Ovanti Secures Exclusive Global Partnership With Prediction Market Yuno.trade

Ovanti secures exclusive global partnership with prediction market platform Yuno.trade

Ovanti Limited (ASX: OVT) has entered an exclusive partnership agreement with prediction market platform Yuno.trade, positioning the company at the infrastructure layer of one of the fastest-emerging categories in digital markets. Founded by two ex-Binance executives and leading traders from competitor Polymarket, Yuno.trade is positioning itself as a major competitor to industry leaders Polymarket and Kalashi in a sector that has scaled to approximately US$24 billion in combined monthly trading volume as of April 2026.

The partnership establishes three core pillars: OVT will serve as Yuno.trade’s exclusive global payment processor, provide embedded technology infrastructure through its wholly owned operating businesses iSentric and Datamorph, and support the launch of a licensed prediction market platform in Southeast Asia and Central Asia leveraging OVT’s Labuan Digital Commercial Banking Licence. The 4-year exclusive agreement includes an option to renew for an additional 4-year term subject to performance milestones aligned with the scale and operating profile of leading global platforms.

For OVT shareholders, the partnership provides exposure to the prediction market sector through payments, settlement and technology infrastructure without operating the consumer-facing platform. Revenue is expected to scale with Yuno.trade’s growth in users, trading volumes and market activity across high-frequency event-based markets covering politics, sport, macroeconomics, digital assets, technology, entertainment and geopolitics.

What is a prediction market and why investors should pay attention

Prediction markets are platforms where users trade on the outcome of real-world events across multiple categories including politics, sport, macroeconomics, digital assets, technology, entertainment and geopolitics. Unlike traditional betting, these platforms offer defined-risk outcomes with transparent odds that reflect real-time probability assessments based on aggregated participant views.

The sector has moved from niche adoption to a significant digital market category, creating infrastructure revenue opportunities for payment and technology providers positioned at the transaction layer. Prediction markets generate probability-based data that serves as alternative signals to supplement polling, research and traditional market indicators, attracting institutional interest alongside retail participation.

For infrastructure providers, the investment thesis centres on transaction-linked revenue models that scale with platform growth without direct exposure to consumer platform operating risk. As high-frequency trading activity increases across multiple event categories operating 24/7, the payments, settlement, authentication and reconciliation layer captures recurring revenue from every deposit, withdrawal, wallet funding operation and settlement flow processed through the system.

The scale of the prediction market opportunity

The prediction market sector has experienced rapid expansion, with public data demonstrating a nearly fivefold volume increase from September 2025 to April 2026. Yuno.trade is positioning to compete with established industry leaders Polymarket and Kalashi in this high-growth market.

This growth reflects increasing demand for real-time, event-based markets that provide continuous engagement opportunities across multiple outcome categories. Transaction-linked revenue models scale with sector growth, positioning OVT’s infrastructure revenue opportunity to expand in line with Yuno.trade’s trading volumes and platform activity.

Three pillars of the Ovanti-Yuno.trade partnership

The Partnership Agreement establishes a multi-layered infrastructure and service relationship designed to support Yuno.trade’s platform operations whilst creating diverse revenue streams for OVT:

1. Exclusive Global Payment Processor
   OVT will serve as Yuno.trade’s exclusive global payment processor for all transactions covering key markets, including user deposits, withdrawals, wallet funding, payment routing and settlement flows. This provides direct exposure to every financial transaction processed through the platform.

2. Embedded Technology Infrastructure Partner
   Through its wholly owned operating businesses iSentric and Datamorph, OVT will support core operating systems including transaction orchestration, funds-flow infrastructure, settlement, ledgering, reconciliation, reporting, authentication, risk controls, fraud monitoring, API connectivity and operational automation. This creates service-based revenue alongside transaction-linked fees.

The iSentric-powered SuperApp announced in March 2026 illustrated how OVT has been building out its technology stack across payments, digital banking and multi-currency infrastructure, providing the operational backbone that now underpins the Yuno.trade partnership arrangement.

3. Licensed Prediction Market Launch in Southeast Asia and Central Asia
   Yuno.trade has been granted access to OVT’s Labuan Digital Commercial Banking Licence and infrastructure. The parties will work together to launch a licensed, regulated prediction market platform leveraging OVT’s regional banking relationships including Standard Chartered Bank, delivering institutional-grade payments, settlement and operating infrastructure to a high-growth, underserved market.

The multi-layered structure establishes both transaction volume revenue and technology service fees, with the licensing component providing a regulatory advantage in markets where incumbent global platforms have limited presence.

Why Southeast Asia and Central Asia present a compelling launch market

Southeast Asia provides structural growth characteristics that support prediction market adoption. The region has a population of approximately 700 million, with a digital economy expected to exceed US$300 billion in GMV in 2025 according to the Google, Temasek and Bain e-Conomy SEA 2025 report. More than 60% of payments are now digital, reflecting widespread consumer adoption of mobile-first financial infrastructure.

