Prediction Markets and Event-Based Finance

Torram unlocks a new category of event-driven applications on Bitcoin. These include both prediction markets—which enable participants to speculate on future outcomes—and automated insurance products, where smart contracts trigger payouts based on predefined conditions.

Prediction markets allow users to trade on the likelihood of real-world events—whether in politics, economics, or sports—with market prices reflecting the collective belief about how likely those outcomes are to occur. Torram’s oracles deliver real-time external data such as sports statistics, election results, and macroeconomic indicators, serving as the resolution layer that verifies outcomes and triggers settlement. Given Bitcoin’s L1 transaction costs, these markets are best suited for high-value use cases such as high-stakes sports betting platforms, event-driven derivatives, and financial forecasting and sentiment markets.

Decentralized insurance and reinsurance is another emerging category of event-based finance. Products such as weather-based insurance, catastrophe bonds, and reinsurance contracts can be automated via smart contracts triggered by external data. Torram’s oracle network provides the secure and trustless infrastructure to power these contracts, enabling real-time verification of insurable events.

As a trillion-dollar market underserved by existing blockchain solutions, decentralized insurance and reinsurance represents a compelling use case for Bitcoin’s security guarantees.