Trueo prediction market moves from Base to Ethereum

Trueo, a prediction market platform that debuted on the Base layer-2 in March 2025, disclosed plans to migrate its services to Ethereum mainnet. The team said the initial Base deployment made sense when it launched because Ethereum gas fees were relatively high and some application features were experimental. However, Trueo now views Ethereum as offering greater integration opportunities and product potential. The project highlighted its intention to focus on attracting liquidity and rolling out the next generation of its oracle after completing the migration. Trueo described the oracle as the mechanism that verifies real-world outcomes used to settle prediction markets, and framed the mainnet as a better fit for a system that aims to be widely adopted, permissionless and highly credible. A co-founder who posts under the name "Lumberg" on X argued that Ethereum is the best chain for what the team calls a "credibly neutral and truthful oracle system and prediction markets." In its public statements, Trueo said that while Base limited integrations to the immediate ecosystem, Ethereum's broader composability opens up more product upside. On-chain metrics show Trueo is among the smaller prediction markets by value: DefiLlama ranks it 14th with a total value locked of $795,687. The migration underscores a broader strategic choice developers face between launching on lower-cost L2 environments and moving to mainnet for expanded integration and interoperability.