Meta staff✴ began testing an application in development for forecasting events – a step the company often resorts to before the public launch of a product. The Takes service is a kind of analogue of the popular Kalshi and Polymarket, but it also has differences.
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In the application, which is now called Takes, employees can bet on the outcome of certain events using cred points (short for credibility, that is, “reputation”). Unlike Kalshi and Polymarket, the Meta app✴ The current version does not allow betting with real money. If the prediction is correct, the user receives cred points, and if the prediction is incorrect, he loses them. The service is not yet available to a wide audience, and it is not clear whether it will be officially released.
The company regularly conducts internal testing of new applications, products and features, a process known as dogfooding. Not all developments successfully pass the testing stage, and their names and set of functions may change by the time they become widely available. Last Thursday, November 12, one of the questions in the Meta application✴ Takes was related to whether former Apple CEO Tim Cook would become the new head of Nvidia – then most participants bet that this would not happen. Another question was dedicated to who will win the next episode of the popular TV game “Jeopardy!” (analogous to the Russian “Own Game”).
CEO of Meta✴ Mark Zuckerberg previously instructed one of the company’s departments to develop a forecast market application – in the summer the project appeared as Arena. Zuckerberg himself has not publicly mentioned the app; It is known, however, that he discussed up to 50 new projects with Chief Product Officer Chris Cox.
The popularity of prediction markets is growing, especially among young people, whose attention Meta✴ strives to hold on. At the same time, the Kalshi and Polymarket money platforms faced lawsuits from American state authorities who consider their activities illegal gambling. The companies dispute those claims, citing federal regulation.
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