Today in DeFi - Markets Beat Polls, ETH 2.0 Deposit Contract, and More
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Markets Beat Polls
In the wee-hours of the election night, it is looking as if prediction markets have thoroughly beaten polls in predicting election outcomes.
FiveThirtyEight, a prominent election forecasting site, predicted a relatively clear election outcome, based on polling data as well as statistical analysis.
On the other hand, yTrump and nTrump, two Augur-based election betting tokens, had a much closer outcome. yTrump, a token that expires to $1 if Trump wins, had an average win forecast of about 40% for Trump.
The prediction market outcome seems much more in line with the current results. While Trump is behind in electoral votes at the time of writing, he is leading in most swing states. At the moment, it would seem that the odds of Trump winning seem much closer to the 40% predicted by markets than the 10% predicted by FiveThirtyEight.
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ETH 2.0 Deposit Contract
The ETH 2.0 Deposit Contract seems to be live on Github. The deposit contract is the contract that accepts ETH onto ETH 2.0.
Official accounts, such as dannyryan, however, have not made any announcements yet. While it seems this is either the deposit contract or it is coming quite soon, you probably shouldnβt try to send funds at this point.
UMA Developer Mining
UMA is launching a developer mining program. 50,000 UMA will be given out weekly to developers, weighted by the TVL of their synthetic assets built on UMA. Similar to how liquidity mining rewards users who add liquidity to a protocol, developer mining rewards developers who increase the TVL of UMA Protocol by creating popular synthetic assets.
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