Markets for Public Goods | Devansh Mehta | ETHMumbai 2026

Instead of humans evaluating every project, create a market where traders bet on what those human evaluations would say. This talk shares lessons from using that model to distribute $350,000 to core Ethereum repositories, covering how we designed and ran the prediction markets, from market formats and base rate setting to liquidity seeding and final resolution. Follow Devansh on X: https://x.com/devanshmehta Follow ETHMumbai on X: https://x.com/ethmumbai ETHMumbai 2026 is the BEST Ethereum Conference & Hackathon hosted on 12th – 15th March 2026 in Mumbai.