Crypto.com Exchange and OG.com Partner with River Markets to Bring Regulated Prediction Markets to Institutional Traders
Partnership Integrates River Markets’ Prime Brokerage Platform with OG.com’s Catalog of CFTC-Regulated Event Contracts for Hedge Funds and Quantitative Trading Desks
October 20, 2026 – Crypto.com Exchange and OG.com today announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with prime brokerage River Markets. The partnership will give River Markets’ institutional clients, such as hedge funds and quantitative trading desks, access to OG.com’s CFTC- regulated prediction markets alongside Crypto.com Exchange’s deep digital asset spot market liquidity.
Headquartered in San Francisco, River Markets operates as a dedicated prime brokerage for prediction markets, combining execution, risk management, and portfolio tracking into a single professional platform.
Eligible River Markets institutional traders located in the United States will soon be able to access liquidity through OG.com and Crypto.com Exchange and can execute sophisticated event contract strategies across macroeconomics, finance, sports, politics, and culture via River Markets’ high-performance platform and low-latency prime brokerage platform.
Having routed over 150 million contracts to date, River Markets’ intelligent order-routing technology also allows institutional traders to manage exposure across prediction market venues without building fragmented in-house technology.
Powered by a CFTC-regulated event contracts infrastructure, OG.com provides a secure, fully collateralized, and transparent trading environment through OG.com Markets, a regulated Designated Contract Market (DCM) and Derivatives Clearing Organization (DCO).
Originally established by Crypto.com, OG.com is an independent trading platform following its announced spin off from Crypto.com in September 2026. Separately, the Crypto.com Exchange is Crypto.com’s institutional-grade trading platform for advanced and institutional users.
"Providing River Markets’ users with access to the Crypto.com Exchange will give institutional traders direct access to our deep liquidity pools and extensive suite of digital asset markets," said Iskandar Vanblarcum, Managing Director of Crypto.com Exchange. "As prediction market participants seek sophisticated strategies, this partnership enables institutional desks to manage broader digital asset exposure seamlessly on a high-performance, secure trading platform."
"Partnering with River Markets is a key step in bringing institutional scale and liquidity to regulated prediction markets," said Steve Humenik, Chief Legal Officer, OG.com and Chairman of OG.com Markets. "By connecting River Markets’ institutional prime brokerage platform directly to our CFTC-supervised central limit order book, quantitative trading desks and portfolio managers can now seamlessly price and hedge real-world macro risks with the security, transparency, and market integrity of a federally regulated exchange."
"Prediction markets have matured from a niche asset class into essential information infrastructure for global macro and quantitative trading desks," said Oscar Levy, Co-Founder and CEO of River Markets. "Our mission at River Markets is to unlock institutional scale by offering professional traders unified execution, risk management, and best-execution order routing. Integrating OG.com’s CFTC-regulated event contracts gives our institutional clients access to a deep catalog of regulated event markets through a single, institutional-grade API and platform."
About Crypto.com Exchange
The Crypto.com Exchange allows institutional and advanced traders to trade with confidence on one of the world’s fastest and most secure platforms. The Exchange is a truly comprehensive on-chain and multi-asset offering providing access to cryptocurrencies and RWAs such as equities, commodities, metals, energy and stock indices. Traders can utilise a full suite of financial instruments, including spot trading, margin trading*, derivatives*, RWA-perpetuals* and more. Empowered by deep global liquidity, the platform’s execution workflow offers both a real-time aggregated order book and a dedicated Over-the-Counter (OTC) offering, ensuring that all trading is conducted in a safe, seamless, and fully regulated environment. Additionally, Crypto.com Exchange offers Crypto-as-a-Service, an all-in-one crypto infrastructure solution to empower digital asset strategy for banks, brokers, exchanges, and fintech firms.
*subject to jurisdictional regulatory requirements
About OG.com
OG.com is an independent trading platform that operates multiple business lines servicing customers globally. Conducting business through registered entities, including the OG of event markets North American Derivatives Exchange, Inc., a designated contract market and derivatives clearing organization registered with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), and the OG Broker, a CFTC-registered Futures Commission Merchant (FCM), OG.com offers an up-to-date trading ecosystem for prediction market contracts across various categories, including sports, financials, economics, culture, and much more.
Built around a comprehensive suite of event contracts, OG.com allows all OGs to be original, whether a customer is a sports fan, an influencer, an oracle of culture, or part of the global community - all OGs can act on uncertainty, trade predictions, engage with a vibrant community, and climb the leaderboard. Available through direct access as well as intermediaries like FCMs and Introducing Brokers, OG.com is where it pays to be right.
OG.com is available in approved jurisdictions. Trading is subject to risk and may not be appropriate for all.
About River Markets
River Markets is a financial technology company building the first prime brokerage for prediction markets. Headquartered in San Francisco, River Markets provides hedge funds, proprietary trading firms, and professional traders with unified execution, risk management, and portfolio infrastructure across prediction-market exchanges. Through a single professional platform and low-latency API, trading desks can access deep liquidity, deploy advanced execution strategies, and manage positions, exposure, and P&L seamlessly. Founded by quantitative traders Oscar Levy and Antonin Parrot, River Markets has routed over 150 million contracts to date and is backed by top-tier venture capital firms following its $8.5 million seed funding round.
