“OpenAI CDS... there’s no CDS. So effectively an OpenAI CDS is you and your prediction markets.”
Money Stuff: The Podcast · Jeremy Maletz
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What was described
Proposed using prediction-market contracts as a synthetic CDS to hedge OpenAI credit risk for data-center owners
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