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About Breakout
Breakout launched on Base on January 27, 2026, introducing weekly prediction markets for Crypto Twitter creator mindshare. The platform's first markets opened with $30,000+ in seeded liquidity, allowing non-US users to trade binary yes/no positions on whether top-20 KOLs' social influence would rise or fall week-over-week. This marked the first structured, rules-based market formalizing social attention as a tradable asset class onchain, with automated weekly snapshots and transparent settlement. Its decision to launch exclusively outside the US, while leveraging Base's low fees and gas abstraction, signaled a regulatory-conscious approach to prediction markets—distinguishing it from US-focused platforms and positioning it as a global, compliance-first experiment in InfoFi.
Alex Masmej is the Founder & CEO of Breakout (breakout.app). He is French and graduated from Alliance Manchester Business School. In 2020, he launched a personal token $ALEX, raised ~$20K, and moved to San Francisco, starting his startup journey. He previously founded short-video social app Drakula and operated consumer crypto apps like Showtime, generating ~$3M revenue in 2024-2025; in 2021 he raised $8M for Showtime from Paradigm, Dragonfly, among others. He is also a Solo GP at Round Pegs Capital.
Beyond Alex Masmej, no reliable public information is available on other co-founders or core executives.