With Trump back in the White House, the prediction market is experiencing an unprecedented wave of mainstreaming. The latest major news is that the world's largest prediction market, Polymarket, has received tens of millions of dollars in investment from a venture capital fund linked to Donald Trump Jr., the former president's son. Not only did the presidential son invest through his 1789 Capital, but he will also join Polymarket's advisory board.

This investment in Polymarket may also imply that the likelihood of its IPO is much greater than the possibility of a token issuance. 1789 Capital is also an investor in star companies like Anduril and SpaceX. According to sources, 1789 Capital's founder, Omeed Malik, had been in contact with Polymarket's CEO Shayne Coplan for 18 months, but it was only after the company had a clear legal pathway in the U.S. market that the formal investment took place.

Another interesting phenomenon is that most prediction market projects are still in a pre-token state, offering limited options for secondary market investors. Even for a prediction market giant like Polymarket, its most direct investment target is the UMA protocol, which provides oracle services.

Against this backdrop, BlockBeats has selected six prediction market track projects. From Flipr, which has the potential for a hundredfold increase in two months and embeds trading into social media for viral spread, to infrastructure-focused projects like UMA and Azuro, to emerging protocols that enable fully autonomous trading decisions through AI algorithms, these projects not only have unique technical architectures but also demonstrate drastically different paths in terms of business models and user experiences. It is important to note that this article is for industry analysis and information consolidation purposes only and does not constitute any investment advice.

Flipr: A Social Prediction Market with a Hundredfold Increase in Two Months

Flipr is positioned as the "social layer of prediction markets." Its core innovation lies in embedding prediction market trading into the X (Twitter) platform, allowing users to place bets without leaving their social timeline.

Users simply need to tag @fliprbot in a tweet, specify the direction and amount, and the bot will parse the command and execute the trade instantly. The executed order is automatically posted as a quoted tweet for betting on Polymarket and Kalshi, where others can easily copy, bet in the opposite direction, or share. This design transforms the traditional prediction market from an isolated website interface to a viral social experience, where each transaction naturally becomes shareable content, significantly lowering the user acquisition cost. Additionally, Flipr has introduced features such as up to 5x leverage, stop-loss, take-profit, and advanced order types.

On the team and funding front, as of August 2025, the project team members' identities have not been disclosed, maintaining an anonymous operational status. To date, no equity financing rounds or venture capitalists have been announced.

Regarding tokenomics data, according to CoinGecko, as of September 1, 2025, the current price of $FLIPR is $0.009951, with a market capitalization of approximately $6.96 million. It is worth noting that the token has achieved a hundredfold increase in value from under $2 million to a peak of $21 million within two months, demonstrating strong market momentum. However, after reaching a historical high of $0.02804 on August 25, the current price has dropped by 64.5% from the peak, indicating a significant pullback from the peak.

UMA: The King of Prediction Market Infrastructure

UMA's position in the prediction market is undeniable, with prominent protocols such as Polymarket and Across adopting UMA as the dispute resolution solution.

UMA (Universal Market Access) is positioned as the "Optimistic Oracle" protocol, with its core innovation being the construction of a dual-layer architecture consisting of the Optimistic Oracle and Data Verification Mechanism (DVM). According to the UMA official documentation, the protocol employs a "presume correctness, then dispute resolution" mechanism, where anyone can assert an external truth on-chain and stake collateral. If no one challenges it during the predetermined active period, it is deemed correct. This design enables results to be provided in the majority of cases without the need for voting, achieving near real-time speed and minimal on-chain costs. Additionally, UMA token holders can resolve disputes through off-chain voting within 48-96 hours.

On the funding front, according to RootData, since its inception in 2018, UMA has raised a total of $6.6 million in funding, primarily concentrated in the early stages. The $4 million seed round in December 2018 was led by Placeholder, with participation from notable institutions such as Coinbase Ventures, Dragonfly, Blockchain Capital, and Bain Capital Ventures. Notably, in July 2021, the project raised $2.6 million through an innovative Range Token structure, providing a low-slippage liquidity solution for the DAO treasury. Participants included professional institutions such as Amber Group, Wintermute, and BitDAO. Compared to the multimillion-dollar funding rounds of emerging DeFi projects, UMA's funding scale is relatively conservative, reflecting the team's focus on growth driven by product innovation rather than capital expansion.

