Fanatics has stepped into the event-contract space with a new trading platform tied to sports, finance and culture. The company aims to merge fandom with regulated prediction markets through a simple, app-based interface. This launch puts the Fanatics prediction market directly into a fast-growing category of real-money event trading.

• Fanatics Markets uses Crypto.com | Derivatives North America (CDNA) for pricing and market infrastructure, enabling regulated trading on outcomes from game scores to interest-rate decisions. The launch follows Fanatics’ July acquisition of Paragon Global Markets, now operating as Fanatics Markets IB, giving the group an NFA-member introducing broker. Fanatics says this framework gives users a compliant and straightforward way to trade event contracts.

• The platform is live now in 10 states, with another 14 – including California, Texas, Florida and Washington – listed as coming soon. Phase One covers sports, finance, economics and politics, while Phase Two next year will expand into crypto, stocks/IPOs, climate and entertainment. The company frames this staged rollout as a way to scale the Fanatics prediction market responsibly as new categories open.

• Fanatics highlights consumer-protection tools such as deposit limits, session limits, timeouts and self-exclusion. Crypto.com describes the partnership as an extension of its earlier work in sports prediction markets: “We could not be more proud to be the partner of choice for Fanatics,” said Travis McGhee. Fanatics CEO Matt King added that the goal is to give fans “a safe and intuitive way to engage with the moments that move sports and culture.”

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