Chainlink Is Powering World's Solana Prediction Markets

@World_xyz has officially opened its standalone prediction market platform to a waitlist of more than 1 million users, positioning itself as a fully on-chain venue for event-driven trading on the @Solana blockchain.

How the Platform Works

The platform is accessible at world.xyz and directly inside the @Phantom wallet on iOS, Android, and desktop. It uses a non-custodial design, meaning user funds remain in their own Solana wallets and move only when a trader chooses to enter a market. Positions are held as standard Solana SPL tokens and can be managed like any other on-chain asset.

Settlement runs through @Chainlink Data Streams and the Chainlink Runtime Environment (CRE), which together feed verified price data and resolve outcomes with minimal human involvement. According to Chainlink, this infrastructure compresses resolution times from the typical 1 to 2 hours seen with legacy providers to under five minutes in many cases. Winning positions redeem automatically in $CASH, @Phantom's stablecoin, keeping 100% of liquidity on-chain.

The CRE handles the automation layer, coordinating the multi-stage workflows needed to continuously launch and settle markets based on deterministic data, without requiring manual intervention from a resolution committee.

Markets and Competitive Context

At launch, World offered binary "yes/no" contracts covering short-duration Bitcoin price movements and outcomes from the 2026 FIFA Men's World Cup. The platform plans to expand into sports, politics, commodities, and weather markets in the weeks ahead.

The launch places World in direct competition with established platforms such as Polymarket and Kalshi. Chainlink already powers Polymarket's 5-minute and 15-minute crypto markets, which have processed over $7 billion in trading volume, underscoring the scale that automated oracle infrastructure can support. The broader prediction market category has grown from roughly $1.2 billion in monthly volume in early 2025 to over $20 billion by January 2026, according to Crypto Briefing.

Johann Eid, Chief Business Officer at Chainlink Labs, said the integration marks "a major milestone" in the industry's shift away from human-driven legacy oracle solutions toward decentralised infrastructure that can scale prediction markets to trillions in volume.

Sources:
CoinDesk: World unveiled as fully onchain prediction market on Solana
Crypto Briefing: Chainlink reduces prediction market settlement times from hours to minutes
Chainlink: The DeFi Moment for Prediction Markets