POPA Recon2026 World Cup is the most crypto-integrated event in the history of sport
2026 World Cup is the most crypto-integrated event in the history of sport This isn't marketing or a few sponsor logos on a banner. FIFA has embedded blockchain into the tournament deeper than ever before: for the first time, the World Cup has an official prediction market partner — ADI Predictstreet, which launched on-chain markets for all 104 matches, settled through Chainlink. FIFA also stopped renting other people's chains and built its own blockchain on Avalanche L1 — that's where FIFA Collect now lives. The old partner, Algorand, is history. And around all of it sits a layer any fan…
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