World settles bets with an oracle. That is the third model

Summary World opened its standalone platform at world.xyz on September 9 to more than one million waitlisted users, after operating inside the Phantom wallet since the summer. More than 150,000 markets have been created across sports, crypto, politics, finance, economics, and culture, with the initial lineup covering every NFL regular-season game, seven soccer leagues, Formula 1, the 2026 midterms, and Federal Reserve policy decisions. Resolution runs through Chainlink Data Streams and the Chainlink Runtime Environment, with no human resolution panel, no token-holder vote, and no dispute window delaying payouts. The protocol is non-custodial, holds no customer funds, routes orders to liquidity providers on Solana, settles in CASH, and requires no brokerage account or exchange registration. The site went offline on launch day under traffic from the waitlist before returning. Every argument about prediction markets this year has been about who is allowed to run one. New York suing for billions. A dozen state gaming regulators issuing orders. Three California tribes at the Ninth Circuit. A bill to ban sports contracts outright. Almost none of it touches the question that decides wheth...