Why Stream Became the Infrastructure Behind 80% of Prediction Markets

Prediction markets are experiencing rapid growth driven by major sporting events, elections, and breaking news, with leading platforms recording billions of dollars in trading volume and millions of new users. Stream reports that it powers chat and moderation for roughly 80% of the industry, supporting more than 20 million monthly messages and peak loads exceeding 120,000 concurrent group-channel connections during recent World Cup and NBA events. The company attributes its adoption to globally scalable messaging infrastructure, low-latency performance, ready-made engagement features such as threads and media sharing, and AI-based moderation that evaluates conversational context to detect spam, abuse, hate speech, and other harmful content without substantially disrupting discussion. As prediction markets face recurring internet-scale traffic surges, Stream positions its services as a way for platforms to maintain responsive, safe user experiences without building real-time communication systems internally.

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