Rocket, a crypto app experimenting with what it calls “redistribution markets,” just pulled in $1.5 million in pre-seed funding.

This raise puts Rocket alongside a handful of other young crypto startups that managed to land early-stage funding as the year wrapped up. Investors clearly haven’t lost their appetite for novel ideas in the space, even as token prices bounce all over the place and sentiment keeps shifting. Electric Capital led Rocket’s round, with Amber, Bodhi Ventures, Jsquare, Ludlow, and Tangent also jumping in. A few angel investors joined, too, bringing experience from all corners of crypto trading, liquidity management, and building out market infrastructure.

Rocket’s building on MegaETH and is incubated by MegaMafia, which ties it into a bigger ecosystem focused on fast, on-chain financial apps. This setup lets Rocket design products that need quick trades and active, continuous markets. Rocket wasn’t the only one pulling in money. Investors also threw their support behind decentralised exchanges, perpetual trading platforms, crypto payment systems, and projects built around AI. Some companies landed even bigger checks. Architect, an infrastructure startup, raised $35 million in its Series A, while digital bank Kontigo picked up $20 million at seed.

Rocket’s $1.5 million might look tiny next to those numbers. Still, it says something important: investors haven’t lost their appetite for early-stage teams willing to rethink the way markets work, instead of just making small tweaks to old ideas.

Prediction Markets with a Twist

Rocket isn’t just another prediction market; it’s trying something different. Where most platforms stick to simple yes-or-no questions with fixed end dates, Rocket lets people trade around the clock, using live price feeds that reflect what’s happening right now. On Rocket, you’re not limited to a narrow list of events. You can take positions on all sorts of assets and signals: cryptocurrencies, stocks, NFTs, even internet memes, or odds pulled from other prediction sites. And you’re not locked into your choices. If prices shift, you can update your position on the fly. There’s no need to wait for a final settlement; trading keeps going as the market moves.

One thing that really sets Rocket apart is how it handles payouts. On most prediction platforms, your maximum return gets locked in as soon as you place your bet, no matter how much the market changes after that. Rocket doesn’t cap your potential profit (or loss) like that. Instead, it uses a redistribution model: as prices move, value flows between traders with opposing views. The further your position drifts from market consensus, the more you stand to gain or lose. When the market swings hard, so does the redistribution. Rocket says this approach rewards skill and feels much closer to real financial markets, where prices and risk are always in motion.

Rocket isn’t trying to replace classic prediction markets. The company sees its platform as something that works alongside them, a new tool for a new kind of trader. By blending continuous price discovery with trading driven by information and sentiment, Rocket captures a bigger trend in crypto: financial products that don’t fit neatly into old categories. These new markets land somewhere between forecasting and live trading, giving users more ways to participate, more flexibility, and a chance to react in real time instead of waiting for a single moment of truth.