Triad

Triad Markets (also Triadmarkets, and once Triad at triadfi.co) is a prediction market on Solana. You buy YES or NO shares on real events with USDC. When the event ends, the winning side gets paid. It has no link to TriadFi, a hackathon trading bot with a similar name.

Triad Markets is built for Brazil. You can bet on Big Brother Brasil, Brazilian football and the 2026 election, as well as crypto, F1 and esports. You can sign up with email or Google, so you don't need a crypto wallet. Its TRIAD token replaced the old TRD token and pays holders from buybacks.

How Triad Markets works: shares, prices and payouts

A Triad Markets share is a bet on one outcome, priced between $0.10 and $0.99. The price doubles as the crowd's odds: a share at $0.70 implies about a 70% chance, according to the docs. When the market resolves, the winning side is paid from what the losing side put in, and smart contracts on Solana handle the settlement.

Say you think Palmeiras will win the league and YES trades at $0.66. You pay 66 cents a share plus fees. If Palmeiras wins, each share pays out. If they lose, you lose your stake. You can also sell before the result if the price moves your way.

Resolution is less automatic than the word "smart contract" suggests. Triad's terms of service say markets resolve from official public sources, and that Triad itself decides when sources disagree. Triad can also close a market and refund stakes if reliable information never arrives.

Triad Fast Markets: 15-minute BTC, ETH and SOL predictions

Fast Markets are 15-minute rounds on whether Bitcoin, Ether or SOL will be above or below a price. Each round restarts on its own when the last one ends. The result comes from the Pyth Network PYTH$0.080+10.0% price at the exact moment the round closes, per the Fast Markets docs.

This is the closest thing Triad has to a trading product. You pick YES or NO, wait a quarter of an hour, and winnings are sent automatically. The docs say payouts are processed within 24 hours of resolution, so the money may not land the moment the round ends. Brazilian press coverage in 2025 described one-hour crypto rounds, so the round length has shortened since then.

Triad Pre-Markets, XP levels and monthly rewards

Pre-Markets let you take a position for free before a market goes live. You scroll a vertical feed of questions, much like Instagram Reels, and pick a side at no cost. When the market launches, your free position becomes a live one, and you can deposit to back it, per the Pre-Market docs.

Every bet also earns XP, or points. A win earns extra XP, and so does adding cash to a market. XP raises your level. Your level, how often you play and how often you win make up your Score.

A bonus from 1x to 8x rewards daily play over the past 30 days. It starts to fall after 14 quiet days and hits 1x after 30. Each month, rewards are split by Score times bonus, per the levels and score docs. The design pays people who show up every day. That helps Triad more than it helps a casual user.

Triad Markets fees

Triad Markets charges 5% each time you buy or sell most shares. Near-certain shares cost less to trade, and winners pay a small fee on profit only. The fees page listed these rates in October 2026:

The main trading fee is the one to plan around. On a 100 USDC bet, about 5 USDC goes to fees. If you sell before the end, you pay the fee again. That is fine for one bet on a football final. It adds up fast if you trade Fast Markets all day.

If you refer friends, you earn a share of the trading fees they pay, sent in USDC, per the affiliate docs.

How to sign up and deposit on Triad Markets

You can join Triad Markets with email or Google, or with a Solana wallet. Email sign-up makes a wallet for you. It runs on Phantom CASH$1.000-0.1% tech and is locked with a PIN. Crypto users can link Phantom, Solflare or Backpack instead, per the First Access docs.

The steps are short:

1. Sign up with email or Google, or connect a wallet.
2. Fund the account with USDC on Solana, for example by withdrawing from Binance or Coinbase on the Solana network.
3. Keep a little SOL for network fees, usually under $0.01 a transaction.
4. To cash out, enter a Solana address and amount under Withdraw.

The deposits page lists only USDC on Solana. In July 2025, BNL Data reported that users in Brazil could pay in and out by Pix. The docs no longer mention Pix, so check the app first.

Triad Markets in Brazil: BBB, Brasileirão and election markets

Brazil is Triad Markets' home and the source of most of its markets. In October 2026 you could bet on the presidential election, the Série A football title and who leaves the Big Brother Brasil house. In October 2025 Triad ran a market on who killed Odete Roitman in the TV show "Vale Tudo", BNL Data reported.

