Source: https://x.com/world_xyz/status/2072311111638987054
millions wondered "what is world xyz?"
world is the @solana prediction market
world is live in @phantom with @chainlink as oracle infra
world is how the world trades what happens next
world is just getting started
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Source: https://x.com/world_xyz/status/2072306098837635377
World Launches as the Solana Prediction Market
This morning, we are excited to announce that World is live, bringing crypto and World Cup prediction markets to
@Solana — available to trade in @Phantom with @Chainlink as primary oracle infrastructure.
Full story by @CoinDesk from @FranciscoMemor:
NEW YORK, July 1, 2026 – World launches today as the Solana-native, fully onchain prediction market. World is live in Phantom with market resolution and data powered by Chainlink.
World opens with markets across crypto prices and the 2026 FIFA Men's World Cup, giving anyone with a Solana wallet the ability to predict outcomes on events that matter most, from Bitcoin's next move to who lifts the trophy.
Most prediction markets have historically relied on centralized infrastructure, requiring users to move funds off-chain, trust opaque systems, and navigate friction at every step. World eliminates that. Every market, every position, and every settlement happens onchain.
Users interact with real Solana liquidity, not a custodial wrapper. Funds never leave their wallets until they choose to participate in a market. The result is a prediction market that operates with the transparency and finality of the blockchain itself.
At launch, World offers markets on crypto prices, including short-duration Bitcoin up/down markets and international football, with the 2026 FIFA Men's World Cup providing the first major real-world event slate. Additional markets across crypto, sports, geopolitics, and macroeconomics are planned in the weeks following launch.
“Prediction markets are one of the most powerful applications you can build on a high-performance blockchain,” said Pedro Miranda (u/Pedromiranda), Head of Consumer, Solana Foundation. “World is designed to show what Solana makes possible: real-time markets, onchain settlement, and a user experience that meets people where they are.”
By launching inside Phantom, the most widely used wallet in Solana, World is immediately accessible to tens of millions of active users without requiring a separate app download or additional wallet setup. Users open Phantom, navigate to prediction markets, access the World integration, and begin participating in trades in seconds. World uses $CASH as its settlement stablecoin, enabling fast, low-cost, automatic redemptions of winning positions natively on Solana.
"Prediction markets thrive on near-instant, low cost settlement, and that's what CASH enables for World. We're excited to see prediction markets grow on Solana, bringing dynamic markets to millions of users fully onchain," said Will McComb (@willums_), Product Manager, Money Movement at Phantom.
The Phantom integration is the first of multiple frontend distribution partnerships World is activating across both the traditional fintech and crypto ecosystems throughout July.
On the backend, World has partnered with Chainlink to overcome legacy prediction market oracle solutions, which create slow human-controlled resolutions and uncertain outcomes. Via Chainlink Data Streams and the Chainlink Runtime Environment (CRE), World gains high-speed data and can deliver immediate resolution to power its advanced, Solana-native markets.
“We’re excited to see the premier prediction market on Solana adopt Chainlink as its primary oracle infrastructure. World’s integration of Chainlink is a major milestone in the broader industry trend of leading prediction markets moving away from human-driven legacy oracle solutions, to advanced decentralized oracle infrastructure that unlocks immediate market resolutions and positions the space to scale to trillions in volume.” — Johann Eid (@EidJohann), Chief Business Officer, Chainlink Labs.
World is available now at world.xyz and inside Phantom on iOS, Android, and desktop.
About World
World is Solana's native, fully onchain platform for self-custodial prediction market trading. The platform delivers real-time onchain performance, with fast routing, near-zero revert rates, instant settlement, and automatic redemption. Market coverage spans crypto price predictions and is expanding rapidly into sports, politics, and culture. World is how the world trades what happens next. Learn more at world.xyz.
About Phantom
Phantom is on a mission to connect the world to the freedom of open markets. Phantom has a community of more than 20 million people who use it to move, manage, and own their money on the internet. Built on self-custody, Phantom gives anyone one app to control their assets and trade markets that never close, from tokens and perpetuals to prediction markets (only available to users in certain jurisdictions). Through its in-app money suite and CASH, the first stablecoin built on Bridge and Stripe's Open Issuance platform, Phantom turns crypto rails into everyday money that always stays under your control. For more information, visit phantom.com.
About Chainlink
Chainlink is the industry-standard oracle platform bringing the capital markets onchain and the market leader powering the majority of DeFi. The Chainlink stack provides the essential data, interoperability, compliance, and privacy standards needed to power advanced blockchain use cases for institutional tokenized assets, lending, payments, stablecoins, and more. Since inventing decentralized oracle networks, Chainlink has enabled tens of trillions in transaction value and now secures the vast majority of DeFi.
Many of the world’s largest financial services institutions have also adopted Chainlink’s standards and infrastructure, including Swift, Euroclear, Mastercard, Fidelity International, UBS, S&P Dow Jones Indices, FTSE Russell, WisdomTree, ANZ, and top protocols such as Aave, Polymarket, Lido, Lighter, and many others. Chainlink leverages a novel fee model where offchain and onchain revenue from enterprise adoption is converted to LINK tokens and stored in a strategic Chainlink Reserve. Learn more at chain.link.
