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**Source:** [https://x.com/world\_xyz/status/2097666354744594518](https://x.com/world_xyz/status/2097666354744594518)
Today, [World.xyz](https://world.xyz/) goes live to unleash a new era of fully onchain prediction market adoption, giving more than 1 million users access to thousands of markets across sports, crypto, politics, finance, economics, culture, commodities, and weather - powered by [@Solana](https://x.com/@Solana), [@Chainlink](https://x.com/@Chainlink), and [@useCASH](https://x.com/@useCASH) by [@Phantom](https://x.com/@Phantom).
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**Full story by** [**@DefiantNews**](https://x.com/@DefiantNews)
[https://thedefiant.io/news/markets/world-xyz-opens-solana-prediction-market-to-1m-person-waitlist-with-chainlink-powering-resolution](https://thedefiant.io/news/markets/world-xyz-opens-solana-prediction-market-to-1m-person-waitlist-with-chainlink-powering-resolution)
GRAND CAYMAN, September 9, 2026 – World, the Solana prediction market, opened its standalone platform at [world.xyz](http://world.xyz/) today with more than 1 million users on the waitlist.
This launch opens Solana’s ecosystem to a massive new wave of users, helping bring increased prediction market trading activity to the world’s most widely used blockchain.
World has featured more than 150k markets across sports, crypto, politics, finance, economics, and culture since going live to power predictions in Phantom in July.
Now, [world.xyz](http://world.xyz/) launches with every NFL regular-season game, seven soccer leagues, Formula 1, the 2026 midterms, the Federal Reserve's next decision, and much more.
"We have seen a proliferation of retail trading apps on Solana this year," said Ramzy Ali ([u/ramzyyalii](https://x.com/@ramzyyalii)), Head of DeFi, Solana Foundation. "World is the next in line, bringing an entirely new asset class to Solana and keeping 100% of liquidity onchain."
Under the hood, Chainlink [Data Streams](https://chain.link/data-streams) and the [Chainlink Runtime Environment (CRE)](https://chain.link/chainlink-runtime-environment) are providing the high-speed market data and orchestration infra required for advanced prediction markets, enabling World to resolve markets accurately and immediately when a game ends or a stock closes. By replacing human panels and token-holder votes with automated data-driven resolution, Chainlink infrastructure helps eliminate manual interventions and lengthy dispute windows that plague legacy oracle solutions.
Together, World and Chainlink are enabling faster re-entry into new markets and unlocking capital velocity throughout the Solana prediction market ecosystem at scale.
“World’s rapid growth and 1 million user waitlist reflects the massive demand for next-generation prediction markets on Solana,” said Johann Eid ([u/EidJohann](https://x.com/@EidJohann)), Chief Business Officer at Chainlink Labs. “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.”
Every market on World is represented as a pair of binary “yes” and “no” contracts that are priced between zero and one dollar (subject to market demand). Contracts are settled in CASH, Phantom's dollar-backed stablecoin.
Equity up/down and commodity markets on gold, silver, oil, natural gas, and compute launch soon, followed by weather predictions covering the largest cities in the world.
World is available now at [world.xyz](https://world.xyz/) and inside Phantom on iOS, Android, and desktop.

**About World**
World is Solana's native, fully onchain platform for self-custodial prediction market trading. World delivers real-time onchain performance, with fast routing, near-zero revert rates, instant settlement, and automatic redemption. Market coverage spans extensively into crypto and financial price predictions, sports, geopolitics, economics, culture, commodities, weather and the biggest questions in macro. World is how the world trades what happens next. Learn more at [world.xyz](http://world.xyz/).

