What happened? Rain Trade has launched a marketplace designed to make prediction markets more open and community-driven. While traditional platforms limit users to pre-created markets and outcomes, Rain Trade lets anyone create markets on any topic, in any language, turning public opinion into real-time odds that reflect what people believe will happen next.
Launching during the 2026 FIFA World Cup, the platform enables users to trade on matches, players, and live moments driving one of the world’s biggest sporting events.
Former professional boxer Mike Tyson is leading the official launch campaign.
As more users turn to prediction markets to gauge sentiment and forecast outcomes, Rain Trade shifts users from passive traders to active market creators.
The platform enables users to open global forecasts to the public, host invitation-only private markets for a specific community, or participate in any available public market.
“Traditional prediction markets have operated with a backward mentality,” said Roy Shaham, CEO of Rain Protocol, on which Rain Trade is built. “They’ve historically focused on controlling what people can predict rather than giving them the opportunity to create markets themselves. Fans are more creative, more engaged, and often more in tune with the moments that matter than any single commentator. Rain Trade is giving users the freedom to decide what deserves a market, and the World Cup is a perfect stage to show how powerful prediction markets can become when they are shaped directly by the communities participating in them.”
Rain Trade supports both AI-powered and manual market resolution, giving market creators the flexibility to choose between automated, data-driven outcomes and hands-on resolution management.
Additional key features include:
- Gas-Sponsored Experience: Trade without the friction of manual gas management. The platform uses account abstraction to keep the blockchain side invisible.
- Cross-Chain Funding: Fund your account using assets from Arbitrum, Ethereum, BNB Chain, Base, or Bitcoin. The system handles bridging and conversion automatically so you can trade in USDT.
- Market Rewards: Market creators earn a 1% fee from the total trading volume of any market they create. Additional rewards are available to users who trigger a market closure or propose a correct resolution outcome.
Rain Trade is built on Rain Protocol, the decentralized protocol layer that powers the ecosystem and provides developers with the tools needed to create and launch their own forecasting and prediction market applications.
The launch comes as Rain Protocol prepares for its next phase of expansion, following Enlivex’s $200+ million commitment to the Rain ecosystem and Rain’s $100 million additional injection to protocol liquidity.
“Throughout my career, I’ve always respected people who are willing to challenge expectations and build something different.” says former professional boxer Mike Tyson, leading the official launch campaign. “The platform gives people the ability to create markets around the topics they care about and see what millions of others think about the outcomes that matter most. Rain Trade is creating a new way for people to engage with ideas, opinions, and predictions. I’m excited to support the team and be a part of the World Cup grand launch.”
Reporting by Rohit Kumar; Editing by Rakhi Shah
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