🔱Summary of Coinbase Ventures' 2026 Outlook Report:
1️⃣RWA perpetual fund (more RWA assets on-chain, such as oil)
2️⃣Professional exchanges and trading terminals
---Prop AMMs model: Protecting liquidity of market makers from being preyed upon
---Prediction markets: Prediction market aggregators are the future direction, providing a unified view of cross-platform real-time event odds, platform routing, position tracking, cross-platform arbitrage tools, etc.
3️⃣Next-generation decentralized finance
---Perp Markets perpetual markets: Developing more uses to earn yields
---Unsecured loans and credit: On-chain reputation combined with off-chain data
---Privacy chains: Protecting configuration and professional individual traders, such as privacy-protected assets (Zcash) and DeFi applications (private order books, lending, etc.)
4️⃣Artificial intelligence and robotics
---DEPIN + high-quality data collection
---Proof of humanity
---On-chain development with AI
🔶Key tracks: PrepDEX, prediction market aggregators, privacy chains
🔶Personal summary:
2026 may still be a year of continued popularity for PrepDEX + prediction markets, and the World Cup is approaching, many users can participate in events like the World Cup without resorting to underground trading methods for predictions.
🎗️Partnership between EdgeX + Polymarket
🎗️Lighter + Kalshi or self-developed prediction market (speculation)
🎗️Aster + Opinion (speculation)
🎗️Backpack + self-developed prediction market (speculation)
The combination of mainstream PrepDEX and prediction markets will bring greater trading volume and liquidity funds, with huge potential opportunities in 2026, marking a more grand narrative direction!!!
