SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador, June 26, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Prediction markets have reached all-time-high daily trading volume in June, driven by the World Cup momentum. According to a new report by Bitget Wallet based on a 90-day study of 857,000 active Polymarket users, 60% had no prior onchain trading history before using prediction markets, suggesting the platform is pulling in a new class of mainstream participants, not recycling existing crypto users.

Prediction markets are increasingly functioning as an entry point into crypto rather than a niche trading category, with users now entering onchain activity directly through application-level interfaces instead of decentralized exchanges or DeFi protocols.

The findings…