Crypto.com and PYMNTS to launch AI-focused prediction market in September
Crypto.com and PYMNTS are launching AI Prediction Market Contracts in September 2026. The regulated platform will offer more than 20 event contracts tied to artificial intelligence outcomes, letting users trade on AI's economic impact rather than opinion. The partnership expands both companies beyond politics and sports into AI-focused markets, with Crypto.com supplying regulatory infrastructure and PYMNTS providing content expertise.
This launch tests whether AI-themed contracts can draw volume from traders who find politics and sports exhausted. Crypto.com and PYMNTS are betting that AI disruption is a durable trading theme with less regulatory heat than election markets. Crypto.com, the deal deepens its white-label stack after the ROLR and Markets launches.
The September deadline leaves narrow time to build liquidity before year-end. If the contracts attract institutional interest, expect rival platforms to rush similar AI offerings. A thin debut would confirm that event-contract traders stick to familiar domains, and that new verticals need more than novelty to sustain spreads.
Crypto.com is already the infrastructure partner for High Roller's ROLR prediction market and Markets' derivatives offering, making this AI venture its second white-label prediction-market launch in under a week and cementing its role as the default licensing shortcut for entrants avoiding direct CFTC designation.