Vitalik believes that a technology driving the development of information finance in the next decade is AI, and prediction markets are just one use case of information finance. Information finance addresses the trust issues that actually exist among people, and now with scalable blockchains as the foundation, costs have significantly decreased. With artificial intelligence as a participant, the reliance on human involvement in information finance has been greatly improved.

PANews reported on November 9 that Vitalik published an article titled "From prediction markets to info finance". Vitalik believes that even though existing prediction markets are a very useful tool for the world, they are merely a use case of a broader category called "info finance", which has the potential to be better realized in social media, science, news, governance, and other areas. The next decade offers a unique opportunity for the following reasons:

Info finance addresses the trust issues that actually exist among people. A common concern of this era is the lack of knowledge (and worse, the lack of consensus), not knowing whom to trust in political, scientific, and business environments. Info finance applications can help to be part of the solution. Now, with scalable blockchains as the foundation. Until recently, the fees were too high to truly implement these ideas. Now the fees are not high anymore. AI as a participant. When info finance has to rely on human participation for each issue, it is relatively difficult to function effectively. AI greatly improves this situation, allowing for efficient markets even on small-scale issues. Many markets may have a combination of AI and human participants, especially when the number of specific issues suddenly increases from small to large.

Vitalik: One technology that will drive the development of information finance in the next decade is AI, and prediction markets are just one use case of information finance.