The 2025 MLB season has been a rollercoaster, and the World Series promises to deliver all the excitement of a championship showdown, with the LA Dodgers lining up against the Toronto Blue Jays. 

Now, the dYdX community is bringing a new way to experience the upcoming 2025 World Series with prediction market-based perpetuals, the first of its kind for the World Series. Trade on which team will take home the trophy and turn your baseball insights into trades.

What Are Prediction Market-Based Perpetuals? 

Prediction market perpetuals are derivatives that let you gain financial exposure to the outcome of real-world events like sports, elections, or pop culture moments. For the World Series Perpetual, the question is simple: Will the LA Dodgers win or lose the 2025 World Series? Market prices reflect the perceived odds: if your prediction wins, your position settles at $1; if they lose, it drops to near zero. 

Why Trade the World Series on dYdX?

Prediction-market based perpetuals give traders a different toolkit than traditional fantasy sports or betting apps:

• Perpetual Leverage Trading: Take advantage of up to 5x leverage to amplify capital efficiency and choose your preferred exposure to the 2025 World Series result.
• Advanced Risk Management: Use tools like stop-loss and take-profit orders to protect your positions and manage potential risks in this premiere sporting event. 
• Real-Time Settlement: The market is pegged to settle based on the outcome of the World Series, providing a clear and transparent way to trade on narrative-driven events.

How to Join the Action

Getting started is simple:

1. Visit dYdX: Head straight to the 2025 World Series Perpetual market on dYdX or Pocket Pro Bot on Telegram and search “DODGERSWIN-USD” under Markets. 
2. Connect Your Wallet: Fund instantly with USDC to start trading ($100+ deposits are free and instant). 
3. Place Your Bets: Go long on DODGERSWIN-USD if you expect Shohei Ohtani and the LA Dodgers to win. Go short on DODGERSWIN-USD if you expect them to lose.

Prediction markets can experience rapid fluctuations around the time of settlement as the event’s outcome becomes known, and traders should understand the role of auto-deleveraging (which can reduce profits on the winning side to offset liquidated accounts that would otherwise go negative) and other contract loss mechanisms in perpetuals markets. Learn more about prediction market-based perpetuals here.

Why It Matters

In October 2024, the dYdX community launched its first-ever prediction market perpetual with the Presidential election, and is now bringing it to the 2025 World Series. Looking ahead to the rest of Q4, our goal is to empower the dYdX community to expand prediction-market-based perpetuals across a wide range of events including sports championships, global elections, and any real-world moments that can be traded.

We are democratizing financial opportunity, giving you the chance to trade not just markets, but the real-world events that truly matter.