Recently I stumbled upon 
@hivepredict
It's not every day that one finds a gem in Hive's ecosystem, but I think this one deserves more attention. https://hivepredict.app essentially is a betting platform similar to Polymarket on which we can bet on an outcome and place Hive as collateral. A simple idea, but as we have seen elsewhere it has a lot of potential.
Immediately upon using the site, it struck me how polished everything felt. Finally an app where everything works and the UI is streamlined.
Here is an example:
We can see all relevant information on the spot like, the question, the prize pool, the number of bettors, the current as well as the target price etc. To place a bet we simply have to click on which side we favor and enter the amount of Hive we are willing to bet. We can then directly see how much our winning would be and how much we would make a profit. In the graph we can also see how this market has evolved, displaying the chances on what betters think the outcome will be.
Creating a bet
It's also very easy to create a betting market. First, decide on the general topic (for now there are mostly sports and crypto bets). Then we can enter all of the details:
On page 2 we can decide on which token we want to use (Hive or HBD), the stake cap (how much total can be in the pool) and the opening bet (min. is 1 Hive).
After the market has been successfully created, we come back to the landing page we know from before. Since this bet was created last week, you will probably have guessed that I lost this bet since Hive didn't reach >= 6 cents.
However, I did win the oil bet. Over all it seems that there are quite a number of bets which are "easy" to win when one has a bit of background knowledge.
Conclusion
This app is polished, works flawlessly, is easy to use and it has a great use case. Quite frankly, I am not sure why it hasn't blown up more. But I will be creating some more markets - hope to see you there as well!
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