https://numer.ai is an entire hedge fund built around an anonymous ML prediction tournament. They solicit predictions, trade them, and reward the best performing ones. IIRC They’ve paid millions in prizes over the last few years.
They also recently introduced Numerai Signals, where they pay for the performance of actual training data. So you can make money providing datasets that perform well.
Personally I’m put off by the language used in the video.
Also
> Stake on your model to earn cryptocurrency
No thanks. I prefer dollars in my bank account.
Staking was introduced to reward actual market performance instead of performance on holdout data, and to prevent spam.
Cryptocurrency is the method of payment because it’s a global competition, and that’s the only way to pay everyone across countries. Originally rewards were in Bitcoin but switched to an ethereum token to facilitate staking.