These days, I've seen many people saying 'The World Cup is another liquidity black hole in the cryptocurrency industry', and I can't help but laugh. I have also been deeply involved in the 2022 edition myself. At that time, BTC went from over 20000 to 16000, and many people blamed the World Cup, saying that everyone was watching the game and no one was trading. I also believed it at the time, until later I found out that the FTX Thunder happened 9 days before the opening ceremony - Cristiano Ronaldo was purely responsible. At that time, Polymarket's monthly transactions were only a few million US dollars, and fans who wanted to bet didn't even have decent on chain tools, so their money was naturally eaten up by traditional gambling companies. And for the 2026 edition, I've been looking at it these past two days and feel completely different. Before the start of the tournament, Polymarket World Cup champions predict that the market turnover has already surged to $1.8 billion; OneFootball pushes on chain odds directly to 600 million fans; Chainlink has become the official exclusive oracle for FIFA, and Kraken has also secured the position of the official encryption platform. The money didn't actually flow away, it was just firmly caught on the chain this time. I have also placed a few small bets on Polymarket these days and personally experienced the excitement of 'global fans playing together on the chain'. Previously, attention was taken away by football, but now it is football that brings attention back into the encrypted world. The spell is likely to break this time. It's not because Cristiano Ronaldo is gone, but because the encryption infrastructure has been completely replaced by a generation. What do you think? Will you participate in on chain prediction for this year's World Cup?