Silicon Valley VC firm a16z-backed Gensyn has launched Delphi, a decentralized information markets platform that uses AI to settle market outcomes. The company said the product is built to let creators launch niche markets, earn fees from trading activity, and keep control over the questions they bring to users.
Gensyn described Delphi as a separate category from prediction markets. The company said, “These are not prediction markets, they are information markets.” It added that once a market goes live, no centralized party controls it, while revenue goes to the creator automatically in USDC after settlement.
Meanwhile, the launch gives Gensyn a flagship product tied directly to its decentralized AI infrastructure network. Delphi runs on Gensyn’s Layer 2 network on Ethereum using the OP Stack.
The company said the platform is meant to support both human users and AI systems in trading around specialized information. Gensyn co-founder and chief executive Ben Fielding said the company is not trying to compete directly with larger prediction market platforms on the same types of contracts.
“Delphi isn’t directly competing with Polymarket and Kalshi for the same markets,” he told The Block.
He added that the aim is to open a category of creator-owned markets that larger platforms would not usually build.
Delphi uses AI models to settle market outcomes
Gensyn said Delphi settles markets through AI rather than through a centralized operator or internal decision-maker. Fielding said market creators choose an AI model before launch, and the model’s weights are fixed at that stage so they cannot change after the market goes live.
The company said anyone can rerun the reasoning process used to settle a market. Gensyn said this is possible through its “reproducible execution environment” technology, which is designed to produce identical outputs across different hardware systems, including GPUs, CPUs, and data centers.
“Using REE, machine learning decisions can be fully audited and verified,” Fielding noted
Gensyn said the use of “verifiable intelligent oracles, not insiders” is a core part of the Delphi model. That structure is designed to reduce the role of centralized control in deciding how markets resolve.
The company presented this feature as a key difference between Delphi and existing platforms where a central entity may still play a role in listing markets, resolving disputes, or limiting who can take part.
The platform has already recorded “millions” in trading volume during its testnet phase, according to Gensyn. That testnet period started in December 2025.
The company said Delphi is launching with an invite-only model for creators, while trading is open to all users. Fielding added that Gensyn expects a mainnet launch in the coming weeks as the creator whitelist expands.
How Delphi makes money
Gensyn said Delphi gives creators a direct share of trading activity if their markets settle successfully. Fielding told The Block that a creator earns 1.5 percent of total volume in a market as a fee after settlement. He said that the fee acts as payment for asking a useful question that attracts trading based on real information.
Participants in the market can earn returns when their information proves correct, while they lose their stake if the information behind their trade is wrong. Gensyn said this model is intended to reward both valuable questions and accurate signals from market users.
The protocol also applies a 0.5 percent fee on all volume. Fielding said this fee will be used to buy Gensyn’s native AI token and burn part of it. The token has not launched yet, and Fielding declined to give a timeline for that release. He said the mechanism is meant to support value accrual across the broader Gensyn network.
Fielding also said the platform’s early market design does not rely on outside market makers to balance liquidity. For more complex market types, he said Gensyn is already in talks with liquidity providers.
According to the company, the 1.5 percent fee paid in USDC should help attract creators by offering what it called a real revenue stream instead of a simple engagement feature.
Gensyn positions Delphi against major market platforms
Gensyn said existing prediction market platforms such as Polymarket and Kalshi still depend on centralized decisions in important areas. The company said these platforms determine which markets go live, how outcomes are resolved, and who can participate.
Moreover, it also argued that creators who bring niche knowledge to those platforms often do not receive payment for the value they help generate. Fielding said Gensyn wants Delphi to serve markets that would sit outside the focus of larger platforms.
“The strategy is to open up an entirely new category of niche, creator-owned markets that those platforms would never build. The long tail is the point,” he said.
That approach places more attention on specialized communities and smaller topics rather than on mass-market events alone.
Gensyn has support from investors including a16z crypto, Galaxy Digital, and CoinFund. The company said it has raised more than $78 million since its founding in 2020.
Fielding said the Gensyn Foundation raised $16.14 million in commitments and $11.7 million in proceeds after refunds through an AI token sale in December. Additionally, Gensyn raised $16.7 million in an October venture round led by a16z crypto at a $1 billion fully diluted valuation, after a $43 million Series A round in 2023.
Lastly, the launch of Delphi comes as activity in decentralized market platforms and AI-linked crypto products continues to grow. Gensyn said the long-term goal is to build an open system where AI models and human users exchange information in public markets.