Vitalik: The reason why Polymarket is unique is because it is suitable for solving actual existing social problems

Vitalik Buterin posted on X saying, "Polymarket is unique because its growth period coincides with actual social problems that it can help solve (in 2024, there was a huge distrust of partisan media in the United States and other places).

What specific large-scale social problems are or will soon be suitable for cryptographic technology to help solve? (In fact, we hope to find situations involving the collapse of centralized institutions, being untrusted or widely considered harmful, and having a great demand to bypass them)."