Mechanism design, prediction markets, and decentralized market infrastructure.
Hi, I'm Alan Wu. I'm interested in mechanism design in crypto, focusing on prediction markets, decentralized trading, and market structure.
I'm a protocol engineer at Uniswap Labs, where my work centers on market design and decentralized infrastructure. I write about how markets can be used beyond trading, as mechanisms for surfacing information and aligning incentives around real-world outcomes.
My recent writing explores how prediction markets function as public signals, hedging tools, and systems that make useful information easier to produce and act on.
How Prediction Markets Can Ascend argues that prediction market growth will come from becoming broadly useful — as public signals, hedging tools, and accountability mechanisms.
When Prediction Markets Need Stake explores why play-money prediction markets are surprisingly accurate, and under what conditions that accuracy breaks down.
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