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The moment when the prediction market "crosses the gap to become mainstream" arrives, as FIFA announces that ADI PredictStreet (an ADI Chain ecosystem application) is its first global partner in the prediction market category.

This means that the 6.5 million ticket‑holding fans at this year's World Cup, as well as billions of fans worldwide, will encounter ADI PredictStreet’s prediction market through FIFA’s digital platforms and on‑site interactive activities.

Why were ADI Chain and ADI PredictStreet able to secure an official partnership with FIFA?

As a blockchain infrastructure designed for institution‑level compliance applications, ADI Chain is supported by Sirius International, a subsidiary of IHC (market cap $240 billion), and operates under the regulatory framework of ADGM (Abu Dhabi Global Market). Earlier this year, the AED‑backed stablecoin DDSC (regulated by the Central Bank of the UAE and jointly issued by First Abu Dhabi Bank and IHC) was launched on ADI Chain.

A brief note on IHC: International Holding Company (IHC) is a global diversified holding group headquartered in Abu Dhabi, one of the most important investment giants in the UAE (especially Abu Dhabi), and the largest listed company by market cap on the Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange (ADX).

As the first consumer‑grade application on the ADI Chain public‑chain ecosystem, every prediction market transaction on ADI PredictStreet settles on ADI Chain, with $ADI serving as the utility token; thus each prediction settlement consumes $ADI tokens. This partnership marks the debut of ADI Chain and ADI PredictStreet on the world’s biggest sports stage – the World Cup.

This collaboration appears to be more than a marketing stunt; it is a deep, infrastructure‑level partnership that seamlessly connects payment, settlement, and the entire prediction market chain. FIFA’s selection is a powerful endorsement – as the most stringent and compliance‑focused sports organization globally, its partners undergo multiple rounds of communication and rigorous material vetting. Selecting ADI PredictStreet and ADI Chain implicitly confirms that ADI Chain has passed top‑tier institutional compliance reviews, offering security, auditability, and regulatory oversight capable of supporting applications at a multi‑billion scale.

For the blockchain industry as a whole, this is a milestone, given that the most mainstream and authoritative sports institutions worldwide are adopting the technology at scale.

For prediction markets, FIFA’s strong entry, combined with compliance, massive real‑world user base, and top‑tier sports IP endorsement, will propel the market directly to billions of mainstream sports fans. 2026 will undoubtedly be the year prediction markets explode into mainstream awareness.

For ADI Chain, all 104 World Cup matches and thousands of prediction markets will settle on ADI Chain, each settlement consuming real $ADI tokens, generating huge demand and usage for $ADI. Becoming the on‑chain settlement infrastructure for real‑world scenarios means massive transaction volume and gas consumption. It’s not just short‑term traffic; it will greatly boost network activity, developer ecosystem, and utility.

For ordinary fans, the 2026 World Cup viewing experience could be very different: while watching the game on TV or in the stadium, they can use ADI PredictStreet to participate in real‑time on‑chain betting, predicting scores, outcomes, goal counts… and earn rewards for correct guesses, achieving an immersive “watch‑play‑earn” experience.

Instead of searching the world for meme coins to gamble against market makers, it's better to position early in the certain and traffic‑driven World Cup.

FIFA just announced that ADI PredictStreet has become its first global prediction‑market partner for the 2026 World Cup; the announcement came from the official InsideFIFA account, not a unilateral claim by the project.

In past years the World Cup has been a playground for gambling and underground casinos. Now, with a prediction market, you can support watching the matches with real money bets, creating a different kind of excitement and more focused attention (I don’t even watch soccer, but I watch CSGO and LoL).

The last time FIFA dealt with blockchain was in 2022 when it sold NFTs.
This time it’s different: they chose the infrastructure, the full payment and settlement chain, running on ADI Chain, and the gas burned is $ADI.

FIFA lacks neither money nor traffic, so they picked a chain to run the World Cup prediction market.

I’m curious how compliant ADI PredictStreet has to be to be selected: looking at it, it’s backed by IHC, a sovereign‑level super‑investor from Abu Dhabi managing a market cap of $240 billion.

Differences between ADI PredictStreet and Polymarket:
▪️Polymarket is a crypto‑native product, blockchain‑focused.
▪️ADI PredictStreet’s entry point is the FIFA digital platform and fan festivals, meant for viewers.
▪️Funds reside in smart contracts, not held by the platform.
▪️Compliance level differs, regulated by ADGM.

Polymarket proved the market for prediction markets with the U.S. election.
ADI PredictStreet’s logic is football and entertainment.
A huge pool and inherent traffic.

The 2022 World Cup final between Argentina and France was watched by 1.5 billion people, and the whole tournament had 5 billion unique viewers. In 2026 the number of teams will expand from 32 to 48, so the scale will only grow.

That level of exposure on a chain‑based prediction market is substantial.
Distribution channels are concrete; whether it can run smoothly will be shown by the data.

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⚽ FIFA Partners with ADI for World Cup Prediction Market

FIFA has signed a deal with ADI Predictstreet to launch a prediction market platform for the World Cup on the ADI Chain. The network's token reached a new all-time high on Friday, according to Decrypt.