Well our main objective is to run a profitable business. If we steal people's money, then we lose trust, and therefore lose customers. We are incentivized to provide an honest service, else we will not grow. The long-term vision is a private and anonymous polymarket but with sats and ecash, not FTX.

We also looked into how to do non-custodial prediction markets with DLCs, and we have a draft of a whitepaper detailing how to do LMSR over DLCs. The only issue is currently we need a transfer mechanism (or swap) for those DLCs, which doesn't yet exist in the spec. We could try to raise more money to hire people to do that, or we could just go with ecash (which already has a thriving community of developers).

The difficulty with DLCs also is that everything needs to be on-chain. Lightning based DLCs are a mega pain in the ass, we talked to 10101 guys about it. If everything is on-chain then anytime there are high fees, it would be more costly for people to place bets. Lightning solves this, but Lightning also precludes other technologies due to the complexity of operating a Lightning based service in the first place.

We want to guarantee payout reliability, as even typos in the lightning address can result in payment failure. That's why we want to abstract shares as ecash tokens, and enable people to save their shares as a file (or emailed to them), which can be uploaded later.