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TRUSTBYTES
Techstars '25Warszawa, PL · Founded 2024 · 8 employees on LinkedIn · 1 known investors
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Trustbytes operates hivy, a platform that allows users to trade on prediction markets covering elections, macro events, sports, and other real-world outcomes, while abstracting away cryptocurrency complexity. The company also produces media content and hosts events to advance the mainstream adoption of internet capital markets.
Also known as Trustbytes · TrustBytes
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Company profile
researched Sep 2026TRUSTBYTES positions itself as an umbrella company for three properties in the prediction-markets category: hivy, a consumer application for trading on real-world event outcomes; the ICM Show, a media programme featuring founders and builders working on what the company calls Internet Capital Markets; and the Global Prediction Markets Summit, an in-person event for the ecosystem hosted by CEO Jonas Surmann. The company defines Internet Capital Markets as financial markets brought onchain, open continuously and permissionlessly, with prediction markets as one component.
hivy, described as the flagship product, lets users trade on markets spanning elections, macroeconomics and interest rates, sports, technology and AI, culture, and crypto. Its stated features include copy-trading, where users mirror the positions of forecasters with established track records in a single tap, and embedded wallets with on-chain settlement intended to remove the need for users to handle crypto directly. The next edition of the Summit is listed on the company site as having dates to be announced.
Business model
The company combines a consumer trading application (hivy) with owned media (the ICM Show, distributed on YouTube) and a recurring conference (the Global Prediction Markets Summit), using the media and event properties to build category awareness around the app.
Traction
The company reports a team distributed across six countries and a headcount in the 1-10 range, and states participation in Techstars Web3 '25.
Latest developments
The company's site promotes hivy as its flagship consumer app and notes that the next edition of the Global Prediction Markets Summit is scheduled but with dates not yet announced.
▸Full profile — market position, technology, go-to-market, geography, history
Market position
An early-stage, pre-seed company presenting itself as bringing prediction markets and Internet Capital Markets to a mainstream audience by combining product, media and events under one brand.
Rather than operating only an exchange-style app, the company pairs the product with a media show and a category conference; within hivy, the emphasis is on copy-trading proven forecasters and abstracting away crypto friction via embedded wallets.
Technology
hivy uses embedded wallets and on-chain settlement so that users can trade event markets without directly managing crypto infrastructure, and offers a copy-trading mechanism that mirrors selected forecasters' positions. The CTO leads engineering and on-chain infrastructure. A public GitHub organisation under the TRUSTBYTES name hosts a small number of repositories in Solidity, TypeScript and HTML, including example smart contracts and a hackathon backend.
Go-to-market
Direct consumer distribution of the hivy mobile and web app, supported by content marketing through the ICM Show on YouTube and by convening the ecosystem at the Global Prediction Markets Summit.
Retail users interested in trading real-world outcomes, including forecasters seeking skill-based markets, plus founders, traders and builders in the prediction-markets ecosystem who form the audience for the ICM Show and the Summit.
Geography
Headquartered in Poland, with a team spread across six countries; a Techstars job-board listing associates the company with San Francisco and Warsaw locations.
Compiled by commissioned research from 5 cited public sources — announcements, filings, and press listed under research sources below.
Key figures
latest reportedCompany-reported or press-reported figures, each dated to when it was claimed — not independently audited.
Timeline · 1
launches, deals, and filingsTRUSTBYTES states it went through the Techstars Web3 '25 programme and is backed by Techstars.
Dated company events from announcements, filings, and press; legal rows summarize public dockets and regulator releases.
▸Research sources · 5
primary sources listed
- TRUSTBYTEStrustbytes.io · web
5 public sources were cited for this profile; the first-party ones are listed here.
Frequently asked questions
- What does TRUSTBYTES do?
- TRUSTBYTES is a Polish startup building hivy, a prediction-markets app, alongside a media show and an industry summit.
- Who are TRUSTBYTES's investors?
- TRUSTBYTES's investors include Techstars.
- Where is TRUSTBYTES headquartered?
- TRUSTBYTES is headquartered in Warszawa, PL.