**About Chainlink**
Chainlink is the industry-standard oracle platform bringing the capital markets onchain and the market leader powering the majority of DeFi. The Chainlink stack provides the essential data, interoperability, compliance, and privacy standards needed to power advanced blockchain use cases for institutional tokenized assets, lending, payments, stablecoins, and more. Since inventing decentralized oracle networks, Chainlink has enabled tens of trillions in transaction value and now secures the vast majority of DeFi.
Many of the world’s largest financial services institutions have also adopted Chainlink’s standards and infrastructure, including Swift, Euroclear, Mastercard, Fidelity International, UBS, S&P Dow Jones Indices, FTSE Russell, WisdomTree, ANZ, and top protocols such as Aave, Lido, Lighter, and many others. Chainlink leverages a novel fee model where offchain and onchain revenue from enterprise adoption is converted to LINK tokens and stored in a strategic Chainlink Reserve. Learn more at [chain.link](http://chain.link/).

**About Phantom**
Phantom is on a mission to connect the world to the freedom of open markets. Phantom has a community of more than 20 million people who use it to move, manage, and own their money on the internet. Built on self-custody, Phantom gives anyone one app to control their assets and trade markets that never close, from tokens and perpetuals to prediction markets (only available to users in certain jurisdictions). Through its in-app money suite and CASH, the first stablecoin built on Bridge and Stripe's Open Issuance platform, Phantom turns crypto rails into everyday money that always stays under your control. For more information, visit [phantom.com](http://phantom.com/).

The industry degenerated into Mazoni's Artist's Shit and Cattelan's Comedian. The industry part of it wasn't about fixing finance.
Let's replay a bit of the last few cycles.
2017 was selling the idea that rich people are rich because accredited investors already have money, can buy into IPOs and rip off the general public by flipping to them in subsequent rounds. ICOs being for unaccredited investors. That narrative got people betting on napkin math, whitepapers and founder narratives. Everyone's a VC.
2021 was yield farming. Far more complicated. So it degenerated into NFTs and animal coins. Some legit looking projects too, but Binance ran away with those and made walled garden, LARP versions to siphon financial support to the knockoffs and kept a lot of interesting projects on the ground. The NFTs were interesting but they quickly crossed from a way to use virtualized scarcity to solve for duplication issues in digitizing tradfi and economics to art jokes.
2025 calcified crypto as a shitcoin casino. We were back to www wild west types of degeneracy with people hard scamming, selling themselves in borderline criminal (sometimes criminal) ways. It was just BTC and a few platforms that made it easy for anyone to mint a meme coin. Unrelated to the Solana hell, we saw Polymarket rise as a killer app.
2025 made fighting for crypto's reputation impossible. So did 2021 with the animal coins and things like BAND vs LINK, PancakeSwap vs Uniswap, Venus Protocol vs AAVE. People forget, but 2021-2022 was when it went off the rails. There were legitimate looking projects rising from the ashes of 2017-2018. But the collective we went with spring breaker tier champagne popping at the knockoffs, NFTs and the meme coins.
Crypto is not going to loudly revolutionize anything at this point. It is a tool to be worked with if its the right solution to emergent problems. We have digital gold, peer to peer gambling, turing complete ledgers, oracles to connect chains and offchains, etc.
I'll point at individual technologies when they make sense to include in a solution. I'll hope the infrastructure and expertise are there to pick up the pieces if a finance catastrophe plays out. But I can't evangelize it without acknowledging a lot of bullshit in the past decade.

