[PRESS RELEASE – Panama City, Panama, June 4th, 2026]
After nearly $5 million in beta trading volume, Pred opens public access for the 2026 FIFA World Cup, with unique markets and fastest market resolution benchmarks.
Pred, a peer-to-peer sports trading exchange built on Base, opened public access today after a private beta that kept 86% of traders active week over week and pushed $5 million in notional volume through 300+ invited users.
Across 8 weeks, traders executed more than 100k trades on soccer markets, and 83% of them made repeat deposits.
Pred is a sports native exchange, designed for the speed of live sports. Traders match positions against one another through an on-chain order book. Trading settlement happens in 200 milliseconds, and markets resolve in 3 minutes, not hours. Positions are denominated in USDC, settled on-chain, and deposits and positions always earn native yield.
The release lands just in time for the opening match of the 2026 FIFA World Cup. Pred is building market depth around in-game events that general prediction platforms don’t carry: 15-minute markets that settle inside the run of play, 1UP and 2UP markets that close the moment a goal difference is reached, and live moneyline markets with the best prices. A typical Premier League match during beta ran several of these in parallel, where most prediction platforms list a few sub-markets per match.
“I spent 22 years trading sports, watching exploitative pricing of sportsbooks and limits of sharp traders cut to nothing the moment they started winning,” said Amit Mahensaria, CEO and co-founder of Pred. “Pred is the exchange I wanted as a trader. The UX and speed of a sportsbook, the pricing and transparency of an on-chain exchange.”
General-purpose prediction markets are today benefiting from the broken market structure and exploitative pricing of sportsbooks. But they are not designed for live sports – neither in UX, nor in speed, nor in market variety. Sports trading will be a verticalised play, and being such a large asset class, it needs its own exchange.
The product going live today is Pred V2, rebuilt after more than 300 calls with beta users. Pred is backed by Accel and Coinbase Ventures.
About Pred
Pred is a peer-to-peer sports native prediction market built on Base. Positions are denominated in USDC, matched through an open order book, and settled at high speed on-chain.
Disclaimer: Pred does not operate in India, Singapore, the United States, or OFAC-sanctioned countries.
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