We had Augur in 2017, well before prediction markets even worked as a concept.

...was excited about and thought would be one of the first to really take off, with early projects like Augur...

No project is more emblematic of this period than Augur....In Ethereum’s first ICO, Augur raised $5.5M to build the world’s first decentralized prediction market...Like the majority of ICOs that succeeded it, Augur has become a symbol of crypto’s transformative potential...Augur targeted sports, and has never been able to build meaningful liquidity.

The prediction market has failed to gain traction writ large as competitors such as Augur have similarly...

This time last year, there were only 4 DeFi projects in the top 100 – (Maker, 0x, Augur, and Ren).