Linera and Fliq Partner to Advance Real Time Prediction Markets and Perpetuals Infrastructure
Linera is partnering with Fliq to focus on building next generation prediction markets on real time infrastructure. This collaboration brings together Linera’s microchain architecture and Fliq’s expertise in market design, execution models, and derivative structures. It marks a significant step as we begin work on the future of both spot and perpetual prediction markets.
Fliq, backed by Y Combinator and Franklin Templeton, is building a creator owned prediction market platform that makes it simple for anyone to launch markets and trade opinions that matter. Through their derivatives engine, EthosX, the team is exploring how perpetual positions can sit on top of prediction markets to expand expressiveness, liquidity depth, and market sophistication.
A Design Partnership Focused on Technical Progress
The collaboration is structured around a shared goal: developing prediction market systems that operate in real time, scale predictably, and support more advanced trading mechanics than what exists today.
"Prediction markets present a surprising number of unresolved challenges, from how to structure perpetual opinion markets to how to design fair settlement and efficient liquidity models. Partnering with Linera gives us the ability to explore these problems more deeply with a team thinking carefully about real time execution and new architectural possibilities. There is still a lot ahead of us to discover.” — Fliq
The partnership will explore the technical requirements for both spot and perpetual prediction markets on Linera. This includes execution models that rely on low latency, new approaches to market settlement, data pathways for high frequency price updates, and how deeper liquidity modules can be built on top of creator generated markets.
"Real time infrastructure unlocks new design space for prediction markets by making low latency execution, parallel scaling, and predictable responsiveness possible. These capabilities can support richer market structures and a smoother trading environment for builders exploring new approaches. We look forward to collaborating with Fliq as we investigate the future of prediction markets.” — Mathieu Baudet, Founder and CEO of Linera
What the Partnership Will Explore
The exploration will focus on a set of shared technical challenges that limit prediction markets today and determine what is possible on a real time chain.
Key areas include:
Execution models for spot and perpetual prediction markets that require predictable low latency
Improved settlement architecture for fast resolution and state updates
Liquidity pathways that allow deeper capital efficiency across creator launched markets
Data and oracle design optimized for high update frequency environments
Composability between prediction markets and synthetic or leveraged modules
Tools that make it easier for developers to launch markets with richer trading mechanics
By aligning engineering teams around these core problems, the partnership aims to accelerate the development of prediction markets that operate closer to how information actually moves.
Why Linera
Prediction markets need infrastructure that can operate at the pace of information. Our vision is to build the best possible foundation for advancing the state of the art in prediction markets, including new forms of spot and perpetual markets that rely on speed, responsiveness, and predictable performance.
Linera provides this through an architecture designed for real time execution. At the core of this design are microchains, which are lightweight chains assigned to individual users or applications. They allow each application to scale independently and process activity in parallel. This keeps latency consistently low and ensures markets remain responsive even during peak activity.
For teams exploring new prediction market primitives, this creates space to experiment with deeper liquidity models, dynamic pricing curves, and leveraged or synthetic structures that depend on fast feedback loops between data and execution.
What Comes Next
Fliq and Linera will begin a structured exploration across engineering, product design, and ecosystem integration. This includes technical reviews, prototype evaluations, and ongoing work to determine the optimal implementation path for both spot and perpetual prediction markets on Linera.
The goal of the design partnership is simple: define the next generation of prediction market primitives and build them on infrastructure that can support their full potential.
About Fliq
Fliq is a creator owned prediction market platform that lets anyone launch markets and trade opinions that matter. Through EthosX, their derivatives engine, the team is developing new forms of perpetual and leveraged prediction markets. Backed by Y Combinator and Franklin Templeton.
Website: fliq.one
Telegram: t.me/fliqone
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/fliqone
About Linera
Linera is the real time blockchain. It introduces microchains, a new architecture that brings predictable low latency and linear scaling to applications. Linera enables developers to build secure onchain applications without limits.
Website: linera.io
X: @linera_io
Discord: discord.gg/linera
GitHub: github.com/linera-io
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/linera-io
