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Story: World Prediction Market Ditches Solana for Robinhood’s 28 Million Users

By Sakamoto Nashi

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Why Robinhood Chain Won the Pitch. Prediction markets are booming. Open bets across the sector hit a record $1.

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Open Questions Nobody's Answered Yet. But the move left a mess of unanswered questions. Users with open bets on World right now don't…

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World just left Solana. Days after launching there, the prediction market platform announced it's moving to Robinhood Chain — and it didn't really explain why.

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The timeline here is pretty striking. World debuted on Solana's Phantom wallet on July 1, riding what had been a stealth marketing campaign that built real buzz before the launch.

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World's announcement thanked Solana warmly, cited no problems, and framed the move as strategic.

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For World, the Robinhood pitch probably wasn't hard to accept. Chainlink already works with Robinhood Chain, so the automatic settlement feature World built its identity around…

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And Robinhood's user base isn't just big — it's a different kind of user. Solana attracts crypto-native traders.

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But the move left a mess of unanswered questions. Users with open bets on World right now don't have a clear picture of what happens to those positions during the migration.

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That ambiguity is fueling skepticism in some corners of the community. A chunk of users suspect World basically used Solana for the launch hype — tapping into the Solana…

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Robinhood's stock got a small bounce on the news. Makes sense — landing a project that the Solana Foundation had publicly championed is a real signal that Robinhood Chain is…

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The broader prediction market landscape keeps growing regardless. World Cup markets on World were pulling significant wagers before the move was announced.

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World's Chainlink integration stays intact either way. That's probably the one clean, certain piece of this whole situation — the settlement mechanism that made World stand out…

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Everything else is still pretty murky. No migration timeline. No detailed plan for open bets. No real explanation for why Solana wasn't good enough after a week.

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