The future market will belong not only to human traders but also to AI agents capable of autonomously analyzing, deciding, and executing trades. Therefore, 1024EX’s long-term goal is not only to serve human users but also to build real-time financial infrastructure designed for AI agents.
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Prediction markets are emerging as a rapidly growing new form of trading in the cryptocurrency finance sector.
From sports events to election outcomes, from tech product launches to macroeconomic data, an increasing number of real-world events are being brought on-chain and priced, traded, and settled in a market-driven manner.
However, compared to more mature trading categories such as spot and futures, prediction markets are still in a relatively early stage. Currently, most prediction market products are centered around "Yes/No" outcome trading, with users primarily making directional bets on the result of a specific event. While this model enables the expression of opinions, it more closely resembles a judgment market rather than a fully-fledged trading market.
Under this context, 1024EX officially launches Leveraged Event Markets, introducing isolated margin, leveraged trading, and long/short mechanisms to event trading, advancing prediction markets from single-outcome trading toward more financially sophisticated event trading platforms.
1024 Founder Xavier Qin: Building Financial Infrastructure for the AI Agent Era
Xavier Qin, founder of 1024, graduated from Pennsylvania State University and has long been focused on artificial intelligence, financial technology, and programmatic financial infrastructure.
While in school, Xavier Qin began an AI-related startup and founded Agent2AI, continuously exploring the integration of AI agents, autonomous execution systems, and next-generation financial infrastructure.
In 2024, Xavier Qin founded 1024 and proposed a core insight:
Future software will increasingly serve AI agents, not just humans.
Based on this assessment, 1024 is building the next-generation financial infrastructure for the AI Agent era.
In addition to 1024EX, the team has launched 1024AI—a platform designed for everyday users to develop AI applications, quantitative strategies, and AI agents. With built-in Coding Agent and Online IDE, users without programming experience can simply describe their needs in natural language; the AI will automatically handle data retrieval, code generation, strategy backtesting, result analysis, continuous optimization, and finally deploy the project to the cloud for long-term operation.
Under this model, users can not only develop websites, AI tools, quantitative strategies, and AI agents through conversational interactions, but also deploy the generated projects for live operation, offering them for subscription or paid access to generate ongoing revenue.
In Xavier Qin's view:
The most important infrastructure of the future will not be AI itself, but rather how AI gains the ability to execute, make payments, and participate in markets.
1024EX is a vital component of this vision.
From "Betting on the Outcome" to "Trading Perspectives"
In the past, prediction markets primarily served as a mechanism for selecting outcomes.
Users select a direction around an event by purchasing Yes or No shares and then wait for the final settlement after the event concludes. This model allows users to express their views, but still has certain limitations in terms of trading experience.
First, traditional prediction markets typically require users to commit their full funds, resulting in relatively low capital efficiency and limiting users' ability to manage positions flexibly based on their judgments.
Second, some markets lack clear short-selling pathways. Users' judgments that "something will not happen" are often difficult to efficiently translate into tradable positions.
Third, traditional prediction markets have relatively simple risk control and margin mechanisms, lacking finer isolation and management between the position risk of a single market and the overall account risk.
In addition, the return structure under traditional models is relatively flat, making it difficult to align with the risk-reward requirements corresponding to high-confidence judgments.
For users seeking higher capital efficiency in event trading, a significant experience gap remains between traditional prediction markets and established trading markets.
1024EX aims to address exactly this issue:
Users don't just assess event outcomes—they can build, manage, and adjust trading positions based on those outcomes.
Leverage, Long/Short, and Isolated Margin: Entering the Position Management Phase of Event Trading
The core mechanisms of the 1024EX leveraged prediction market include leveraged trading, isolated margin, and long/short trading.
In terms of leverage, 1024EX currently supports up to 10x leverage for designated prediction markets. Users can establish larger position sizes based on margin, enhancing capital efficiency. For high-confidence directions, users can build more expressive positions with less capital; for directions under observation, they can participate in the market with lower capital commitment.
In terms of margin mechanism, 1024EX uses isolated margin mode. Each event market has its own independent margin account, and the profit or loss of one market does not automatically affect other positions. Users can participate in multiple event markets simultaneously, isolating risks between different events.
In terms of directional expression, 1024EX introduces a long/short mechanism. Users can establish long positions based on the event occurring or short positions based on the event not occurring. This enables bidirectional trading of the event outcome.
When leverage, isolated margin, and long/short mechanisms are combined, the outcome of an event is no longer merely a pending settlement decision but begins to qualify as a tradable position.
