Two crypto prediction-market platforms are racing for World Cup 2026 betting volume, and both are settling their markets on Chainlink. ADI Predictstreet, FIFA’s first-ever official prediction partner, adopted Chainlink as its exclusive oracle on June 9, while challenger Myriad—backed by Tom Lee and ConsenSys—did the same and launched a $100,000 trading contest. The tournament’s opening round kicks off in two days.
FIFA’s Official Partner Picks Chainlink
ADI Predictstreet, which FIFA named the first-ever Official Prediction Market Partner of the 2026 World Cup under a multi-year deal, announced that it adopted Chainlink as its exclusive oracle infrastructure.
The platform uses the Chainlink Runtime Environment (CRE) to automate market creation, resolution, and settlement using official FIFA data, targeting accurate outcomes and near-instant payouts across all 104 matches for a global audience the companies estimate at more than 6 billion fans. Built on Abu Dhabi’s ADI Chain — which uses ZKsync’s Airbender zero-knowledge tech and has been audited by OpenZeppelin and Hacken — and operating under a Gibraltar license, Predictstreet is positioning itself as the institutionally credible, officially sanctioned home for World Cup betting.
Chainlink Labs Chief Business Officer Johann Eid framed it as orchestration that lets markets “settle with high-quality data and lead to fair outcomes and fast payouts.”
A Tom Lee-Backed Challenger Makes Its Move
Myriad isn’t waiting for the official partner to take the field. The platform separately adopted Chainlink to resolve its own World Cup markets — pairing the oracle with sports-data partner 55 Tech — and rolled out a $100,000 prediction contest spanning more than 75 multi-binary markets covering every match. The top three traders take $20,000, $10,000, and $5,000, with another $10,000 split across the leaderboard and a $5,000 weekly pool for top makers.
Myriad co-founder and COO Ilan Hazan pitched the appeal directly that traders want outcomes they can trust the moment the whistle blows. The push caps a busy stretch for Myriad, which closed a seed round in March with backers including MoonPay Ventures, Auros, EVG, Verda Ventures, and Fundstrat’s Tom Lee, alongside earlier investors ConsenSys and HashKey Capital, as it builds toward a stated goal of embedding itself as a protocol on BNB Chain.
Chainlink Is the Common Rail
The notable subplot is that whichever platform wins fans, Chainlink wins the infrastructure. The same oracle now underpins the official FIFA partner and its challenger — and it’s the same provider Polymarket adopted in September 2025 to power 15-minute markets with automated settlement. Across the sector, the manual, vote-based resolution that has historically settled prediction markets is being replaced by oracle-driven automation, and Chainlink is positioning its CRE as the default settlement layer for the category.
Why the World Cup Is the Prize
The land grab makes sense against the numbers. The 2026 World Cup spans 48 teams, 104 matches, and 16 host cities across the US, Canada, and Mexico, with FIFA reporting ticket demand already past 150 million requests. For prediction markets — a sector where Polymarket and Kalshi have drawn multi-billion-dollar valuations — a six-billion-fan event is the single biggest opportunity to convert casual sports fans into repeat traders.
The competitive edge each platform is selling is the same: faster, tamper-proof settlement that pays winners the moment a match ends, fixing the slow resolutions and outcome disputes that have eroded trust on legacy venues. With kickoff two days out, the race is less about who lists the markets than who fans actually trust to settle them.
