Sportsbooks are taking your cut. PRED is building the exchange that cuts them out - Crypto Coin Show

Sportsbooks are taking your cut. PRED is building the exchange that cuts them out - Crypto Coin Show

From Crypto Coin Show by Crypto Coin Show

May 17, 2026 · 29 min

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The episode discusses how PRED's peer-to-peer sports prediction exchange eliminates the bookmaker's margin and changes the betting landscape.

Sports bettors lose to the bookmaker before the game even starts. The house sets the lines, pockets the margin, and decides who gets to play — and most people have no idea how much that spread is actually costing them. PRED is a peer-to-peer sports prediction exchange built on Base that removes the middleman entirely. We sit down with the team behind PRED to break down how a decentralized sports prediction exchange works, why betting peer-to-peer changes the economics for bettors, and what it takes to build a regulated, on-chain alternative to the sportsbook model. From how PRED's matching engine works to the role of liquidity providers and what PRED token holders actually get, this is a practical look at what sports betting looks like when the house no longer has an edge. You'll learn: - Why sportsbooks are structurally designed to take a margin on every bet — and how much it costs the average bettor over time - How PRED's peer-to-peer exchange model works and what it means to bet directly against other users - What building a sports prediction exchange on Base (Coinbase's Layer-2) changes about accessibility, cost, and settlement speed - How liquidity works on a decentralized…

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