Author: momo, ChainCatcher
Recently, the popularity of the prediction market sector has surged, becoming a focal point of interest in both the crypto space and the compliant financial market. Following Polymarket's acquisition of up to $2 billion in funding from ICE, the parent company of the New York Stock Exchange, which skyrocketed its post-investment valuation to $9 billion, another compliant prediction platform, Kalshi, has also announced the completion of a $300 million funding round. According to Bloomberg, Kalshi is in talks with several venture capital firms, and its valuation is expected to exceed $10 billion.
Currently, both Polymarket and Kalshi have not conducted their Token Generation Events (TGE), making them two hot projects that the crypto community is keenly focusing on for potential interaction opportunities. In addition, a number of earlier-stage prediction market projects have also begun to attract attention. This article will provide a brief overview of these emerging projects worth noting.
Opinion
Opinion (formerly known as O.LAB) is a prediction market supported by YZi Labs. In March, it announced a $5 million seed funding round, led by YZi Labs, with participation from Amber Group, Manifold Trading, echo, and Animoca Ventures. Prior to this, YZi Labs had also invested in a previous round.
The Opinion product matrix includes a decentralized prediction market, a dynamic opinion market, and an AI oracle. It recently announced that its mainnet will soon launch on the BNB Chain and will introduce a points system.
Ventuals
Ventuals is deployed on Hyperliquid (HIP-3 standard) and focuses on the Pre-IPO perpetual futures market, allowing users to long/short the valuations of unlisted companies (such as OpenAI and SpaceX) using USDC. The platform seamlessly integrates on-chain valuation data and the Privy wallet, addressing liquidity and speed issues in traditional prediction markets.
Ventuals has launched its testnet and plans to go live with its mainnet and TGE in Q4 2025.
Recommended reading: “Paradigm Incubation, Ventuals Attempts to Bridge the 'Last Mile' of Private Equity On-Chain Trading | CryptoSeed”
TradeFox
TradeFox (formerly factCheck) was incubated by AllianceDAO and initially focused on creating a news fact-checking version of Polymarket, allowing users to bet on the truthfulness of past events. However, it later transformed into a prediction market aggregator, focusing on integrating decentralized prediction markets (such as Polymarket, Kalshi, and Limitless) into a seamless trading terminal, allowing users to trade on real-world events (such as political elections, sports events, and crypto price fluctuations) with leverage. The trading interface is very similar to Hyperliquid.
TradeFox is currently in the early testing phase.
Melee
Melee is a prediction market on Solana, positioned as "Viral Markets," allowing users to create fact or opinion markets (such as pop culture and sports) without permission. Its creator economy model offers a 20% share of transaction fees, rewarding early accurate predictors without the need for traditional market makers. The platform enhances user engagement through social integration (such as one-click sharing on X/Discord).
It has completed a $3.5 million pre-seed funding round, led by Variant, with participation from DBA and several angel investors, including Meltem Demirors, Chief Strategy Officer of CoinShares, Anatoly Yakovenko, co-founder of Solana Labs, and Web3 investor Santiago Roel Santos.
Melee is currently in internal testing and requires an invitation code.
Recommended reading: “Understanding the Newcomer in Prediction Markets: Melee, Focused on Socialization and Deep Integration with the Creator Economy”
Myriad
Myriad is incubated by DASTAN, the parent company of Decrypt and Rug Radio, and seamlessly integrates blockchain-based prediction markets into news and social media pages like Twitter, YouTube, and Decrypt through a browser extension. Users can conveniently participate in predictions using USDC or platform points while browsing content, achieving "one-click ordering." Its prediction topics cover a wide range, including cryptocurrency, politics, sports, and culture. The platform is built on blockchains such as Abstract, Linea, and Celo.
Myriad is expected to conduct its TGE this year and is currently in the Pre-TGE points activity phase, where users can earn points by participating in social tasks and prediction markets.
The Clearing Company
The Clearing Company was founded by Toni Gemayel, who previously served as the growth lead at Kalshi and Polymarket. Its goal is to merge the openness of decentralization with the credibility of compliant regulation, creating a new generation of prediction markets that can be accepted by retail investors and favored by regulators.
In August of this year, The Clearing Company announced the completion of a $15 million seed funding round, led by USV, with participation from well-known institutions such as Coinbase Ventures.
The Clearing Company is still in the early development stage.
Recommended reading: “The Clearing Company Emerges, Are the 'Big Three' of Prediction Markets Here?”
Buzzing
Buzzing aims to become a personalized prediction market tailored to individual users. By reducing creation costs to zero, achieving unlimited supply, and utilizing algorithmic recommendations to drive daily discovery, Buzzing transforms prediction markets from being "hit-driven" to "mechanism-driven."
Buzzing recently launched its testnet on Fluent, and the platform has opened a playground (testing environment) where users can simulate using a free fUSD faucet.
Buzzing co-founder Luke has previously served as a product manager at Alibaba and Cobo.
Noise
Unlike Polymarket, which focuses on binary betting on event outcomes, Noise allows users to engage in leveraged trading on specific events, built on MegaETH, aiming to capture the "noise" of the crypto community and convert it into an on-chain market.
Noise is currently in the early testing phase.
Rumour
Rumour, developed by the AltLayer team, focuses on transforming "rumors" within the crypto community into tradable assets, allowing users to bet on unconfirmed rumors (such as exchange listings, partnerships, and narrative shifts).
Rumour is currently in the early development stage.
worm.wtf
worm.wtf is a prediction market within the Solana ecosystem, which recently announced the launch of its mainnet. It supports AIGC, allowing users to simply input prompts, and the platform can help users instantly generate prediction markets.
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