People crave a new online home for high-signal conversation: where they can quickly see arguments that withstand public scrutiny, understand differing, well-argued views, and ensure their own voice is heard.
As a competitive binary format, fairly judged debates can deliver what social media and its algorithms cannot: healthy discourse. It takes place between two teams scoring points for arguments, following clear rules, creating an experience that is fun like a game, yet substantial.
Contro combines two new key technologies:
- An AI-based judgment system that listens to every comment and reply, extracts and fact-checks the substance, and scores each contribution, surpassing human jurors in fairness and scalability.
- In the arena of Contro, every user-created debate is also an ultra-fair and extraction-free GLOB-powered p2p prediction market forecasting the verdict, with debaters taking positions for their side.
Intertwining markets and debate-based resolution sets incentives to share clear reasoning and engage with opposing views. It fosters sportsmanship instead of polarization. In addition, it creates endless opportunities for traders to speculate; currently, the most intriguing prediction markets (for a wider audience) are often those that require debate for resolution—where subjective opinion, wisdom and morals drive participants rather than the wish to forecast external events that are hard to predict.
While Contro’s flagship app is an open arena for debates with various skin-in-the-game effects, it can also be seen more technically as a platform for prediction markets explicitly allowing for subjective topics, fused with a built-in intersubjective oracle that consists of the participants discussing while the time counts down and the judge is scoring the contributions. Scored points impact the market odds and thus allow users to capitalize on insight, reasoning and good behavior.
Contro’s debate verdict markets differ from traditional markets in that they lead to information exchange beyond pure price signals. At Contro, we believe this can unlock the best possible collective intelligence.
People crave a new online home for high-signal conversation: where they can quickly see arguments that withstand public scrutiny, understand differing, well-argued views, and ensure their own voice is heard.
As a competitive binary format, fairly judged debates can deliver what social media and its algorithms cannot: healthy discourse. It takes place between two teams scoring points for arguments, following clear rules, creating an experience that is fun like a game, yet substantial.
Contro combines two new key technologies:
- An AI-based judgment system that listens to every comment and reply, extracts and fact-checks the substance, and scores each contribution, surpassing human jurors in fairness and scalability.
- In the arena of Contro, every user-created debate is also an ultra-fair and extraction-free GLOB-powered p2p prediction market forecasting the verdict, with debaters taking positions for their side.
Intertwining markets and debate-based resolution sets incentives to share clear reasoning and engage with opposing views. It fosters sportsmanship instead of polarization. In addition, it creates endless opportunities for traders to speculate; currently, the most intriguing prediction markets (for a wider audience) are often those that require debate for resolution—where subjective opinion, wisdom and morals drive participants rather than the wish to forecast external events that are hard to predict.
While Contro’s flagship app is an open arena for debates with various skin-in-the-game effects, it can also be seen more technically as a platform for prediction markets explicitly allowing for subjective topics, fused with a built-in intersubjective oracle that consists of the participants discussing while the time counts down and the judge is scoring the contributions. Scored points impact the market odds and thus allow users to capitalize on insight, reasoning and good behavior.
Contro’s debate verdict markets differ from traditional markets in that they lead to information exchange beyond pure price signals. At Contro, we believe this can unlock the best possible collective intelligence.