CEO Davi Cardoso says Triad goes where the big players are not. He told Cointelegraph Brasil that Triad picks markets Polymarket and Kalshi do not offer. He also said Triad earns only from fees and does not profit when users lose. A bookmaker, by contrast, takes the other side of your bet.

Triad says more than 70% of its users are new to crypto, per its Coinranking profile. That number comes from Triad, and we have not seen it checked.

Is Triad Markets safe and legit?

Triad Markets is a real, working app run by a registered company, but it has risks. Its terms name TRIAD MARKETS LIMITED, a British Virgin Islands company, as the operator. They say Triad does not hold your funds or bet against you. We found no public security audit. The Triad Labs GitHub has no contract code, and the contract addresses are not published. So we could not check who is able to change the contracts.

The biggest question for users in Brazil is the law. In April 2026, Brazil's monetary council passed Resolution CMN 5.298/2026. From May it bans offering bets in Brazil on sports, politics, elections, culture or TV, even from abroad.

The government then blocked a list of sites, including Polymarket and Kalshi. Triad Markets was not on the list Teletime published. Still, its election, football and BBB markets are the kind the rule names. Its terms bar US users but not Brazilians.

Other risks to know:

• Resolution leans on Triad's judgment when sources conflict, and Triad can close a market with a refund.
• Email accounts depend on an embedded wallet and a PIN, so account security is only as good as your email and PIN.
• Fast Markets depend on a single Pyth price at one moment, so a brief price spike at the close decides the round.
• The TRIAD token is small and thinly traded. Check the live price and liquidity on this page before buying any.

Who Triad Markets is for

Triad Markets suits Portuguese speakers who want to bet small sums on Brazilian football, politics and TV. It works well if you have never used a crypto wallet. Email sign-up, free Pre-Markets and the swipe feed make it an easy first step onto Solana.

It fits less well if you trade often. The 5% fee takes a big slice of each buy and sell. Its terms shut out US users. If you live in Brazil, check how the April 2026 ban on event bets affects you before you deposit. For big global markets on politics or the economy, Polymarket and Kalshi have far more money behind each price.

Triad Markets vs Polymarket, Kalshi and other alternatives

Triad Markets wins on Brazilian markets and easy sign-up. The big sites win on size and range. Polymarket and Kalshi list far more markets on world news, the economy and US sports. Triad lists markets they don't, like BBB, in Portuguese.

Kalshi markets also reach Solana as tokens through DFlow, which we covered at Breakpoint 2025. Our prediction markets page shows how to trade Polymarket and Kalshi on Solana with an AI agent. Trepa, another Solana app from the same Superteam Demo Day, pays more the closer your guess lands. See its pitch.

TRIAD token: tokenomics, buybacks and the TRD migration

TRIAD is Triad Markets' token, with a fixed supply of 1 billion on Solana. It replaced the original TRD token. A migration pool of 100 million TRIAD covers legacy holders at a 1:7 ratio, per the tokenomics page, which also lists the new mint address.

Triad calls its model "Real Yield": there are no inflationary emissions. The docs say 80% of platform revenue goes to a buyback contract. Half of the bought tokens are burned and half go to holders who lock TRIAD in "Earn Mode". In October 2026 the docs put that revenue at about $24,000 a month.

The allocation, per the docs:

Holding TRIAD unlocks VIP tiers from Bronze to Platinum, with up to 200% higher betting limits. The project's Coinranking listing also mentions cashback rewards and governance for holders.

Triad Markets team, funding and history

Triad Markets is run by CEO Davi Cardoso and built by a team from Brazil. It started at a hackathon in Greece, per BNL Data. Cointelegraph Brasil reported a $400,000 first funding round in March 2024. It named KAST founder Raagulan Pathy as an adviser.

Milestones reported in the press:

• July 2025: Triad launched in Brazil, reporting R$50 million transacted over five months and 8,000 users across the US, Nigeria and Brazil (BNL Data).
• October 2025: BNL Data put the user count at 13,000.
• December 2025: Cardoso pitched Triad at Superteam Demo Day during Breakpoint 2025, describing chain parlays as a planned feature (our recording).

The brand moved from triadfi.co to triadmarkets.app, and the old website and docs now redirect there. The token migrated from TRD to TRIAD in the same rebrand.