World Leaves Solana for Robinhood Chain

The move comes shortly after the launch on Phantom and raises questions about Solana’s role as the launchpad. Robinhood Chain focuses on tokenized stocks and prediction markets, with Chainlink and CASH handling settlement.

Key Takeaways

• World is shifting its prediction market from Solana to Robinhood Chain, less than a week after it launched on Phantom.
• The project did not offer a clear explanation for the switch, even though Solana provides low fees, fast transactions, and access to Phantom users.
• Robinhood Chain is built around tokenized stocks and onchain finance, while prediction markets are becoming a bigger focus for major platforms.

World is moving its prediction market from Solana to Robinhood Chain, less than a week after it launched on Phantom. The switch came with no clear explanation, and it puts Solana’s brief role as the project’s launchpad in question.

Quick Turn After Launch

World went live on July 1 inside Phantom, the crypto Wallet that has more than 15 million monthly users. Ahead of the launch, the project drew attention with a stealth campaign built around a glowing globe and the slogan Trade Everything, and the Solana Foundation even pointed to it as a showcase for the network.

The prediction market allowed users to place bets on real-world events such as elections, soccer, and the Bitcoin price. World does not custody user funds, and settlement happens automatically through Chainlink data, with payouts made in the CASH stablecoin. That sets it apart from Polymarket and Kalshi, where users often need to claim winnings on their own.

Why Robinhood Chain

In its announcement, World thanked the Solana Foundation and the broader community, but it did not give a real reason for leaving. That makes the decision stand out, especially since Solana did not seem to have any technical problems and already offered low fees, fast transactions, and access to Phantom users.

Robinhood Chain launched on July 1 as Robinhood’s own blockchain for tokenized stocks and onchain finance, using Arbitrum technology underneath. Its parent company reaches nearly 28 million customers across 38 countries, mostly mainstream investors, and Robinhood now says prediction markets are its fastest-growing product line by revenue.

Robinhood also said earlier that demand is accelerating quickly. The company says more than 1 million customers traded over 9 billion contracts in the first year, while the prediction markets sector reached a record $1.48 billion (€1.3 billion) in open bets in June, according to a16z crypto.

What This Means for the Market

For European crypto readers, the main point is that prediction markets are moving past pure crypto-native products and into infrastructure that also fits large mainstream platforms. The CFTC also withdrew a 2026 proposal that would have banned event contracts tied to politics and sports, which could leave the sector facing fewer restrictions in the U.S.

That makes World’s move more than a simple technical migration. The combination of a mainstream broker, a CFTC license in progress, and an existing Chainlink integration shows how quickly the competition in this corner of crypto is evolving. For now, though, some important details are still missing, including when trading on the new chain will fully begin and how open bets will be transferred.