The region remains underserved by incumbent global platforms including Polymarket and Kalashi, creating a first-mover opportunity for a regulated, bank-integrated solution. Key structural growth drivers supporting the launch strategy include:

• Consumer adoption of trading apps, digital wallets and real-time market interfaces
• Growing fintech-native and crypto-native user base comfortable with continuous digital markets
• 24/7 event cycles across multiple categories
• Demand for probability-based data and alternative signals to supplement polling and research
• Expansion of event contracts across sport, culture, macroeconomic data, elections, digital assets and business outcomes
• Gamified engagement through leaderboards, rewards, profiles, squads and social trading communities
• Positioning to enable users and companies to create their own markets with regulatory oversight

OVT’s more than decade-long track record supporting major banking institutions across Asia, including Standard Chartered Bank through its iSentric and Datamorph businesses, provides established regional relationships that support the delivery of institutional-grade infrastructure. The Labuan Digital Commercial Banking Licence offers a regulatory framework for operating a compliant prediction market platform in jurisdictions where licensing remains a material barrier to entry.

Near-term catalyst: 2026 FIFA World Cup

Major global events such as the 2026 FIFA World Cup create concentrated periods of real-time user engagement, rapidly moving probabilities and high-frequency event-based trading. Platforms capitalise on these events through markets linked to match outcomes, tournament progression, team performance and related cultural or commercial outcomes, supporting user acquisition, repeat engagement and transaction activity.

This is particularly relevant for Yuno.trade’s Southeast Asia and Central Asia strategy, where global football events drive broad consumer participation across mobile-first, digital-wallet-enabled markets. The World Cup provides a near-term catalyst for demonstrating platform capabilities and onboarding users who may subsequently engage with markets across other event categories.

OVT’s revenue model and shareholder exposure

The Partnership Agreement establishes a transaction-linked and service-based revenue model that scales with Yuno.trade’s growth in users, trading volumes and market activity. OVT is positioned to generate revenue from high-frequency platform activity across multiple infrastructure layers:

• User deposits and withdrawals
• Wallet funding and payment routing
• Settlement flows and reconciliation
• Authentication and risk controls
• API connectivity and operational automation
• Transaction orchestration and funds-flow infrastructure
• Ledgering, reporting and fraud monitoring

As platform engagement increases across real-time event-based markets operating 24/7, OVT’s infrastructure processes every payment, settlement and authentication transaction, creating recurring revenue opportunities. This provides shareholders with exposure to the growth of the prediction market sector through the payments, settlement and technology infrastructure layer, whilst Yuno.trade remains responsible for operating the consumer-facing prediction market platform and associated user acquisition, platform development and market creation activities.

Chairman’s perspective on the partnership

Daler Fayziev, Chairman and Global CEO

“This partnership places Ovanti at the infrastructure layer of one of the fastest-emerging categories in digital markets. By combining Yuno.trade’s prediction market platform with Ovanti’s Labuan Commecial Banking Licence and infrastructure as well as Ovanti’s payment processing capability and technology through our wholly owned operating businesses iSentric and Datamorph, we believe Ovanti is uniquely positioned to support and monetise high-frequency event-based market activity across Southeast Asia and Central Asia. Major global events such as the 2026 FIFA World Cup highlight the scale of the opportunity, creating concentrated periods of real-time engagement, rapidly moving probabilities and transaction activity. This partnership gives Ovanti a material new growth pathway through payments, settlement, authentication and transaction infrastructure, while Yuno.trade operates the consumer-facing prediction market platform.”

What comes next for Ovanti

The 4-year exclusive partnership with 4-year renewal option subject to performance milestones establishes a long-term revenue framework aligned with Yuno.trade’s scaling trajectory. Commercial milestones are aligned with the scale and operating profile of leading global prediction market platforms, creating performance alignment between OVT’s infrastructure revenue and Yuno.trade’s platform success.

Initial focus centres on the Southeast Asia and Central Asia launch leveraging the Labuan Digital Commercial Banking Licence and OVT’s existing banking relationships through iSentric and Datamorph. The regional positioning supports the delivery of a regulated, bank-integrated prediction market platform with institutional-grade payments, settlement and operating infrastructure in markets where incumbent global platforms have limited presence.

Performance-linked renewal creates direct alignment between OVT shareholder value and Yuno.trade’s achievement of scale, user growth and transaction volume milestones consistent with the operating profile of leading global competitors Polymarket and Kalashi.

For investors exploring the full picture of OVT’s capital markets positioning, our detailed coverage of OVT’s NASDAQ listing ambitions outlines the valuation targets and strategic rationale behind the company’s decision to pursue larger listing opportunities, providing useful context for evaluating how the Yuno.trade partnership fits within the company’s longer-term growth trajectory.

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