Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin says he’s growing uneasy about the direction prediction markets are taking, warning that platforms were heading towards becoming ‘corposlop.’ “Recently I have been starting to worry about the state of prediction markets, in their current form,” Buterin wrote on X. He pointed out that the sector has matured in visible ways. Trading volumes are now large enough that “you can make meaningful bets and have a full-time job as a trader,” and these markets can serve as a helpful complement to traditional media. But he believes that progress has come with a cost. In his view, platforms are drifting toward what he called an unhealthy “product market fit.” Rather than focusing on surfacing useful long-term insights, many have centered their offerings on “short-term cryptocurrency price bets, sports betting, and other similar things that have dopamine value but not any kind of long-term fulfillment or societal information value.”  “My guess is that teams feel motivated to capitulate to these things because they bring in large revenue during a bear market where people …