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•Jesse Landry

TBD Raises $3M for NYC-Based Prediction Market Protocol

Signal cuts through noise. Always has. The difference now is the noise fights back. TBD just locked in $3M in seed capital to build something most of the internet forgot how to measure: real human...

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Signal cuts through noise. Always has. The difference now is the noise fights back. TBD just locked in $3M in seed capital to build something most of the internet forgot how to measure: real human sentiment. Not bot farms. Not AI-generated consensus. Not vibes dressed up as data. Real people, verified as real, casting real votes. Corey Miller, Co-Founder and CEO, and Taehoon Lee, Co-Founder, both alumni of dYdX, saw the same problem the rest of us pretend is manageable. If the inputs are synthetic, the outputs are fantasy. So they built a market where humanity is the moat.

CMT Digital and ParaFi co-led the round. Jump Crypto stepped in. Sam Lessin, General Partner at Slow Ventures, joined. Raj Gokal, Co-Founder of Solana. Mark Boiron, CEO of Polygon Labs. Evgeny Gaevoy, Founder of Wintermute. Antonio Juliano, Founder of dYdX. That is not a casual cap table. That is a room full of people who understand market structure, liquidity, and what happens when incentives are engineered correctly.

TBD runs on Solana and integrates World ID to ensure every participant is a uniquely verified human. During private beta, more than 19M votes were cast across 4K+ markets by over 225K verified participants. Read that again. 19M signals from actual humans. In a world drowning in synthetic content, that number feels almost rebellious.

Here is where it gets interesting. TBD does not just poll sentiment. It lets markets form around it. Polls feed prediction markets. Opinions meet price discovery. When belief has skin in the game, it sharpens. You do not just ask what people think. You see what they are willing to back. Capital markets have always priced risk. TBD is pricing conviction.

The lesson for founders is not simply that $3M closed. It is how. Corey Miller and Taehoon Lee brought credibility from dYdX, built in public, proved traction in beta, and aligned with infrastructure that matters. They did not pitch a trend. They demonstrated a working engine with volume, users, and a clear thesis: verified humanity is scarce and therefore valuable.

For investors, this is a bet that human signal becomes a premium asset class. For traders, it is a new arena where sentiment is not scraped, it is earned. For enterprises watching from the sidelines, ask yourself what clean, bot-resistant insight is worth when decisions carry 9 figures and reputations ride shotgun.

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