Crypto.com lists 85 open roles including legal counsel for prediction markets
Crypto.com has posted 85 open positions on job-search platform SimplyApply, including a Chicago-based Legal Counsel role focused on capital and prediction markets. The listing also includes a chief financial officer position. Separately, Crypto.com appointed Mohammed Mortajine as chief compliance officer. The platform offers digital assets, traditional financial services, and hybrid products including prediction markets and tokenized real-world assets. No details on the event-contract strategy were provided.
The hiring push signals Crypto.com is building internal legal capacity for regulated prediction markets rather than relying on outside counsel. That matters for pacing: every new entrant now faces state preemption fights that Kalshi already lost in Ohio and Tennessee, and Missouri is only the latest battlefield. An in-house legal team can respond faster than outside counsel when state attorneys general file, but it also raises fixed costs before any CFTC license clears.
Crypto.com's dual-track approach — consumer app through Predict Pro and institutional arm through OG.com — doubles the regulatory surface area one legal team must cover. The 85-role bulk listing suggests the platform is staffing for multiple product lines at once, which spreads legal talent thin unless the prediction-markets hire is the first of several. Competitors like Blockchain.com and Binance US are pursuing their own CFTC licenses, so any delay in Crypto.com's readiness deepens the queue and pushes launch revenue further out.
Crypto.com joins Binance US, Blockchain.com, and others in pursuing a U.S. prediction-markets footprint, adding another crypto-native operator to the stack of CFTC license applicants and state-level defendants.