FanDuel, the biggest name in the U.S. gaming industry, has officially launched prediction markets in all 50 U.S. states on Thursday, with sports event contracts offered in 18 of those jurisdictions.
Key Takeaways
- FanDuel Predicts is offering several types of prediction markets across the U.S.
- California and Texas are included in the latest expansion of states with sports contracts.
- 32 states have FanDuel Predicts without sports markets.
FanDuel Predicts, a standalone app not tied to the operator’s sportsbook and iGaming platform, began offering sports, finance, economics, and commodities markets in Alabama, Alaska, North Dakota, South Dakota, and South Carolina just days before Christmas 2025.
On Wednesday, FanDuel expanded sports contracts in 13 new states. Ten of those states, like California and Texas, don’t offer legal sports betting. FanDuel now also has a sports presence in Florida, where there’s only one sports betting operator (Seminole Tribe’s Hard Rock Bet) and Georgia, which has struggled to legalize sports betting.
On Thursday, FanDuel Predicts updated its operating map to include residents in the other 32 states who can purchase contracts on finance, economics, and commodities only. All of those jurisdictions offer legal sports betting.
The 18 states offering sports event contracts include:
- California
- Idaho
- Utah
- New Mexico
- Texas
- Oklahoma
- Nebraska
- South Dakota
- North Dakota
- Minnesota
- Alabama
- South Carolina
- Georgia
- Florida
- Delaware
- Rhode Island
- Alaska
- Hawaii
FanDuel’s offerings
FanDuel said it wouldn’t offer sports contracts in states where it already operates a sportsbook to avoid regulatory issues.
The gaming company’s current sports offerings include markets for the NFL, NBA, NHL, college football, and college basketball. For users in California and Texas, the two most populous states, it marks the first time that they can pick an NBA game winner on Thursday night under the FanDuel umbrella.
Residents in both sports and non-sports prediction states also have access to markets like the Nasdaq-100 futures price by 5 p.m. today, the federal funds rate for January, and the gross domestic product increase for 2025’s Q4.
“We're giving our customers a new platform to engage with the world around them – whether that's the next Fed rate decision or a sports event,” James Cooper, senior vice president, flywheel and new ventures at FanDuel, said in December. “This (early) launch in five states will provide valuable insights into customer engagement with this new platform, enabling us to refine our approach as we expand to additional states in 2026."
Competitive space
FanDuel partnered with CME Group in 2025 to gain access to federally regulated prediction markets and joined a growing list of sports betting companies getting involved in this space.
Through a partnership with Crypto.com, Fanatics was the first iGaming operator to offer prediction markets in early December 2025. DraftKings Predictions launched in 38 states a couple of weeks later, giving the second U.S. sports betting market-share operator a trading exchange.
Prediction market platforms like Kalshi and Robinhood have been offering sports contracts in this space since early 2025. Polymarket, one of the largest trading exchanges in the world, recently re-launched in the U.S. Popular daily fantasy sports operators Underdog and PrizePicks have been offering prediction market selections for multiple months.
FanDuel Predicts and the others are regulated by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. Prediction markets have been met with criticism in some circles and a call for more federal involvement.
