FanDuel Predicts Brings in Crypto.com as World Cup Opens New Prediction Market Window

Key Points

• FanDuel Predicts has added Crypto.com’s CFTC-regulated OG Prediction Markets as a second contract provider alongside CME Group, with new markets going live this week.
• The platform now operates in all 50 US states, offering sports contracts in 18 states where online sports betting remains unavailable, including California, Texas and Florida.
• Flutter Entertainment has committed between $250 million and $300 million in investment in FanDuel Predicts throughout 2026.

FanDuel has moved to grow its prediction markets platform at a moment many in the industry have been watching. The partnership with Crypto.com brings OG Prediction Markets into FanDuel Predicts as a second regulated contract provider, sitting alongside CME Group. CME Group had been the only market partner since FanDuel Predicts launched in December 2025.

The new contracts cover sports and entertainment. There are also combination event contracts, letting users take positions tied to more than one outcome at once. Both CME Group and OG Prediction Markets’ offerings are expected to appear this week, timed to land with the World Cup opening.

A Dual-Provider Model Takes Shape

Before this deal, FanDuel Predicts ran on one source. CME Group built the contract side, and FanDuel handled the platform and its users. Bringing Crypto.com in changes the structure entirely. Users can now access contracts from two regulated providers inside the same app, reaching a wider range of event categories than the platform has ever held since its start.

James Cooper, Senior Vice President of Flywheel and New Ventures at FanDuel, spoke with clarity on the business side: “FanDuel Predicts was built to deliver a best-in-class prediction market experience to our customers. These additional product sets give our customers more choices by expanding the breadth of sports and entertainment contracts on our platform.”

For Crypto.com, this deal brings the biggest name yet to a partner list that has been growing. The company first stepped into the gaming space through a deal with Underdog in September 2025, becoming the first major gaming-focused operator to carry its prediction market contracts. DraftKings and Fanatics came next. FanDuel now has four confirmed names on that list.

Joe Anzures, Chief Business Officer at Crypto.com, shared the thinking behind this position: “We are thrilled to partner with FanDuel Predicts to bring a new level of depth and experience to its prediction markets experience. By leveraging our robust, regulated exchange and clearinghouse infrastructure, we are enabling a mainstream prediction market experience just in time for the World Cup — underscoring our capability to deliver scalable, regulated derivatives infrastructure for the world’s biggest moments.”

A Platform Built to Reach Where Sportsbooks Cannot

Regulation is not just a background detail for FanDuel Predicts it is the foundation the whole platform sits on. FanDuel Prediction Markets LLC carries registration with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and holds membership in the National Futures Association. The platform started in five US states in December 2025 before growing to cover all 50. In 18 of those states, FanDuel does not hold a state sports betting licence yet sports contracts are already live there, including in California, Texas and Florida, where traditional online sports betting remains off the table. Crypto.com’s addition now brings more contract volume and deeper category coverage to a structure already operating in places that regular sportsbooks have not yet reached.

This geographic spread connects directly to Flutter’s wider plans. At Flutter’s first-quarter earnings call in May, CEO Peter Jackson called FanDuel Predicts revenues “modest” for that quarter, but he framed prediction markets as a chance to build a user base ahead of potential sports betting legalisation in more states. Between $250 million and $300 million has been committed to the platform across 2026 a level of spending that points to something built to last, not to test.

Shares in Flutter Entertainment on the New York Stock Exchange were 4.02 per cent higher at $115.80 on the day the deal was announced, with the market responding to the news in a way that suggested broad confidence.

World Cup Is the First Major Test

There is nothing accidental about when Crypto.com was brought in. The World Cup gives FanDuel Predicts its first big event window under a two-provider setup, and the platform goes into it with more contracts available than at any point in its history. The mix of global sporting attention, a wider range of market types and a federally regulated structure gives FanDuel Predicts a real chance to pull in users who might otherwise choose Polymarket or Kalshi.

Significant moves have been made across the prediction markets sector in the same period. Sportradar reached a partnership agreement with Kalshi, ADI Predictstreet brought a global prediction markets platform to market, and EDGE Markets closed $29.2 million in Series A funding all within weeks of each other.

Expert Analysis

This deal between FanDuel and Crypto.com carries more meaning than most partnership news. Rather than simply adding new markets, FanDuel has moved to a model where contracts come from more than one source, which reduces how much it depends on a single infrastructure partner and gives the platform the flexibility to meet demand around different event types.

Crypto.com’s position in all of this is equally logical. Four of the biggest US gaming brands now distribute through their infrastructure, and that happened within roughly a year of OG Prediction Markets going live. Because Crypto.com operates as a regulated clearinghouse rather than a competing operator, its commercial relationship with these brands becomes harder for others to displace as the sector develops.

Flutter’s spending commitment and the platform’s reach into states without legal sports betting both point away from a short-term read. Peter Jackson’s reference to “modest” Q1 revenues comes from a platform that was still in the middle of rolling out to the whole country. The real measure for 2026 is whether the World Cup and the Crypto.com contracts can turn a nationwide presence into a base of users who keep coming back.