Opinion: Could CZ be behind the new prediction market?
A new Web3 prediction market platform, Opinion Labs (O.LAB), may have links to Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao. The project seems positioned to rival Polymarket, and Zhao’s October 23 pardon appears to have cleared all the legal hurdles for his latest ventures.
Opinion’s public footprint has grown in recent months: the team runs the @opinionlabsxyz account on X, has shipped a prediction front end branded O.LAB, and has pitched itself as a “decentralized infrastructure for prediction markets and oracles,” including an optimistic-oracle and order-book trading flow. Backing from Binance Labs (rebranded as YZi Labs) fuels the community narrative linking the effort to CZ.
The competitive target is obvious. Polymarket is the current Web3 liquidity magnet for event markets, while Kalshi holds the U.S. regulated lane; most “alternatives” studies now bucket Opinion as the Web3-native up-and-comer that wants to pull retail and crypto-native flow with fee sharing and fast market creation. Opinion’s site and listings advertise one-minute market spins, fee splits for creators, and a path to run on high-throughput chains, positioning for depth where retail speculation lives.
The competitive target is obvious. Polymarket is the current Web3 liquidity magnet for event markets, while Kalshi holds the U.S. regulated lane; most “alternatives” studies now bucket Opinion as the Web3-native up-and-comer that wants to pull retail and crypto-native flow with fee sharing and fast market creation. Opinion’s site and listings advertise one-minute market spins, fee splits for creators, and a path to run on high-throughput chains, positioning for depth where retail speculation lives.
The “CZ angle” is what’s new. With Trump's pardon secured, traders argue the door is open for CZ to advise or seed projects again, at least outside the constraints that followed his 2023 plea and 2024 sentence. CZ pardon could be tied to warmer policy toward crypto and noted prior business ties between Trump-world ventures and Binance-adjacent capital.
On October 23, 2025 – the same day President Trump pardoned Binance founder Changpeng “CZ” Zhao – Opinion announced its mainnet was live on BNB Chain, opening trading to a whitelist cohort and rolling out rebate and points systems. The launch posts came from the project’s X account and were echoed by BNB Chain–focused outlets summarizing the go-live.
On October 23, 2025 – the same day President Trump pardoned Binance founder Changpeng “CZ” Zhao – Opinion announced its mainnet was live on BNB Chain, opening trading to a whitelist cohort and rolling out rebate and points systems. The launch posts came from the project’s X account and were echoed by BNB Chain–focused outlets summarizing the go-live.
What the project actually claims is more grounded. Opinion bills itself as a full-spectrum prediction market with an “optimistic” dispute process and a bonded-data resolution flow, rather than a single-venue app. Public materials reference a CLOB-style trading design and oracle staking to validate outcomes. Marketing pages and posts also highlight rapid market creation and “agent-ready” tooling for builders, suggesting a platform play rather than a single exchange front end.
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Sebile Fane cut her teeth in blockchain by building tiny NFT experiments with friends in her living room, long before the buzzwords took hold. She’s driven by a curiosity for the human stories behind smart contracts — whether it’s a small-town artist minting her first token or a DAO voting on climate grants — and weaves technical insight with genuine empathy.