UMA adopts a staking mechanism to secure the network. According to the official documentation, stakers lock up UMA in the DVM 2.0 contract to vote on oracle disputes. Stakers can earn approximately a 30% target annualized return and participate in the redistribution of slashed funds from erroneous voters. On August 12, UMA activated the "Optimistic Oracle Manager V2" contract for Polymarket, restricting proposal submission to whitelist members.

With Binance adding UMA trading pairs on August 26, the market expects increased liquidity. However, the medium to long-term performance will depend on the ability to mitigate token holder capture risk while maintaining decentralization.

As of September 1, 2025, the price of $UMA is $1.38, with a market cap of approximately $123.8 million. It has seen an 8.9% increase in the last 14 days and a 13.8% increase in the last 30 days, demonstrating positive short-term performance. The token hit an all-time high of $41.56 on February 4, 2021, representing a 96.7% decrease from the peak price. However, its recent trend has been relatively stable.

Augur: Pioneer of Decentralized Prediction Markets

Augur is the first open-source decentralized prediction market protocol on Ethereum, often regarded as the pioneer of decentralized prediction markets.

In an article about prediction markets last November, Vitalik Buterin also mentioned Augur: "As early as 2015, I was an active user and supporter of Augur (my name is in the Wikipedia article). During the 2020 US election, I made $58,000 through betting."

The Augur protocol crowdsources reporting on real-world event outcomes from REP token holders. Inaccurate reporters risk losing their tokens, while those in consensus receive a share of platform fees. Augur also features a unique "forking to prevent consensus failure" mechanism. When disputes cannot be resolved, REP holders can migrate to a new parallel universe, making the economic cost of attacking the oracle extremely high. Augur can be seen as an alternative approach to UMA.

In terms of team composition, Augur was co-founded by three individuals with strong technical and financial backgrounds. According to Forbes, co-founder Joey Krug currently serves as Co-CIO of Pantera Capital. His early interest in prediction markets stemmed from developing a spreadsheet for analyzing horse races, eventually leading to the design of Augur's game-theoretic mechanics and spearheading Ethereum's first ICO. The other two co-founders, Jeremy Gardner and Jack Peterson, are also active in the blockchain ecosystem. The project's advisory board includes industry heavyweights such as Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin and Intrade founder Ron Bernstein.

In its funding history, the project conducted an ICO from August to October 2015, selling 8.8 million REP tokens at a price of $0.602 per token, raising approximately $5.3 million. Key investors included Pantera Capital, Multicoin Capital, 1confirmation, and other well-known institutions.

On the market feedback side, $Augur is undergoing a community-led revitalization. It is advancing a liquidity incentive program and exploring new research directions while facing challenges of liquidity shortage, resulting in weaker performance compared to early prediction market platforms. As of September 1, 2025, the REP price is $1.05, with a total supply of approximately 8.06 million tokens fully released, leading to a market cap of $8.5 million. It has experienced a 41.2% increase in the last 30 days and a 178% increase in the past year.

Azuro: Team with a Background in Traditional Betting Markets

Azuro is positioned as an open-source white-label infrastructure layer that allows anyone to launch on-chain sports and event prediction applications within minutes. According to official technical documentation, the protocol has built a complete prediction market tech stack through three plug-and-play modules: Singleton Liquidity Pools (enabling applications to access a shared fund pool and pay fees, with LPs earning trading fees and sharing the house's gains and losses), Data Provider/Oracle Layer (approved data providers create "conditional" markets and set initial boost capital and collateral), and Frontend Hooks (ready-to-use React components that enable branded sports betting or prediction games to launch without the need for backend development). This design positions Azuro as the "Shopify of sports betting," allowing frontend applications to maintain their UI/UX, pay a share of betting profits to the protocol, and avoid licensing and fund pool requirements.

The protocol's technical strengths lie in its LiquidityTree Virtual Automated Market Maker (vAMM) and shared Singleton LP architecture, which handles odds determination, liquidity management, oracle data, and settlement processes, eliminating the need for frontends to build their own trading engines. Based on official statistics, as of August 2025, Azuro supports over 30 real-time applications, with a total betting volume exceeding $530 million, involving around 31,000 unique wallets. In comparison to traditional sports betting, its permissionless liquidity and transparent on-chain settlement provide frontend developers with competitively fixed odds while significantly lowering the barriers to entry. The protocol currently operates on four chains: Polygon, Base, Chiliz, and Gnosis, with Polygon taking the lead, indicating that Azuro has received significant positive attention and strategic positioning within the Polygon ecosystem.

