London, March 11, 2026 – Hecto, an emerging blockchain platform, has launched an innovative prediction market that allows ordinary users to participate in forecasting the future value of private tech giants with valuations exceeding $100 billion, such as SpaceX and OpenAI. Traditionally, equity in these high-value, non-public companies has been limited to institutional or accredited investors. Hecto, through a decentralized mechanism, offers the public a new way to gain exposure.
Users need to exchange the Canton network's native token, $CC, at a ratio of 1:100 for the platform's exclusive token, $HECTO, to participate in predictions. The platform will only include "hectocorn"-level companies with valuations exceeding $100 billion, ensuring that the underlying assets have sufficient market influence and transparency requirements.
At the end of each prediction cycle, the system will distribute rewards based on the accuracy of participants' predictions and generate aggregated market sentiment signals, filling the long-standing gap in valuation information for private companies. These prediction data not only reflect market consensus but will also provide a key pricing basis for future tokenized private equity indices.
Hecto's long-term goal is to use the funds raised through the early prediction phase to purchase pre-IPO shares of these unlisted companies, ultimately building a digital securities index backed by real assets. Users, while participating in predictions, are also gradually accumulating asset equity that they can actually hold in the future.
The platform runs on the Canton network and aims to verify whether its underlying technical architecture can support the future demand for large-scale real asset tokenization. As the governance mechanism gradually improves, the $HECTO token will be used for protocol decisions, promoting the formation of a decentralized governance structure. This model marks a key step from "prediction" to "participating in ownership," injecting more liquidity and transparency into the private market.