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Crypto.com is best known for crypto trading, but it also lets you trade on sports outcomes, just not the way a sportsbook does. Its sports event contracts are federally regulated financial instruments, where you buy a Yes or No position on what will happen in a game rather than placing a bet against a house. … Read more
The headline is big: IG Group, a UK trading giant, has agreed to buy Underdog for up to $1.3 billion. For the many people who actually use Underdog Predictions, though, the more useful question is what the deal changes for them day to day. The short answer is that little changes immediately, while the deal … Read more
DraftKings built its name as a sportsbook, but its newest product is not a sportsbook at all. DraftKings Predictions is a CFTC-regulated prediction market, launched in late 2025, that lets users trade event contracts on real-world outcomes instead of betting against a house. Its biggest advantage is reach, since it operates in states where DraftKings … Read more
Novig set out to fix the thing sports bettors resent most about sportsbooks: the vig. It built a commission-free, peer-to-peer exchange where you trade sports outcomes directly against other users instead of a house, and it has since pivoted through a sweepstakes model into a CFTC-regulated prediction market. What separates it from Kalshi and Polymarket … Read more
Arizona went further against Kalshi than any other state, filing actual criminal charges rather than the cease-and-desist letters or civil suits used elsewhere. It did not hold. A federal court blocked the prosecution, siding with the federal commodities regulator, and Arizona’s case stalled before it could reach a trial. But a later appeals-court ruling in … Read more
ClubGG has become one of the most talked-about names in club-based poker, largely because of who built it. In 2021, the GGPoker network, recognized as the world’s largest poker site, entered the poker application market with its own development called ClubGG, a free application that competes with established players like PPPoker and PokerBros. The app … Read more
