World Attention Markets

Today, narratives on the internet drive markets, culture, and crypto speculation. However, there is no way to trade a trend itself. Traders must rely on proxy assets like memecoins or related tokens, which often capture narrative momentum inefficiently.
World Attention Markets solves this by creating markets where users can go long or short a topic’s attention level.
Instead of speculating on tokens around a narrative, traders can take positions on the narrative directly. Markets settle against an Attention Index that represents the level of attention a topic receives across the internet.
By turning narrative momentum into a tradable primitive, World Attention Markets introduces a new form of exposure: the ability to trade attention itself.

The system has three main components: smart contracts, a Chainlink CRE workflow, and a frontend interface.
The smart contracts are written in Solidity using Foundry. Each topic has its own market and oracle contract. Markets are fully collateralized and issue long and short position tokens that represent exposure to a topic’s attention level.
The offchain computation is orchestrated using Chainlink CRE. A CRE workflow periodically fetches attention signals from multiple external sources (Google Trends, Twitter and Youtube), aggregates them into a weighted score, smooths the result using an exponential moving average (EMA), and produces an updated Attention Index. The workflow then submits a report onchain that updates the oracle and advances the market settlement cycle.
The frontend is built with Next.js and React, using wagmi and viem for wallet connectivity and contract interactions. It allows users to create new markets, open long or short positions, and monitor the live Attention Index and market state.