Predict with Polymarket brings prediction markets directly into Telegram. A user can open a mini-app, connect a TON wallet, fund the account with USDT on TON, and participate in markets on World Cup outcomes without leaving the Telegram environment.
For STON.fi, this launch is more than a new consumer app. It is a real-world example of what Omniston is becoming: a cross-chain execution layer that helps TON users interact with applications beyond TON without manually handling bridges, EVM wallets, gas tokens, or multi-step transfers.
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What Predict brings to Telegram
Predict with Polymarket is a Telegram-native prediction market app focused on football, crypto, politics, and pop culture markets.
Users can participate in markets tied to match results using USDT on TON, directly inside a mini-app. The experience is designed for the way users already interact with Telegram: open the app, connect a TON wallet, fund the account, and take a position in a few taps.
Unlike traditional bookmaker-style services, prediction markets are peer-to-peer. Users trade positions with each other, and prices are shaped by market supply and demand. A position can be entered or exited while the market is still live, which means users do not necessarily have to wait until the final whistle to react to new information.
For users, the basic idea is simple: turn knowledge, opinion, and timing into a market position without leaving Telegram.
The problem: prediction markets usually live outside TON
A TON user may already hold USDT on TON and use Telegram daily. But many prediction market applications operate in EVM environments.
Polymarket’s infrastructure lives in the EVM ecosystem. A TON user cannot simply arrive with a TON wallet and USDT on TON and immediately start trading. Traditionally, the journey involves:
- setting up an EVM-compatible wallet,
- moving assets across chains,
- obtaining the correct gas token,
- and funding the account on the destination network.
That is a lot to ask from a user who simply wants to participate in a prediction market. Omniston removes these steps from the user journey.
Instead of asking users to bridge assets manually, manage multiple wallets, and coordinate transactions across networks, Omniston creates and executes a cross-chain order behind the scenes.
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From TON wallet to prediction market
Here is the simplified user journey.
The user opens Predict with Polymarket in Telegram and connects a TON wallet through TON Connect. After that the user can access the application experience without manually setting up the EVM side.
Then the user chooses a deposit amount in USDT.
At this point, Omniston creates a cross-chain order between two parts of the same user journey:
USDT on TON
and
the required trading balance in the prediction market environment
When the user confirms the transaction, Omniston executes the cross-chain flow. The result is that the funds appear where they are needed for taking positions, already in the right environment and asset format.
For the user, this is one funding flow inside a Telegram-native app.
What Omniston does here
Omniston’s role is to turn a technically fragmented process into one execution flow.
The user starts on TON with USDT. The destination is an application that depends on EVM-compatible infrastructure. Omniston coordinates the movement between these environments so the user does not need to manually deal with bridges, external wallets, or network-specific steps.
This is the direction of Omniston’s newer architecture. Omniston supports cross-chain scenarios where a user signs an order and resolvers fulfill it across networks under defined conditions. Resolvers are network participants that execute these orders, moving assets between ecosystems and ensuring the user receives the expected outcome according to the agreed terms.
In Predict, this means the user focuses on the outcome: funding the account and opening positions. Omniston handles the path.
What about withdrawals and transaction fees?
Moving funds back from the prediction market account to TON normally requires the network’s native gas token to authorize and submit the transfer.
Omniston removes this obstacle through its gasless settlement model. When a user wants to withdraw funds back to TON, they sign an order instead of submitting a gas-paying transaction themselves. The resolver executes the order, covers the transaction fee, and completes the transfer according to the signed instructions.
This is what gasless UX means in practice. The fees do not disappear from the system, but users no longer need to acquire and manage a separate gas token simply to move their funds back to TON.
Why it matters
Predict + Omniston combination offers an interesting balance: settlement inherits the security guarantees of established EVM infrastructure while giving TON users access through a faster and more familiar Telegram-native experience.
- For users. Predict gives TON users access to prediction markets without forcing them to leave the environment they already know. They avoid the usual cross-chain friction: manual bridges and separate wallet setup.
- For builders. Predict demonstrates that applications do not have to rebuild fully on TON to reach TON users. Instead, Omniston can connect TON wallets and TON liquidity to external application environments on other chains. This expands what builders can offer without forcing every app to become native to every chain.
- For TON ecosystem. Historically, users had to move to applications. Increasingly, applications can reach users where they already are. Predict shows what happens when a major Web3 product meets TON users through Telegram, USDT on TON, and Omniston-powered execution. TON users gain access to applications beyond TON. External applications gain a path to TON users. The protocol handles the complexity between them.
In short
Predict with Polymarket brings prediction markets into Telegram. Omniston makes the experience possible for TON users by turning funding and withdrawal into cross-chain execution flows instead of manual bridge workflows. The user sees a simple Telegram mini-app. Under the hood, Omniston connects the rails.
Predict is only one example. The broader significance is that Omniston can connect users on one blockchain with applications running on another blockchain. Prediction markets happen to be the first visible case. The same architecture can be applied wherever users and applications live on different networks.
