The Story of RealityPicks

Every revolution starts with someone who refuses to accept the status quo. For Laszlo Bihary — known across the decentralized web as 0xlaszlo — that refusal started over two decades ago, long before Ethereum existed, long before NFTs were a noun.

From the early days of the internet — building communities, shipping products, breaking things and rebuilding them better — Laszlo watched the world slowly wake up to the power of trustless systems. He was there when the first DAOs formed. He minted when minting meant something. He built when building meant nobody was watching.

After 20 years of shipping products across Web2 and Web3, contributing to guilds on Guild.xyz, participating in DAO governance on Snapshot and Tally, minting on Zora and BasePaint, and nurturing communities on Farcaster and Lens — one obsession remained: how do we make prediction markets fun, fair, and accessible to everyone?

That obsession became RealityPicks.

Reality TV is the world's most-watched entertainment format. Billions tune in weekly to scream at their screens — “She's getting eliminated!” “He's winning immunity!” “That alliance is doomed!” — yet there's never been a way to put real conviction behind those calls.

Until now. RealityPicks is the first decentralized prediction platform purpose-built for reality television. Not another generic betting platform. Not a fork of Polymarket with a TV skin. A ground-up, community-driven protocol designed around the drama, the twists, the tribal councils, the rose ceremonies.

We're building at the intersection of entertainment and decentralized finance — where every episode is a market, every prediction is a position, and every viewer becomes a player.

RealityPicks isn't built by a faceless corporation. It's built by a community of degens, dreamers, and reality TV addicts who believe the future of entertainment is participatory.

Our roots run deep in Web3's most vibrant communities. From Guild.xyz memberships to Farcaster channels, from Lens protocol conversations to DAO governance participation — the RealityPicks community was forged in the same decentralized fire that built the rest of the onchain world.

We believe in tribes. Season-based guilds where members compete together, share strategies, and earn collective rewards. Think of it as Survivor alliances — but for prediction markets. Every season, new guilds form, compete for the leaderboard crown, and dissolve only to reform stronger.

Our Discord is already home to hundreds of reality TV prediction enthusiasts. The guild system, powered by onchain reputation and $PICKS staking tiers, creates a meritocracy where skill and community loyalty are rewarded — not just capital.

At the heart of the ecosystem sits $PICKS — an ERC-20 token launched via Clanker on the Base network. Total supply: 1,000,000,000. No VC allocation. No insider pre-sale. Fair launch, community first.

45% flows directly into Uniswap V4 LP — the lifeblood of liquidity. 50% is vaulted for the team and community, unlocked on a transparent schedule. The remaining 5% is reserved for airdrop to early supporters who believed before launch.

The deflationary mechanics are built into the DNA: a portion of every 3% platform fee is used for buyback-and-burn, permanently reducing supply. Season Pass purchases burn tokens. Staking vaults lock supply while rewarding holders with boosted prediction multipliers up to 1.5x.

The game is elegantly simple. Connect your wallet. Pick a show. Make your prediction. If you're right, you earn points and climb the leaderboard. If you're wrong, you learn and come back harder.

But simplicity doesn't mean shallow. Dynamic odds adjust based on community predictions — early conviction gets better prices. Streak bonuses multiply your rewards for consecutive correct predictions. Risk Bets offer higher multipliers for harder calls. Immunity Jokers — limited per season — let you survive a wrong pick and still earn base points.

Every mechanic is designed to reward skill, consistency, and bold conviction. This isn't gambling — it's a skill-based prediction game where knowledge of the shows genuinely matters.

Laszlo Bihary has spent two decades at the frontier of technology and community. From early internet startups to Web3 protocols, his journey spans the entire evolution of the digital age.

Active on Farcaster as 0xlaszlo, on Lens as poker4me.lens, on X as laszloleonardo — verified across platforms. A quiet builder in a noisy space.

His wallet — 0xa820...4709 — tells a story that no resume can: years of minting, voting, staking, governing, and building across the decentralized web. Every transaction is a chapter. Every smart contract interaction is a paragraph in a story that led, inevitably, to RealityPicks.