What is the Unified Prediction Portfolio? Backpack Exchange Prediction Markets Beta‍

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GM Lads,
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Backpack Exchange is launching its Unified Prediction Portfolio — our first entry into the crypto prediction market space. Starting today, we're rolling out an invite-only private beta to our most active crypto traders. You can start trading predictions across crypto and finance markets, all within a single cross-margined account on the Backpack crypto exchange.
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The Problem with Crypto Prediction Markets

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Prediction markets are notoriously inefficient. You lock up your USD or crypto in a prediction; it's stuck there until the event resolves, and often this means that even when you have an edge on a bet, you don't make it. The opportunity cost of capital kills the trade before it happens.
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With the Unified Prediction Portfolio on Backpack Exchange, your crypto capital works across all trading products without fragmenting your balances or giving up your ability to hold other positions.
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How Backpack's Prediction Markets Work

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We cross-margin and cross-collateralize everything in a single subaccount balance: spot trading, spot-margin trading, crypto borrow-lending, perpetual futures, prediction markets, crypto, and fiat.
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This isn't a wrapper over Kalshi, Polymarket, or any other prediction market platform. This is a Backpack-native crypto trading system with everything tokenized and risk-profiled together. You can quote on a price prediction, get filled, and immediately hedge on the perp — all in one margin account on the Backpack crypto exchange.
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Everything you expect from a modern crypto exchange at scale is now available for predictions: connections to every blockchain network, including Solana and Ethereum, perpetual futures trading, world-class fiat rails, and advanced order types like TP/SL, scaled orders, conditional orders, TWAP, and grid bots.
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What This Unlocks for Crypto Traders

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With the Unified Prediction Portfolio, new crypto trades, better liquidity, and insurance-related use cases all become possible. Capital efficiency meets prediction markets for the first time. These are things you can only do in a vertically integrated, unified crypto exchange fully focused on crypto and finance.
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How to Get Access to Backpack Prediction Markets

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We're starting with the basics — ensuring the unified portfolio works as expected and that our risk engine is running smoothly. Over time, we'll grow the beta group, add more features, scale the number of prediction markets, and build out new trading mechanisms that have never been introduced.
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To get access, sign up for Backpack Exchange. Connect your Backpack wallet or create an account to start trading. We're sending out invites to our most active crypto traders starting today and over the next few months as we take in feedback and ensure a smooth experience for all beta testers.
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The Future of Crypto Trading on Backpack

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2026 is going to be big for Backpack Exchange. We're not only rolling out new products like prediction markets (and much more), but after two years of nonstop effort, we're completing our global regulatory roadmap. This will open new regions with new users, expanding Backpack crypto exchange from 48% of the world today to the entire globe.
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Although Season 4 is coming to an end, 2026 will be full of events as we hit these milestones and grow our crypto trading community.
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Now back to work. 

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