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This year, FIFA is providing an AI agent that any team can use. Is it enough to level the playing field or will future winners be determined by which team can afford the best tools?
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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.
