FIFA’s 48-team World Cup defies expectations with record-breaking group stage

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The World Cup knockout stage is not the same tournament as the group stage. The bracket concentrates everything — volume, stakes, and attention — onto fewer matches, and several markets settle under rules that are easy to miss if you carried group-stage habits into the last eight.

Polymarket emerged as an onboarding layer for about 60% of World Cup bettors, who interacted with the blockchain for the first time during their prediction market entry.