World Markets is a fully onchain decentralized exchange that combines spot trading, perpetual futures, and lending under a unified cross-margin risk engine on MegaETH, an Ethereum Layer 2. World Markets's Twitter Score is 76 out of 1000 (a Good rating) as of September 2026, ranking #10,593 (top 5%) among 490,686 tracked accounts.
World Markets was founded by Kevin Coons and co-founded by Lucas, and the protocol publicly launched on MegaETH on February 18, 2026, going live from the network's first day on mainnet. MegaETH has described World Markets as its liquidity backbone, with the protocol running in beta across spot markets, undercollateralized lending, and perpetuals. World Markets is backed by MegaMafia.
World Markets operates without a protocol backend, meaning its user interface communicates directly with the blockchain, and the onchain protocol can continue functioning even if the standard website frontend becomes unavailable. Positions across all three product types serve as collateral through the ATLAS portfolio-level risk engine, enabling unified cross-margining. For perpetual-futures settlement and liquidation triggers, the protocol relies on RedStone as its primary oracle on MegaETH.
World Markets denominates all markets in USDM, the native stablecoin of MegaETH, though the protocol states it neither controls USDM issuance nor its price. The protocol documentation openly discloses smart-contract, oracle, liquidity, regulatory, network, and frontend-access risks. World Markets has published 75 posts and has been mentioned by 36 accounts a total of 67 times, reflecting active engagement within the MegaETH ecosystem. World Markets has 9,834 followers as of September 2026 on the platform.
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The accounts that follow World Markets include 223 founders, 84 angel investors, 157 influencers and 4 VCs. Among its notable followers are Laura Shin, Smolting Wassie, Andre Cronje, Tarun Chitra, Vance Spencer and Frank.