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Forum

Forum

Founded by Owen Botkin

The first regulated exchange to trade on attention.

Pricing model

Free Trial

Rating

★ Mixed Reviews

Time to value

Quick Setup (< 1 hour)

You can use Forum to trade regulated assets that track online attention and engagement across social media, search, and streaming platforms. The exchange converts cultural relevance and popularity signals into tradeable indices. You can take long or short positions on movies, artists, games, brands, topics, or categories based on their attention levels. Forum measures engagement data from Reddit, Google, X, and other platforms to create clear indices that let you profit from your understanding of what the world cares about.

What Forum does

Monitor engagement metrics across multiple platformsExecute long and short positions on attention trendsTrack real-time relevance and volume changesManage exposure across different cultural categoriesAnalyze Reddit, Google, and X engagement dataSet up automated trading based on attention thresholdsResearch emerging trends before they peakCalculate risk-adjusted returns on cultural investmentsTrade assets based on online engagement metricsTrack attention across search, social, and streamingTake long or short positions on cultural trendsReal-time relevance and volume indicatorsRegulated exchange for attention tradingY Combinator backed trading platformBeta access to attention marketsLive tracking of viral content performance

Pricing breakdown

Pricing model: Free trial

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