Published on: 31/07/2026
List of Prediction Markets: Every Platform by Category
This is a complete list of prediction markets operating in 2026 — every platform we could verify, sorted into four groups: federally regulated US apps, crypto-native and on-chain exchanges, forecasting and play-money sites, and a handful of historical platforms worth knowing about. Nothing here is ranked. There’s no #1, no medal, no verdict — just a directory you can scan by category and click through on your own terms.
Key takeaways
- This is a directory, not a ranking. Every platform below is grouped by category and listed alphabetically within it — nobody is crowned “best” here.
- Eight federally regulated platforms serve US traders in 2026, including Kalshi, Polymarket US, Robinhood, Crypto.com, FanDuel Predicts, DraftKings Predictions, PredictIt, and Coinbase’s Kalshi-powered contracts.
- Crypto-native platforms sit outside CFTC oversight, running on-chain markets settled in stablecoins or crypto rather than dollars, and most exclude US users entirely.
- Forecasting and play-money sites carry no real-money risk. Metaculus and Manifold Markets track prediction accuracy, not payouts.
- Not every platform on a list like this survives. Intrade and Augur show what happens when regulation, liquidity, or both run out.
Federally Regulated US Prediction Markets
US-based traders have more federally regulated choices in 2026 than at any point in prediction market history. Each of the eight platforms below operates under Commodity Futures Trading Commission jurisdiction, either as a Designated Contract Market (DCM) in its own right or by routing contracts through one.
They’re listed alphabetically — this isn’t a leaderboard.
If you want an opinion on which one fits a given use case, that’s what our ranked guide to the best prediction market platforms is for; this page just tells you who exists.
These eight are the names most people mean when they say “prediction markets” in 2026, though the underlying federal plumbing is bigger still — brokerages such as Interactive Brokers also list event contracts through DCMs like ForecastEx and Rothera Exchange and Clearing, some of which feed the same contracts into Robinhood’s app below.
| Platform | Regulatory basis | What it offers |
|---|---|---|
| Coinbase | Distributes Kalshi’s DCM contracts | Kalshi-sourced event contracts built into the Coinbase app, live nationwide since January 2026 — see Coinbase’s prediction markets rollout for how the order flow works. |
| Crypto.com | CFTC-regulated via Crypto.com Derivatives North America | Launched its OG Prediction Markets product in February 2026, built around margin-based contracts — a feature most rivals don’t offer. |
| DraftKings Predictions | CFTC-regulated event contracts | Launched inside the DraftKings “Super App” in December 2025; DraftKings’ prediction markets product reported annualized consumer volume past $1 billion within months. |
| FanDuel Predicts | Contracts listed on CME Group exchanges | Built with CME Group; expanded from five launch states to all 50 by mid-2026, though sports-specific contracts remain limited to about 18 jurisdictions. |
| Kalshi | CFTC-designated contract market | A DCM in its own right, and the exchange behind several other apps on this list — see Kalshi’s event contracts for how the exchange itself works. |
| Polymarket US | CFTC-designated contract market (via QCX acquisition) | Polymarket’s original exchange is offshore and barred US traders after a 2022 CFTC settlement. A 2025 acquisition of licensed exchange QCX created Polymarket US; see how Polymarket’s markets work for the fuller regulatory timeline. |
| PredictIt | CFTC staff no-action relief (not a full DCM) | Capped at $850 per trader per contract; survived a multi-year CFTC shutdown attempt in court and now operates under the nonprofit Prediction Market Research Consortium. |
| Robinhood | Routes to Kalshi, ForecastEx, or Rothera | Event contracts offered through Robinhood Derivatives, LLC, which sources from multiple CFTC-regulated exchanges depending on the market; fees moved to a probability-weighted model in mid-2026. |
Crypto-Native and On-Chain Prediction Markets
These platforms sit outside the US federal framework above.
Markets settle in crypto or stablecoins rather than dollars, contracts run on smart contracts instead of a broker’s ledger, and most explicitly exclude US residents. Volume and liquidity are much smaller than Polymarket or Kalshi — one May 2026 estimate put the combined monthly volume of several of these platforms at under 4% of Polymarket’s.
That doesn’t make them less real; it makes them a different category of prediction market entirely. Funding usually happens through a self-custody wallet and a stablecoin like USDC or USDT rather than a bank transfer, and there’s no federal deposit protection or CFTC dispute process to fall back on if something goes wrong — the trade-off for markets that don’t need a broker’s permission to list.
| Platform | Chain / model | What it offers |
|---|---|---|
| Azuro | AMM infrastructure, multi-chain (Polygon, Gnosis Chain, Chiliz, Arbitrum) | Not a single site — a protocol other developers build betting and prediction front-ends on top of, using shared liquidity pools instead of an order book. |
| Drift BET | Solana (built into Drift Protocol) | A prediction-markets feature inside a Solana derivatives exchange; the same wallet balance that backs a position can keep earning lending yield at the same time. |
| Insight Prediction | Multi-chain | A Brooklyn-founded platform focused mainly on political and policy markets; smaller order books than the majors, and its code isn’t publicly auditable. |
| Limitless Exchange | Base, order-book model | Cumulative volume passed $500 million in 2025, the largest prediction market native to Base; zero-fee trading, but not available to US users. |
| Myriad | Abstract, BNB Chain, Linea | Includes a browser extension that lets people open a market directly from a news article or social post; used Chainlink as its resolution oracle for 2026 World Cup markets. |
| Omen / Presagio | Gnosis Chain, conditional-token framework | Omen was the original consumer front-end for Gnosis’s conditional-token markets; a 2024 successor called Presagio layers AI-agent tooling onto the same underlying markets. |
| Polkamarkets | Ethereum, Moonbeam, Moonriver (mostly Polygon activity) | AMM-based markets traded directly from a MetaMask wallet, settled in USDT; smaller and less active than the Polkadot-native platforms below. |
| SX Bet | Own appchain | The largest crypto-native sports-focused market, with more than $500 million wagered by upward of 10,000 users; also lists politics and crypto-price contracts. |
| Zeitgeist | Polkadot parachain | Resolves disputed markets through a decentralized court and jury system rather than a single oracle; settles in USDC. Full technical detail is in Azuro’s public documentation, which covers how several of these AMM-style markets share similar mechanics. |
Forecasting, Play-Money, and Academic Platforms
Not everything that calls itself a prediction market lets anyone cash out. These platforms exist to measure forecasting accuracy rather than to settle real-money or crypto bets, and none carry the financial risk of the two categories above.
- Iowa Electronic Markets (IEM) is the oldest prediction market still running, operated by the University of Iowa’s Tippie College of Business since 1988. Accounts are capped between $5 and $500 under a long-standing CFTC no-action framework built specifically for academic research rather than commercial trading — details are on the university’s own IEM site.
- Metaculus is a reputation-based forecasting platform where no money changes hands. Users submit probability estimates on structured questions and build a public track record over time; in 2026 it’s increasingly used to benchmark how well AI models forecast against human crowds.
- Manifold Markets uses a play-money currency called Mana that can’t be converted to cash — a design choice that keeps it outside gambling and commodities regulation. Users create and trade markets on almost anything, from elections to whether a personal project ships on time, which makes it as much a social platform as a forecasting tool.
- Good Judgment Open grew out of the IARPA-sponsored Good Judgment Project and its “superforecasters” research. There’s no money or Mana at stake — forecasters submit probability estimates on structured questions, see how their accuracy compares against the crowd, and can write out their reasoning for others to challenge, which makes it more of a training ground for calibrated judgment than a market in the usual sense.
Historical and Discontinued Platforms Worth Knowing
A complete list of prediction markets also has to account for the ones that didn’t make it. Two are worth knowing for context, and one current platform came close enough to joining them that it’s worth a mention here too.
- Intrade is the best-known casualty. It gained fame for correctly calling 49 of 50 US states in the 2008 presidential election, then suspended all trading in March 2013 after the CFTC sued it for offering unregistered options and it disclosed “possible financial irregularities” in its own accounts. It never reopened.
- Augur, one of Ethereum’s first decentralized apps, launched in 2015 and saw single markets draw more than $10 million in activity around the 2020 US election. It collapsed almost immediately after: by 2021 its REP token had fallen more than 99% from its peak, and Augur V2 had quietly excluded US and UK users. Reports of a possible relaunch surfaced in 2025, but as of mid-2026 the original platform remains a shadow of its 2020 activity.
- iPredict ran New Zealand’s own real-money political market from 2008 until it wound down at the end of 2015. It didn’t close because regulators called it gambling — it shut down because it was too small to absorb the compliance cost of new anti-money-laundering rules aimed squarely at banks, after the government declined to grant it an exemption.
- SciCast was a DARPA-funded combinatorial market that let forecasters bet on science and technology questions rather than politics or sports. It ran on reputation points rather than real money, and quietly stopped operating around 2015 once its funding period ended.
- PredictIt itself nearly joined this list. The CFTC moved to end its no-action relief in 2022, triggering close to three years of litigation before a federal court ruled in PredictIt’s favor in July 2025. It’s back to trading under new management today — see the regulated-platforms table above — but the episode is a reminder that “currently operating” and “permanent” aren’t the same thing for any prediction market.
Why This List of Prediction Markets Isn’t Ranked
Everything above is meant to be browsed, not judged. If a platform exists and we could verify it’s actively operating, it’s listed here regardless of size, fees, or app quality — that’s the point of a directory. A verdict-driven comparison, with a specific recommendation for specific situations, lives on the ranked guide linked earlier in the regulated-platforms section instead; this page’s job is completeness, not a winner. For the broader mechanics of how event contracts, settlement, and regulation actually work before you pick anything from the tables above, start with our prediction markets guide. Bookmark this page instead of the ranked one if your goal is simply knowing what’s out there before you narrow it down.
18+. Prediction markets involve real financial risk — contracts can expire worthless, and you should never trade with money you can’t afford to lose. If gambling or trading stops being fun, seek support from a problem-gambling helpline in your country.
