Robinhood CEO Says Crypto Will Overtake Sports in Prediction Markets

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Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev told Jim Cramer on Mad Money that crypto contracts already take a disproportionate share of Robinhood's prediction markets business and that within a few years sports will actually be in the minority. Robinhood's event-contract revenue jumped more than tenfold year over year to $156 million in the second quarter, making it the company's fastest-growing business line, while contracts traded 4.7 billion times in August, roughly 15 times the year-earlier volume. The business now rests on three legs: Robinhood launched on top of Kalshi, then added Rothera, its own CFTC-licensed joint venture with Susquehanna, and this month took minority stakes in Crypto.com and its prediction-market spinoff OG.com to add a third partner to clear and settle trades. Tenev's crypto-over-sports bet also moves the mix away from the legally contested category, after the Ninth Circuit ruled last month that Nevada can regulate Kalshi's sports contracts, splitting with the Third Circuit, and New Jersey asked the Supreme Court to settle it. He pointed to the Clarity Act as an example of what users can trade, noting that prediction markets called the bill's failure before the Senate did, with Polymarket odds falling from 35% to 11% ahead of the vote.

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Robinhood's event-contract revenue jumped more than tenfold YoY to $156M in Q2, its fastest-growing business line, with 4.7B contracts traded in August.

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