Mentat — blogDeep dives on prediction market design, zkTLS settlement, AI authoring pipelines, and Solana protocol engineering.https://mentat.cryptuon.com/Curators are the adversarial layer AI markets needhttps://mentat.cryptuon.com/blog/human-curation-loop/https://mentat.cryptuon.com/blog/human-curation-loop/Letting AI generate markets without human curation is a category error. Here is why the curator console is not a temporary scaffold — it is permanent infrastructure.Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTDesigning settlement logic for Solana prediction marketshttps://mentat.cryptuon.com/blog/solana-settlement-design/https://mentat.cryptuon.com/blog/solana-settlement-design/The MarketFactory and MarketSettlement programs are the smallest possible programs that do their job. Here is what's in them and why.Sat, 16 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTInside the Scout-Draft-Validator pipelinehttps://mentat.cryptuon.com/blog/scout-draft-validator/https://mentat.cryptuon.com/blog/scout-draft-validator/How Mentat's DSPy agent chain turns a one-line idea into a structured market specification — and what we learned tuning it.Sat, 02 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTMentat vs Azuro: liquidity primitives vs full-stack market protocolshttps://mentat.cryptuon.com/blog/mentat-vs-azuro/https://mentat.cryptuon.com/blog/mentat-vs-azuro/Azuro is a liquidity layer that powers on-chain bookmakers. Mentat is a vertically integrated prediction market protocol with cryptographic settlement. They occupy adjacent slots in the stack, not the same one.Sun, 19 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTWhere prediction markets are in 2026https://mentat.cryptuon.com/blog/prediction-markets-2026/https://mentat.cryptuon.com/blog/prediction-markets-2026/An honest snapshot of the prediction market industry after the 2024 cycle, Kalshi's CFTC win, and the slow arrival of cryptographic settlement primitives.Sun, 12 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTMentat vs Polymarket: cryptographic settlement vs corporate dispute deskshttps://mentat.cryptuon.com/blog/mentat-vs-polymarket/https://mentat.cryptuon.com/blog/mentat-vs-polymarket/Polymarket has the deepest USD liquidity in prediction markets and a centralized arbiter when settlement gets contested. Mentat replaces both the oracle and the desk.Sat, 04 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTWhy prediction markets need zkTLS, not oracleshttps://mentat.cryptuon.com/blog/zktls-versus-oracles/https://mentat.cryptuon.com/blog/zktls-versus-oracles/Oracle networks were a 2017 answer to a problem zkTLS proofs solve more directly in 2026. Here's the architectural argument for cryptographic settlement.Sun, 22 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT