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Robinhood’s investment in Crypto.com and OG.com signals the mainstream broker’s pivot toward prediction markets as a core revenue driver, expanding beyond its blockchain network fees into tokenized event contracts ahead of the 2024 U.S. election cycle. For institutional traders, the deal underscores how traditional brokerages are now actively competing with pure-play prediction-market platforms like Kalshi and Polymarket for market share in an asset class that has grown tenfold year-over-year.
Robinhood Markets has agreed to list yes-or-no event contracts from Crypto.com on its retail trading platform, while acquiring minority ownership stakes in both the exchange and OG.com, its recently spun-off prediction-markets subsidiary, according to reporting on the multi-year deal. The investment amount was not disclosed, though Citadel Securities valued Crypto.com at $15 billion and OG.com at $5 billion in a separate investment round last month. Robinhood will begin offering OG.com contracts to its users on September 8, positioning the broker to capture additional volume ahead of the fall election season and football season betting surge.
Robinhood’s prediction-markets business has become a material revenue driver faster than traditional trading desks anticipated. The broker generated $156 million from event contracts in the second quarter of 2024, a more-than-tenfold increase from the same period a year earlier, while overall net revenue for the quarter reached $1.31 billion, a 32% increase year-over-year.
Event contracts themselves hit a trading record of 13.6 billion contracts, also up more than tenfold annually, signaling rapid adoption among retail participants.
The scale of this growth has attracted institutional capital and major competitors. Combined trading volume on Kalshi and Polymarket, the two largest dedicated prediction-market platforms, has surpassed $130 billion annually, and major technology companies including Meta, along with established sportsbooks like FanDuel and DraftKings, are now moving into the space.
This convergence of retail brokers, pure-play platforms, and traditional media and sports operators has created a fragmented but rapidly expanding market in which Robinhood’s scale advantage, its existing retail customer base and brand trust, offers a distinct edge.
Robinhood’s proprietary blockchain, launched earlier this year, has emerged as one of the highest-grossing networks in crypto, with on-chain tracker EmberCN reporting $42.58 million in total revenue (17,171 ETH) over its first 70 days, an average of roughly $608,000 per day. At peak periods, the network has generated $4.01 million in daily fees, rivaling or exceeding networks like Ethereum in total fee capture. Robinhood retains approximately 90% of the network’s fee revenue, with Arbitrum, the underlying technology provider, receiving the remainder.
Tokenized stocks have become the primary driver of blockchain activity, now accounting for roughly 27% of on-chain volume. Analysts at Bernstein maintained an “Outperform” rating on Robinhood stock and raised their 2028 price target for annual platform fees to $160 million, up from their previous estimate of $130 million.
However, tokenized-stock products have drawn regulatory and corporate scrutiny, AMC Entertainment CEO Adam Aron has publicly called Robinhood’s AMC-linked tokens “outrageous” and stated they carry no affiliation with the company, but Robinhood has declined to remove them from its platform.
Crypto.com CEO Kris Marszalek has signaled the exchange is moving toward an initial public offering, though no timeline has been established.
The Robinhood stake acquisition, combined with Citadel Securities’ recent valuation round, signals continued institutional interest in the platform despite a regulatory environment that remains uncertain for both prediction markets and tokenized equity products.
The spinoff of OG.com as a standalone entity follows similar industry trends toward separating higher-velocity trading venues from core exchange infrastructure.
Robinhood’s market launch of OG.com contracts on September 8 will be the first real test of whether the broker’s retail customer acquisition power can meaningfully shift volume away from Kalshi and Polymarket. Watch whether tokenized-stock trading expands beyond AMC and how aggressively Meta, FanDuel, and DraftKings pursue their own prediction-market offerings; the intensity of that competition, combined with any regulatory action on tokenized securities, will determine whether Robinhood’s blockchain network sustains its current fee capture over the next two quarters.
The XYO ecosystem just took another major step onto the institutional stage. Both $XL1 and $XYO are now listed by Crypto.com — bringing institutional-grade custody and deep liquidity to the two tokens at the heart of everything XYO builds.
Powers the network’s operations, incentivizing nodes to securely gather and validate real-world location and geospatial data.
The utility token of the XYO Layer One blockchain — powering transactions, gas fees, and core network infrastructure.
Crypto.com will provide institutional-grade custody and liquidity solutions for both tokens through Crypto.com Custody — a regulated infrastructure that includes cold storage with enhanced security, transparent audit trails, and streamlined compliance processes. Institutional clients gain immediate access to Crypto.com’s deep liquidity pool for fast, reliable, and cost-efficient conversions.
Trusted by millions of users worldwide, Crypto.com is an industry leader in regulatory compliance, security, and privacy — giving builders and enterprises confidence in the foundation they’re building on.
Crypto.com valuation after recent institutional round
Funding raised with Citadel Securities participation
Year XYO began building its proof infrastructure
The timing is significant. Crypto.com recently achieved a $20 billion valuation during an institutional funding round of $400 million with Citadel Securities. The move has been widely seen as evidence of the growing interest in digital assets from traditional finance institutions — and XYO is now positioned squarely alongside those players.
For XYO, this partnership builds on a relationship that goes back years.
“We’ve had a great relationship with Crypto.com since listing XYO on their exchange, and expanding into custody for XL1 and XYO together is a natural next step. As we build out infrastructure for AI, robotics, and decentralized machine intelligence, having our digital assets XYO and XL1 backed by enterprise-grade security is essential. Working with one of the most trusted names in the industry positions XYO alongside the institutional players shaping what comes next, and gives builders and enterprises confidence in the foundation they’re building on.”
— Markus Levin, Co-Founder, XYO
XYO has been building since 2018, delivering the proof infrastructure that powers geospatial, robotics, AI, and decentralized compute applications — operating one of the largest consumer DePIN networks in production. Institutional-grade custody for XYO and XL1 strengthens that foundation and signals where the network is headed next.
With Crypto.com Custody now safeguarding both tokens, institutions have a secure and compliant way to hold and manage the assets behind verifiable real-world data at scale.
Eligible institutions and high-net-worth clients can submit a custody inquiry, or learn more about the XYO and XL1 tokens.
Crypto.com secured $400 million in funding from Citadel Securities at a $20 billion valuation, signaling major institutional backing for the exchange and its expansion into tokenized assets and derivatives. The investment represents a watershed moment for mainstream finance’s integration with cryptocurrency infrastructure, directly relevant to institutional investors evaluating crypto market maturation and custody-grade platforms.
Crypto.com announced a transformational $400 million strategic investment from Citadel Securities, a decision that positions one of the industry’s largest exchanges as a primary vehicle for institutional capital entering digital asset markets.
The ten-year-old platform, which operates a user base in the tens of millions, reached a $20 billion post-money valuation following the round, a threshold typically reserved for mature fintech infrastructure in traditional markets.
The investment signals Citadel Securities’ formal commitment to cryptocurrency market infrastructure at a time when institutional adoption remains fragmented across exchanges, custodians, and settlement layers.
The timing underscores a shift in how tier-one trading and market-making firms evaluate cryptocurrency exposure. Citadel Securities, which executes trillions in equities and options annually and holds significant influence in traditional market structure, does not make platform investments lightly.
The decision to back Crypto.com rather than build proprietary infrastructure or acquire a niche player suggests the firm views the exchange’s existing regulatory footprint, technological stack, and user economics as strategically superior to alternatives.
For institutional investors and asset managers evaluating which platforms will ultimately consolidate the custody, trading, and settlement layers, the Citadel endorsement carries material weight.
Jim Esposito, President of Citadel Securities, framed the investment around institutional readiness rather than speculative upside. He noted that Crypto.com had built a “foundation to support the continued institutionalization of the digital asset market,” language that echoes how traditional finance evaluates critical infrastructure plays.
Esposito’s emphasis on the “convergence of traditional financial organizations and cryptocurrency infrastructure” reflects a specific institutional thesis: that profitable growth in crypto will come not from retail adoption or token speculation, but from integrating digital assets into the existing mechanics of 24/7 global finance.
This framing matters because it reveals how Citadel Securities itself now conceptualizes the market opportunity. Rather than viewing crypto as a distinct asset class requiring specialized platforms, the firm appears to be betting that the future winner will be the exchange capable of servicing both cryptocurrency and traditional asset trading from a single operational entity.
Crypto.com’s stated ambition to expand into tokenized securities and derivatives aligns precisely with that thesis. Institutional investors monitoring platform consolidation should view this investment as early evidence that major market-making firms expect digital asset infrastructure to function as a superset of traditional market infrastructure rather than as a silo.
Kris Marszalek, Crypto.com’s co-founder and CEO, positioned the funding as validation of the company’s decade-long regulatory build-out. He stated: “Having built the right regulatory and tech infrastructure over the last decade, Crypto.com is now perfectly positioned to capture this new wave of growth across all asset classes.”
The size of the opportunity in front of us is staggering, as crypto increasingly becomes the rails for finance.
Kris Marszalek, Co-founder and CEO, Crypto.com
The statement reflects Marszalek’s confidence that compliance and licensing work undertaken years ago, when such efforts were not fashionable among crypto-native founders, now positions the exchange to capture institutional capital without rebuilding infrastructure. This has direct implications for how institutional investors should evaluate platform risk.
Exchanges that prioritized regulatory approval over growth velocity during the 2017-2021 bull market may now hold structural advantages in accessing institutional capital that cannot easily migrate between platforms.
The investment announcement explicitly linked the capital raise to expansion into tokenized securities and derivatives markets, categories where Crypto.com currently maintains limited scale compared to centralized exchanges in Asia and retail-focused platforms in the United States.
The stated goal is to create “a more efficient 24/7 financial ecosystem” that bridges traditional market hours with continuous cryptocurrency trading. For institutional investors, this roadmap signals an attempt to capture flow in multiple asset classes from a single operational venue, reducing counterparty risk and settlement complexity.
Tokenized securities represent the most strategically significant category in this expansion. Unlike derivatives, which already exist across multiple platforms, tokenized equities and bonds remain immature as a market.
The major public blockchains have not yet achieved the regulatory clarity necessary for institutional-scale issuance, and most trades in tokenized securities continue to occur on proprietary or permissioned networks.
Crypto.com’s capital and Citadel Securities’ market-making expertise could materially accelerate adoption if the exchange can secure the regulatory frameworks required to list and settle tokenized assets alongside its existing cryptocurrency offerings.
Derivatives expansion, by contrast, addresses an existing market segment where Crypto.com trails competitors like Binance and FTX (prior to its collapse) in notional volume.
The $400 million capital injection provides runway to hire market-making teams, build matching engines optimized for lower-latency derivatives trading, and establish the risk management infrastructure required to scale leverage-based products responsibly.
Citadel Securities’ participation suggests the firm intends to serve as a primary market maker on the platform, lending credibility to retail and institutional traders evaluating counterparty exposure.
CRO surged approximately 25% in the hours following the announcement, climbing from $0.056 to $0.07 before consolidating above $0.06.
The price movement reflects market sentiment regarding institutional endorsement but masks the token’s structural valuation context. CRO remains down 93% from its all-time high of $0.89, set nearly five years ago. That drawdown exceeds the peak-to-trough decline of Bitcoin and Ethereum during the 2022 bear market, suggesting the token has underperformed the broader market across multiple cycles.
Institutional investors evaluating Crypto.com as a platform investment should distinguish between the exchange’s operational and regulatory value, which the Citadel funding validations, and the utility or appreciation potential of its native token.
The token’s original utility included fee discounts on the Crypto.com platform and staking rewards on the exchange’s proprietary blockchain layer. Neither mechanism has driven sustained demand relative to competitor tokens, and the 93% drawdown suggests the market does not anticipate meaningful upside from either channel.
The price surge following the funding announcement appears motivated by retail traders interpreting the Citadel investment as a fundamental validation of the platform, rather than by any announced changes to CRO’s tokenomics or utility. Institutional investors should evaluate the platform’s value proposition independently from token price action.
The Citadel Securities investment succeeds only if regulators permit Crypto.com to operate derivatives and tokenized securities markets from a unified platform without establishing separate legal entities or custody arrangements for each asset class.
Current regulatory frameworks in the United States and European Union maintain clear separations between cryptocurrency exchanges and securities trading venues, requiring separate licenses and compliance teams.
Crypto.com has made progress securing regional licenses, but a unified global platform offering both asset classes simultaneously remains a regulatory frontier rather than established practice.
The company’s decade-long regulatory build-out, which Marsz
High Roller Technologies, a publicly traded Las Vegas casino operator, is launching U.S. prediction markets through a partnership with Crypto.com’s derivatives arm, positioning itself to capture a slice of an industry analysts project could reach $1 trillion in annual U.S. trading volume. The deal marks a critical test of whether traditional gambling operators can establish regulatory footholds in crypto derivatives while competitors like Kalshi and Polymarket attract billions in venture capital.
High Roller Technologies, the publicly traded operator of the High Roller and Fruta casino brands, has signed an agreement with Crypto.com’s derivatives subsidiary CDNA to launch regulated prediction markets targeting U.S. customers.
The partnership will allow users to trade event-based contracts on outcomes spanning finance, sports, and entertainment through High Roller’s existing digital platform. CDNA, already registered with the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission as both a designated contract market and derivatives clearing organization, will supply the contracts and infrastructure.
High Roller plans to register as a CFTC Introducing Broker and direct customer orders to Crypto.com’s CFTC-registered Futures Commission Merchant. The structure positions both parties within established regulatory frameworks rather than operating in legal gray zones that have shadowed parts of the crypto derivatives market.
High Roller raised approximately $25 million through a direct share offering in January, selling roughly 1.9 million shares at $13.21 each. The placement, managed by ThinkEquity, closed on January 21 and provided the company with direct capital to fund marketing, expansion, product development, and operations.
This funding round, combined with the company’s January announcement that it had resolved a prior stockholders’ equity deficiency on the NYSE American, removes a significant technical obstacle to growth and signals institutional confidence in the prediction market strategy.
The casino operator’s entry into prediction markets represents a material diversification beyond its core online gaming business. High Roller CEO Seth Young said the company has spent months preparing for the launch, suggesting the Crypto.com partnership emerged from extended internal planning rather than a rushed opportunistic deal.
The company’s traditional gambling operations and existing customer base provide distribution advantages that pure-play crypto platforms do not possess, potentially allowing High Roller to reach retail users already comfortable with digital wagering but unfamiliar with cryptocurrency exchanges.
Crypto.com co-founder and CEO Kris Marszalek framed the partnership as a method to expand regulated access to prediction contracts across a differentiated and scalable offering. The casino operator’s existing infrastructure and customer acquisition channels were the primary draw for the derivatives subsidiary, rather than any novel technological capability on High Roller’s part.
Together, we believe we can expand access to regulated event contracts in the United States through a differentiated and highly scalable offering.
Kris Marszalek, co-founder and CEO of Crypto.com
The partnership agreement designates Crypto.com and its affiliates as the exclusive suppliers of prediction contracts across High Roller’s entire U.S. distribution network. This arrangement locks in Crypto.com’s derivatives arm as the underlying market operator while High Roller assumes the role of customer-facing broker and platform operator.
The deal creates new revenue channels for High Roller through spreads, commissions, and fees on customer trades, potentially offsetting competitive pressures in the mature online casino market.
The prediction market space has attracted extraordinary capital velocity in recent months, driven partly by legal clarity emerging from regulatory disputes. Kalshi, a prediction market platform, reached a $22 billion valuation after closing a funding round of roughly $1 billion led by Coatue Management in early 2025.
This valuation represents a roughly 11-fold increase from the company’s $2 billion valuation less than a year prior, compressed into a nine-month period. The acceleration followed Kalshi’s May 2025 court victory against the CFTC, which granted the platform permission to offer election prediction contracts, a category the regulator had previously blocked.
That single court decision unlocked a major growth narrative for Kalshi investors, validating the business model and triggering a wave of venture backing from tier-one firms including Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia, Ark Invest, and Paradigm.
Polymarket, a rival prediction market platform, closed a $1.6 billion investment commitment from Intercontinental Exchange, the parent company of the New York Stock Exchange. ICE had initially valued Polymarket at $9 billion in October 2025 when it announced the investment commitment, which eventually reached $2 billion in total obligation.
The additional $600 million tranche brought ICE’s total deployment closer to completion, while ICE also committed to purchasing up to $40 million in Polymarket securities from existing shareholders. This institutional validation from a major U.S. exchange operator and derivatives marketplace signals that prediction markets are attracting structural capital beyond venture-stage investors.
High Roller’s entry into prediction markets through a CFTC-compliant structure reflects a broader trend of established gambling operators seeking exposure to crypto derivatives without assuming regulatory risk.
Analysts have projected that if prediction markets mature, U.S. annual trading volume could exceed $1 trillion, with global figures potentially higher. This forecast assumes significant adoption across retail and institutional users and resolution of remaining regulatory ambiguities around contract types and operator licensing.
High Roller’s partnership with Crypto.com positions the company to capture transaction volume and customer data as the market scales, while Crypto.com gains access to a distribution channel with hundreds of thousands of active gamblers.
The High Roller deal also represents a lower-risk entry strategy for traditional gambling companies compared to building prediction market infrastructure in-house. By partnering with an established crypto derivatives platform already registered with the CFTC, High Roller avoids the regulatory legwork and market development costs that pure-play entrants must absorb.
The arrangement mirrors similar partnerships between traditional finance firms and crypto platforms, where scale and regulatory compliance are outsourced to specialized operators.
High Roller plans to register as a CFTC Introducing Broker in the coming months and connect with Crypto.com’s registered Futures Commission Merchant, marking the expected operational launch window for the prediction market offering. The timing of that registration and the scope of event contracts made available in the initial launch will determine whether High Roller can compete with Kalshi and Polymarket, which have secured significantly larger funding pools and brand recognition among active prediction market traders.