Perpetuals Rolls Out UpsideOnly With AI-Driven Market Prediction Model

CryptoProwl

Tue, May 19, 2026 at 10:59 AM EDT 2 min read

Perpetuals.com Ltd. (NASDAQ: $PDC) launched UpsideOnly on Tuesday, adding a consumer prediction platform to its AI trading push as the company tries to turn retail market calls into a public-market business line.

The San Francisco-based fintech company said UpsideOnly lets users make predictions across stocks, crypto, commodities, forex and other global markets without placing their own trades. Instead, the platform uses Perpetual’s capital when its BayesShield AI decides a prediction has a strong probability of success, then shares any profit with the user whose call helped shape the trade.

Perpetuals is positioning UpsideOnly as a lower-friction way for retail users to participate in market calls without funding the trades themselves. The company is still trying to extract usable signal from a broad base of human predictions, with BayesShield trained on more than 22 billion executed retail trades and layered with crowd intelligence.

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CEO Patrick Gruhn framed the launch as a response to retail trading platforms that he said are designed to profit when users lose. “The user brings the insight, we bring the capital, and we win together,” Gruhn said.

UpsideOnly does not require a deposit to make predictions, though users who place a refundable deposit of at least $1 can receive higher payouts. Perpetuals said the deposit is not used for trading and is held in U.S. Treasury bills through an external fiduciary account.

The launch pushes Perpetuals further into the overlap between AI, trading infrastructure and prediction markets, where financial platforms are looking for ways to turn user behaviour into real-time market data. UpsideOnly is not limited to crypto, but digital assets sit inside the broader set of markets where users can make calls.

The company is still careful about how it defines the risk. Users do not lose money on unsuccessful platform trades, but Perpetuals said that does not eliminate operational and other risks associated with the product.

Perpetuals.com Ltd. (NASDAQ: PDC) is currently trading at $6.93 U.S. per share.