This means that the core experience of prediction markets is changing:
Users are no longer merely selecting an outcome; they are managing positions, configuring risk, and expressing trades around the event outcome.
The World Cup market is just the beginning.
Using the FIFA 2026 World Cup champion market as an example, users can establish trading positions based on whether a specific team wins or does not win.
On traditional prediction platforms, users typically need to directly purchase shares corresponding to the outcome and wait for final settlement. On 1024EX’s leveraged prediction market, users can use leverage on margin to open positions in the same direction, thereby improving capital efficiency.
For example, if a user predicts Portugal will win with a $10 principal stake, the potential profit in a traditional prediction market is approximately $126; on 1024EX, by opening a position in the same direction with up to 10x leverage, and without considering fees, slippage, funding rates, or liquidation risk, the theoretical profit exposure could increase to approximately $1,260.
However, while leverage increases potential returns, it also simultaneously increases risk. Users should manage their positions according to their individual risk tolerance and fully understand the potential losses and liquidation risks associated with margin trading.
For users, the real change is not just that the potential returns have increased, but that event outcomes can now be managed within a more comprehensive trading framework for the first time.
Users are no longer merely “betting on an outcome,” but can instead build manageable positions around events with defined risk parameters, leverage efficiency, and trading strategies.
The World Cup is merely the most easily understood application of this model; behind it lies a new form of the event trading market.
Prediction markets built on trading infrastructure
1024EX states that leveraged prediction markets are not an isolated feature, but are built upon its overall on-chain trading infrastructure.
Within this system, the on-chain matching engine handles order flow and price discovery; the trade execution system manages position opening, closing, and position management; the risk management and margin system continuously evaluates position health and triggers risk control mechanisms when necessary; and the on-chain settlement system completes final fund distribution after event outcomes are confirmed.
Event markets share the same account system, execution system, risk management system, and settlement system as spot and futures markets.
This means that event markets are no longer just lightweight tools for outcome selection, but are beginning to possess infrastructure capabilities approaching those of exchanges.
Once real-world events are integrated into on-chain transaction systems, they are no longer merely subjects of discussion—they can also become financialized market units that are priced, traded, and managed.
Not just predicting markets, but event financial markets.
Unlike some prediction platforms that emphasize information discovery and community expression, 1024EX treats event markets as a new asset class within its trading system.
In the design of 1024EX, event markets share the same matching, execution, risk control, and settlement systems. The difference lies in the fact that the tradable assets have expanded from traditional financial instruments to real-world events.
The goal of 1024EX is not merely to recreate a prediction market, but to integrate event outcomes into a full trading system, enabling users to trade market opportunities arising from real-world events as they would stocks, commodities, or crypto assets.
From this perspective, prediction markets are evolving from tools for judging outcomes into financial markets for trading events.
This is also the core significance behind 1024EX launching leveraged prediction markets:
Turn the outcome of an event into a tradable market position that enables ongoing trading and risk management.
Real-Time Finance for Agents and Humans
In Xavier Qin’s view, AI agents will become important participants in future financial markets.
The future market will belong not only to human traders but also to AI agents capable of autonomously analyzing, deciding, and executing trades. Therefore, 1024EX’s long-term goal is not only to serve human users but also to build real-time financial infrastructure designed for AI agents.
The team summarizes this vision as:
Real-Time Finance for Agents and Humans
Enable anyone, even any AI agent, to discover opportunities, express opinions, allocate risk, and participate in the market.
The World Cup is just the starting point of this model. In the future, macroeconomic data, interest rate decisions, employment figures, technology product launches, industry trends, political events, and on-chain ecosystem events all have the potential to become new event trading markets.
1024EX aims to build not just a prediction platform, but a market infrastructure that enables real-world events to be priced, traded, and managed for risk.
Points Program launches simultaneously
Along with the launch of leveraged prediction markets, 1024EX is also introducing the Points Program.
Users can earn points through trading, opening positions, participating in the market, and engaging with the platform. As a reward for early users’ long-term participation and contributions to the ecosystem, Points may be redeemed in the future for platform rewards, ecosystem benefits, event access, and other user perks.
For early participants, this means users can not only experience the next-generation event trading market from day one but also have the opportunity to grow alongside the platform’s ecosystem.
From the result, proceed to the tradable position.
From single-sided bets to structured long-short strategies.
1024EX is driving the prediction market from the era of outcome trading to the era of event financial markets.