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Unleashing the Power of Human Intelligence: Signals Beta Launch

The Institution for a Global Society (IGS) has partnered with Tools for Humanity (TFH) to launch a beta version of a revolutionary predictive market platform named Signals. Officially starting on March 16, 2026, this platform aims to harness collective human intelligence to improve decision-making within organizations. Participants, including businesses and individuals, can now join this new venture that utilizes innovative verification methods to ensure genuine human participation.

What is Signals?

Signals is a predictive market platform that utilizes smart contract wallets created within the application. By integrating World ID, a verification system provided by TFH, the platform guarantees that each participant is a unique and authentic individual. This eliminates fraudulent participation from bots and multiple accounts and ensures reliable decision-making based on genuine human insight.

Background: Understanding the Need for Predictive Markets

IGS has previously developed tools that visualize competencies and non-cognitive skills for organizations such as businesses, schools, and public sectors. This endeavor has revealed the challenges faced by organizations when making accurate decisions in an increasingly complex social environment. The traditional decision-making process has three major structural issues:
1. Data quality breakdown: The presence of participants who fail to read questions properly in online surveys compromises data reliability.
2. Groupthink in organizations: Dominant voices in meetings drown out valuable insights from less vocal members.
3. Invisibility of predictive skills: The absence of measurable tools to gauge an individual's ability to forecast future outcomes significantly hinders recruitment and evaluation processes.

Signals seeks to address these issues holistically, introducing a garnering platform where participants can contribute reliable insights underpinned by a robust authentication mechanism.

Market Trends and Opportunities

The need for accurate decision-making is universal across various sectors. HR departments grapple with evaluating candidates' judgment capabilities, while financial institutions face challenges in reflecting decentralized knowledge into decision-making processes. The marketing sector continually seeks ways to leverage collective insights to swiftly respond to market changes. Predictive markets have gained traction in the Western world and are now finding a foothold in Japan, signaling a growing thirst for this decision-making infrastructure.

Distinct Features of Signals

Signals differentiates itself from typical predictive markets and surveys through its commitment to participant authenticity. Key unique features include:

• - World ID Integration: Ensuring participant authenticity through a robust verification system, excluding fraudulent accounts.
• - Privacy Protection: Allowing anonymous participation through zero-knowledge proofs without sharing personal information with IGS.
• - Incentive Design: Creating a framework that encourages accurate prediction through compliance with local regulations, naturally eliminating unfounded predictions and enhancing the overall precision of collective insights.

IGS has previously implemented predictive markets internally as a decision-making support tool within businesses. The current endeavor aims to test and scale these applications to broader societal uses, thus shifting from internal operations to impactful societal implementations.

Partner Collaborations

As part of the ecosystem surrounding the Signals platform, three companies have joined in pursuit of validating use cases concerning human capital, predictive judgment, and media and entertainment respectively:

• - MUFG Bank : Exploring the potential of utilizing predictive markets for talent evaluation in hiring processes.
• - Axis Consulting : Assessing the predictive capabilities of consultants to measure their insights on future events and the accuracy of those predictions.
• - Sky Perfect JSAT : Visualizing potential content hits and audience interest through predictive markets before a project's launch.

Looking Ahead: Portable Predictive Skills as Capital

IGS aims to expand Signals' functionalities, including the introduction of conditional markets for event-based forecasts. The future will also explore using Soulbound Tokens (SBT) to securely record individual predictive achievements on-chain, enhancing portability across recruitment and evaluation scenes.

In conclusion, the launch of Signals is not just about creating a predictive market; it's about laying down a foundation for a sustainable, trust-based collective wisdom framework that can adapt to emerging challenges. Staying at the forefront requires continuous development, and IGS is committed to leading this pivotal transformation in our approach to decision-making.