is unique because its growth period coincides with an actual social problem and is suitable for helping to solve it (in 2024, there is a huge distrust of partisan media in the United States and elsewhere). What specific large-scale social problems are crypto technologies suited to help solve now or in the near future? (Actually, we want to look for situations that involve centralized institutions breaking down, not being trusted, or widely perceived as harmful, and there's a lot of demand to bypass them). "