World XYZ Opens Solana Prediction Market to 1M-Person Waitlist, With Chainlink Powering Resolution

World XYZ, the Solana-based prediction market, opened its standalone platform at world.xyz on Wednesday to a waitlist of more than 1 million users, the company said.

• World XYZ, a fully onchain prediction market on Solana, went live at world.xyz on Wednesday with more than 1 million users on its waitlist.
• Markets resolve automatically via Chainlink Data Streams and the Chainlink Runtime Environment, rather than through human panels or token-holder votes.
• Contracts settle in CASH, Phantom’s dollar-backed stablecoin, and no brokerage account or exchange registration is required.

The launch slate covers every NFL regular-season game, seven soccer leagues, Formula 1, the 2026 midterms and the Federal Reserve’s next decision. World XYZ said it has featured more than 150,000 markets spanning sports, crypto, politics, finance, economics and culture since going live inside the Phantom wallet in July.

Every market is a pair of binary “yes” and “no” contracts priced between $0 and $1 based on demand. Payouts settle in CASH, the dollar-backed stablecoin issued by Phantom. The platform is self-custodial and requires no brokerage account or exchange registration.

The pitch to traders is speed of resolution. Rather than relying on a human panel or a token-holder vote to decide how an event ended, World XYZ uses Chainlink Data Streams and the Chainlink Runtime Environment (CRE) to resolve a market the moment a game ends or a stock closes. The companies say that helps eliminate the manual interventions and lengthy dispute windows found in legacy oracle setups and lets capital re-enter new markets faster.

“World’s rapid growth and 1 million user waitlist reflects the massive demand for next-generation prediction markets on Solana,” Johann Eid, chief business officer at Chainlink Labs, said in a statement. “Chainlink is powering this growth with the high-speed data and infrastructure World needs for reliable, immediate market resolutions, allowing them to scale while preserving the integrity of every outcome.”

The Solana Foundation framed the launch as the latest in a run of retail trading apps landing on the network. “We have seen a proliferation of retail trading apps on Solana this year,” said Ramzy Ali, the foundation’s head of DeFi. “World is the next in line, bringing an entirely new asset class to Solana and keeping 100% of liquidity onchain.”

Next up, according to the company, are equity up/down markets and commodity markets on gold, silver, oil, natural gas and compute, followed by weather markets covering the largest cities in the world.

Phantom, which says more than 20 million people use its app, notes that prediction market trading within the Phantom app is available only to users in certain jurisdictions. World XYZ did not disclose first-day volume, open interest or fees.