Robinhood knows you want to bet on everything

"Robinhood is betting that its customers want to trade on absolutely everything. On Tuesday, the popular stock-trading app unveiled a slate of updates to its prediction markets business, aggressively expanding into sports. Now, Robinhood users can trade contracts tied to specific professional football players' performances, as well as pre-packaged combos for individual games. Early next year, customers will be able to combine up to ten outcomes - such as winners, spreads, and totals - into a single, custom-built contract."

"Robinhood's news site, Sherwood, is also launching a new sports newsletter, Scoreboard. Eventually, Robinhood plans to launch contracts that span not just multiple games, but multiple categories, from sports to climate to politics. "If customers say they're looking to trade a specific category or specific event, we're all ears," Adam Hickerson, Robinhood's senior director of futures and prediction markets, tells Fast Company."

"For the uninitiated, prediction markets allow people to trade on real-world events by buying and selling contracts. These events can range from sports matches to political elections to who Time will name as its "Person of the Year." Since Robinhood launched prediction markets in late 2024, they've become the company's fastest growing line of business: In the third quarter of 2025, it reported that users traded 2.3 billion prediction-markets contracts. Then, in October alone, that figure reached 2.5 billion."

Robinhood expanded its prediction markets into sports, enabling trades on individual professional football players' performances and pre-packaged game combos. Customers will soon be able to combine up to ten outcomes—winners, spreads, totals—into single custom contracts. Sherwood will launch a sports newsletter called Scoreboard. Robinhood plans future contracts that span multiple games and categories, including sports, climate, and politics. Prediction markets let users buy and sell contracts tied to real-world events. Since late 2024, prediction markets grew rapidly, with 2.3 billion contracts traded in Q3 2025 and 2.5 billion traded in October alone. Sports contracts are the most popular.

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