World Goes Live as The Solana Prediction Market

@World_xyz has officially launched as a @Solana-native, self-custodial prediction market, integrating directly into the @Phantom mobile and desktop applications. The debut marks a notable shift in how Phantom's prediction market infrastructure operates, replacing a previous setup that routed trades through a centralized intermediary.

A Direct, On-Chain Experience for 20 Million Users

The platform gives Phantom's 20M+ user base access to binary contracts on $BTC price action and the 2026 FIFA Men's World Cup, all without moving funds to centralized wrappers. Phantom's own disclosure describes World as "a non-custodial prediction markets protocol" that "provides order routing to liquidity providers on the Solana blockchain."

When a user opens a prediction market position through Phantom, that position is represented as an SPL token, a standard Solana token, that settles on-chain. Each contract is priced between $0 and $1 based on implied probability. Every position uses $CASH as the primary settlement stablecoin, enabling instant, automatic redemptions once a market concludes.

The automatic settlement is a material improvement over how Phantom's prediction markets previously worked. Before June 1, the infrastructure was provided by DFlow, operating through a Kalshi integration, where expired positions required manual redemption. Under World, payouts are redeemed automatically when an event ends.

Chainlink Replaces Slow, Human-Governed Oracle Resolution

The oracle layer is a defining element of the architecture. World's backend relies on @Chainlink Data Streams and the Chainlink Runtime Environment (CRE) to resolve markets without manual intervention. The CRE provides developers the workflow execution environment required to repeatedly establish, resolve, and settle markets continuously, even on a minute-by-minute basis, all without manual intervention.

Chainlink's approach to prediction market resolutions significantly reduces payout times, often cutting them from one to two hours with legacy providers to under five minutes. Many prediction markets still rely on human-operated optimistic oracles, where someone proposes an outcome that is accepted as true unless another participant disputes it within a set time window. If no one objects, the proposed result stands and payouts are distributed accordingly. World's integration with Chainlink is designed to remove that dependency entirely.

The timing aligns with broader momentum around on-chain event markets. Monthly prediction market volume grew from $1.2 billion in early 2025 to over $20 billion in January 2026, with more than 840,000 unique wallets now participating every month. With the FIFA World Cup underway and $BTC volatility keeping crypto price markets active, World is entering a high-demand window for the product it is offering.

Sources:
Solana Compass: Phantom's Disclosure Names World Prediction Markets as Infrastructure Provider
Phantom Help Center: Trade Prediction Markets in Phantom
Chainlink Blog: The DeFi Moment for Prediction Markets