Predicting the market boom, learn about 10 early Alpha projects in one article

Author: momo, ChainCatcher

Recently, the popularity of the prediction market sector has surged, becoming a focal point of interest in both the crypto space and the compliant financial market. Following Polymarket's acquisition of up to $2 billion in funding from ICE, the parent company of the New York Stock Exchange, which led to a post-investment valuation soaring to $9 billion, another prediction platform, Kalshi, which adheres to compliance, has also announced the completion of a $300 million financing round. According to Bloomberg, Kalshi is in talks with several venture capital firms, and its valuation is expected to exceed $10 billion.

Currently, neither Polymarket nor Kalshi has conducted a TGE, making them two hot projects that the crypto community is keenly exploring for potential interaction opportunities. In addition, a number of earlier-stage prediction market projects have begun to attract attention. This article will provide a brief overview of these emerging projects worth noting.

Opinion

Opinion (formerly known as O.LAB) is a prediction market supported by YZi Labs. In March, it announced a $5 million seed round financing, led by YZi Labs, with participation from Amber Group, Manifold Trading, echo, and Animoca Ventures. Prior to this, YZi Labs had also invested in a previous round.

The Opinion product matrix includes a decentralized prediction market, a dynamic opinion market, and an AI oracle. It recently announced that its mainnet will soon launch on BNB Chain and will introduce a points system.

Ventuals

Ventuals is deployed on Hyperliquid (HIP-3 standard) and focuses on the Pre-IPO perpetual futures market, allowing users to long/short the valuations of private companies (such as OpenAI and SpaceX) using USDC. The platform seamlessly integrates on-chain valuation data and Privy wallets to address the liquidity/speed issues of traditional prediction markets.

Ventuals has launched its testnet and plans to go live with its mainnet and TGE in Q4 2025.

Recommended reading: “Paradigm Incubation, Ventuals Attempts to Bridge the 'Last Mile' of On-Chain Private Equity Trading | CryptoSeed”

TradeFox

TradeFox (formerly factCheck) was incubated by AllianceDAO and initially focused on creating a news fact-checking version of Polymarket, allowing users to bet on the truthfulness of already occurred events. However, it later transformed into a prediction market aggregator, focusing on integrating decentralized prediction markets (such as Polymarket, Kalshi, and Limitless) into a seamless trading terminal, allowing users to trade on real-world events (such as political elections, sports events, and crypto price fluctuations) with leverage. The trading interface is very similar to Hyperliquid.

TradeFox is currently in the early testing phase.

Melee

Melee is a prediction market on Solana, positioned as "Viral Markets," allowing users to create fact or opinion markets (such as pop culture and sports) without permission. Its creator economy model offers a 20% share of trading fees, rewarding early accurate predictors without the need for traditional market makers. The platform enhances user engagement through social integration (such as one-click sharing on X/Discord).

It has completed a $3.5 million pre-seed round financing, led by Variant, with participation from DBA and several angel investors, including Meltem Demirors, Chief Strategy Officer of CoinShares, Anatoly Yakovenko, co-founder of Solana Labs, and Web3 investor Santiago Roel Santos.

Melee is currently in internal testing and requires an invitation code.

Recommended reading: “Understanding the Newcomer in Prediction Markets: Melee, Focused on Socialization and Deep Integration with the Creator Economy”

Myriad

Myriad is developed by DASTAN, the parent company of Decrypt and Rug Radio, and seamlessly integrates blockchain-based prediction markets into news and social media pages like Twitter, YouTube, and Decrypt through a browser extension. Users can conveniently participate in predictions using USDC or platform points while browsing content, achieving "one-click ordering." Its prediction topics cover a wide range of areas, including cryptocurrency, politics, sports, and culture. The platform is built on blockchains such as Abstract, Linea, and Celo.

Myriad is expected to conduct its TGE this year and is currently in the Pre-TGE points activity phase, where users can earn points by participating in social tasks and prediction markets.

The Clearing Company

The Clearing Company was founded by Toni Gemayel, who previously served as the growth director at Kalshi and Polymarket. Its goal is to combine the openness of decentralization with the credibility of compliant regulation, creating a new generation of prediction markets that can be accepted by retail investors and favored by regulators.

In August of this year, The Clearing Company announced the completion of a $15 million seed round financing, led by USV, with participation from well-known institutions such as Coinbase Ventures.

The Clearing Company is still in the early development stage.

Recommended reading: “The Clearing Company Emerges, Are the 'Big Three' of Prediction Markets Here?”

Buzzing

Buzzing aims to become a personalized prediction market tailored to individual users. By reducing the creation cost to zero, achieving unlimited supply, and utilizing algorithmic recommendations to drive daily discovery, Buzzing transforms prediction markets from "hit-driven" to "mechanism-driven."

Buzzing recently launched its testnet on Fluent, and the platform has opened a playground (testing environment), allowing users to use the fUSD faucet for simulations free of charge.

Buzzing co-founder Luke has previously served as a product manager at Alibaba and Cobo.

Noise

Unlike Polymarket, which focuses on binary betting on event outcomes, Noise allows users to engage in leveraged trading on specific events, built on MegaETH, aiming to capture the "noise" of the crypto community and convert it into an on-chain market.

Noise is currently in the early testing phase.

Rumour

Rumour is developed by the AltLayer team, focusing on transforming "rumors" within the crypto community into tradable assets, allowing users to bet on unconfirmed rumors (such as exchange listings, partnerships, and narrative shifts).

Rumour is currently in the early development stage.

worm.wtf

worm.wtf is a prediction market within the Solana ecosystem, recently announcing the launch of its mainnet. It supports AIGC, allowing users to simply input prompts, and the platform can help users generate prediction markets instantly.