In terms of team composition, Azuro is led by a founder with a strong background in the traditional gambling industry. Founder and CEO Paruyr Shahbazyan was the founder of Bookmaker Ratings and has over 10 years of experience in the iGaming industry. In terms of funding history, Azuro has raised a total of $11 million through three rounds of funding, with investors including well-known institutions such as Gnosis, Flow Ventures, Arrington XRP, AllianceDAO, Delphi Digital, and Fenbushi.

As of September 1, 2025, the total supply of $AZUR is 1 billion tokens, with a circulating supply of 222.95 million tokens (22%), a price of $0.007894, and a market capitalization of approximately $1.81 million. The token reached an all-time high of $0.2396 on July 20, 2024, experiencing a 96.6% decline from its peak, but has recently shown a strong rebound with a 41.5% increase in the past 24 hours and a 41.8% increase in the past 7 days.

PNP Exchange: A Permissionless Prediction DEX on Solana

PNP Exchange is positioned as a permissionless prediction market DEX on Solana, with its core innovation being that any user can create "yes/no markets on anything imaginable" and earn 50% of the trading fees from its automated curve pool. According to the project's website, the platform uses an automated curve bonding pricing model to achieve instant on-chain settlement. What's innovative is that PNP integrates the LLM oracle system, which automatically resolves market outcomes through the consensus of Perplexity and Grok along with on-chain data sources, successfully completing the settlement of the first token market without any manual intervention.

The protocol's recently launched "Coin MCP" module showcases its rapid technological iteration, allowing users to create prediction markets with 1-hour settlement for any token's price, liquidity, or market cap. According to a social media announcement by the project's founder on August 28, the upcoming SDK will enable AI agents to programmatically create and trade markets, with gas costs expected to decrease by 90% in the next 2-3 days. This positioning of a "Pump.fun-style prediction market," distinguishes itself from traditional platforms like Kalshi and Polymarket by removing listing thresholds, making it a user-generated content-driven, meme-ified prediction trading venue.

The $PNP token follows a fully circulating design, with a total supply of approximately 965 million tokens. According to Birdeye data, as of September 1, 2025, the token price is $0.001665, with a market capitalization of around $1.6 million. It has seen a 148.8% increase in the last 30 days, with a 24-hour trading volume of $176,000, all conducted on the Meteora DEX.

Hedgemony: AI-Driven Autonomous Trading Algorithm

Hedgemony is positioned as a "fully autonomous AI trading algorithm" that specifically targets real-time predictive trading based on global news and political sentiment. According to DexScreener information, the algorithm captures approximately 2,500 real-time news and political information sources per second, including Trump's X account tweets, Bloomberg, Reuters, and national media channels.

Hedgemony utilizes a millisecond-latency Transformer language model to detect directional bias in global macro news headlines and executes high-frequency leveraged futures trades within a time window of up to 60 seconds before the information is publicly disseminated.

The protocol's innovation also lies in the design concept of the "intent-driven execution layer." According to official sources, Hedgemony provides users with an AI agent that can assemble exchange routes, dollar-cost averaging plans, yield orders, and narrative-based portfolio strategies through prompt-based input. The system is currently running an MVP version on Arbitrum and plans to expand to the Base, HyperEVM, and Monad networks.

In terms of funding, Hedgemony has completed a seed round extension financing, self-reportedly valuing the project at around $1 billion, although the specific funding amount has not been disclosed. It is important to note that this valuation claim has not been independently reported by media or verified through blockchain vested interest disclosures. Investors should exercise caution regarding such valuation data, especially considering the project is still in its early development stages.

Regarding tokenomics, the $HEDGEMONY token has a total and circulating supply of 1 billion tokens, following a fully circulating design. As of September 1, 2025, the token price is $0.005306, with a market cap of $5.3 million, where the fully diluted valuation is equal to the market cap. It has shown a 7-day increase of 64%, demonstrating positive short-term performance.

On-chain data shows 557 holding addresses, with a total liquidity pool size of $371,000, 251 transactions in the last 24 hours, and participation from 78 unique addresses. It is worth noting that the top 10 holdings account for a high 66.57%, with the largest single holding address owning around 50%, indicating a significant concentration risk. The project is still in a very early stage of speculative adoption, with a highly volatile risk-reward profile.

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