>Blockchains are often criticized for being speculative toys and not doing anything meaningful except for self->referential games (tokens, with yield farming, w

>Blockchains are often criticized for being speculative toys and not doing anything meaningful except for self->referential games (tokens, with yield farming, whose returns are powered by... the launch of other tokens). There >are certainly exceptions that the critics fail to recognize; I personally have benefited from ENS and even from >using ETH for payments on several occasions where all credit card options failed. But over the last few months, >it seems like we have seen a rapid burst in Ethereum applications being concretely useful for people and >interacting with the real world, and prediction markets are a key example of this. Was hunting this week for real-world use cases for blockchains, this is one to add to the list I feel.