If you place orders through a broker API, you have already run into this. You paste an IP into the whitelist box on your developer profile, everything works, and then you move your laptop to the office or switch to a mobile hotspot and every order starts getting rejected. Most brokers only let you change that whitelisted IP once a week, so a mistake costs you seven days.
The problem is that home broadband gives you a dynamic IP. It changes on reconnect, on router reboot, and obviously the moment you switch networks.
There are two fixes.
\*\*Option 1: ask your ISP for a static IP\*\*
Call Jio, Airtel, ACT or whoever you use and ask for a static IP on your connection. Some will give it, usually on a business plan. It works and it is the simplest option.
The catch is that it pins you to one physical connection. Your laptop is now a desktop. Move it, or fall back to a hotspot during an outage, and you are locked out until the weekly whitelist reset.
\*\*Option 2: route your orders through a cheap VM (this is the one I use)\*\*
Instead of whitelisting your own connection, you put a small virtual machine in the middle. Your orders go from your machine, through the VM, to the broker. The broker only ever sees the VM's public IP, so it does not matter what network you are on. Home Wi-Fi, office, hotspot, a train, all the same.
Oracle Cloud's Always Free tier gives you a machine that costs nothing and does not expire. Other providers work identically.
\*\*Setting it up\*\*
1. Sign up at Oracle Cloud free tier. You will pay a small verification charge (about ₹1) that gets refunded.
2. Pick your home region carefully at signup. This cannot be changed later. Pick India South (Hyderabad) or India West (Mumbai), whichever you are offered.
3. Create a Virtual Cloud Network using the VCN Wizard. Name it, next, create. That is the whole step.
4. Create an instance. Change the image to Ubuntu, and confirm the shape shows the "Always Free Eligible" badge. Download the SSH private key when it offers it and do not lose it.
5. Wait for the state to go from provisioning to running, then copy the public IP.
Five minutes, no coding.
\*\*Actually routing traffic through it\*\*
This is the part that is independent of whatever software you use. Three ways, easiest first:
\*Run your bot on the VM itself.\* If you have a headless Python script, just SCP it over and run it there under systemd or tmux. Traffic already originates from the VM's IP. Nothing else to configure.
\*SSH dynamic port forward.\* Keep the bot on your laptop and tunnel its outbound calls:
ssh -i yourkey.key -D 1080 -N ubuntu@YOUR\_VM\_IP
Then point your client at a SOCKS5 proxy on 127.0.0.1:1080. In Python, most broker SDKs use requests underneath, so this works:
proxies = {"http": "socks5h://127.0.0.1:1080", "https": "socks5h://127.0.0.1:1080"}
Check your SDK actually passes proxies through. Websocket connections often need configuring separately from REST calls. Wrap the ssh command in autossh so it reconnects if the tunnel drops mid-session.
\*WireGuard.\* Full tunnel, more robust than SSH forwarding, more setup. Worth it if you are doing this long term.
Then paste the VM's public IP into your broker's whitelist box and update.
\*\*Verify before you trust it\*\*
From inside your bot's actual network path, hit an IP echo service and confirm the address matches what you whitelisted. Do not assume. If you accidentally put the VM in a private subnet behind a NAT gateway, the egress IP is different from the one shown in the console, and you will not find out until an order fails.
\*\*Two things that will bite you later\*\*
Oracle assigns new instances an \*ephemeral\* public IP. It survives reboots and stop/start, but it is released if you terminate the instance or detach the VNIC. Given the once-a-week whitelist limit, convert it to a Reserved Public IP in the console. Free tier includes two at no cost, and it takes about a minute.
Oracle also reclaims idle Always Free compute. Their published threshold is 95th percentile CPU under 20% over a 7 day window. A VM that only routes a handful of orders sits far below that, so this affects algo traders more than almost anyone. Upgrading the account to Pay As You Go exempts you from reclamation while keeping the Always Free resources free.
\*\*Also worth knowing\*\*
Most brokers let you whitelist two IPs. Register your home connection and the VM, and you have a fallback either way.
This is not Oracle-specific. AWS, Azure, GCP, Hetzner, a ₹300 Indian VPS, all identical. Oracle is just the one that is free indefinitely.
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Full disclosure: I build and sell a trading terminal called Imperium, and I made a video walking through this whole setup because I kept answering the same question. In the video the VM connects through the app's built-in router, so there is no SSH or proxy config to do by hand. If you are not using it, everything above still applies, you just wire up the tunnel yourself.
Video, if the screen recording is easier to follow than the text: \[LINK\]
Happy to answer questions.