Lubit, a pioneer in energy price forecasting markets, has been selected among the top 100 startups of Paris Blockchain Week 2026, highlighting the growing recognition of its innovative approach at the intersection of energy markets and blockchain technology.
Interested parties can contact Lubit by telegram through the @lubit_markets account and by joining the company’s official TG channel.
The selection highlights Lubit’s emergence as a key innovator addressing one of the energy sector’s most enduring challenges: reliable pricing in increasingly volatile and data-rich markets.
Kris Ewald, CEO of Lubit, also recently gave a presentation at EcoSummit Berlin 2026, titled “Energy Price Forecasting Market,” which explored a new paradigm for forecasting and trading in global energy markets.
Lubit is preparing to launch a dedicated marketplace for predictive energy markets, introducing a new paradigm for generating and using forecasts. While traditional prediction markets have largely focused on discrete, one-off events, such as elections or sports scores, Lubit applies the model to continuous, repeatable forecast environments. In doing so, it transforms prediction markets into a permanent information aggregation mechanism.
The platform will leverage market dynamics to aggregate signals from traders’ models into a single forward-looking price prediction. This approach allows for a more adaptive and responsive form of pricing, particularly valuable in electricity markets where conditions change rapidly.
Lubit launches with daily electricity price forecasts, creating a competitive environment in which participants are rewarded for the accuracy of their forecasts. Traders take their forecasts to the market, where they are adjusted at fixed intervals, for example every hour.
By linking incentives to forecast performance, Lubit aims for the market to generate signals more robust than those produced by any individual model or analyst. The result is a system in which market consensus emerges not from opinion but from the measurable predictive success of traders.
At its core, Lubit aims to democratize participation in energy markets, traditionally reserved for well-capitalized institutions. The very few existing synthetic energy trading instruments often exceed the size of their underlying markets, but remain inaccessible to most participants due to high collateral requirements, complex contractual frameworks and clearing house constraints.
Lubit removes these barriers by allowing participation based on analytical capacity rather than capital intensity. The platform eliminates the need for cumbersome collateral, bilateral agreements and specialized certifications, opening the market to a wider range of contributors, including independent analysts, data scientists and algorithmic traders.
As energy markets become increasingly complex and decentralized technologies continue to mature, Lubit represents a new class of infrastructure designed to bridge the gap between market data, incentives and outcomes.
“Our recognition at Paris Blockchain Week 2026 reflects a broader shift toward platforms that rethink how markets themselves are structured,” said Lubit CEO and economist Kris Ewald. “We look forward to continuing this momentum throughout 2026.”
Over time, the platform plans to expand beyond electricity pricing to volume forecasting and other energy sectors.
The company’s public debut follows a successful global angel investment round and coincides with the announcement of a €5 million pre-seed funding round. Proceeds will support international expansion, with a focus on technology development, regulatory compliance and strategic partnerships.
The following video gives a glimpse of Lubit in action.
About Lubit
Lubit is a Swiss FinTech that licenses its software to independent regional operators, with the aim of becoming the global pioneer of compliant predictive energy market infrastructure. The company is the first to use multi-participant forecasts of recurring energy prices (and subsequent volumes) that are not tied to any energy or commodity options trading. Lubit has invested heavily in cutting-edge IT architecture – its core asset, and in full compliance, launching it in Europe via a licensed partnership regulated by MiFID.
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