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Robinhood buys into OG.com at the $5bn mark Citadel set in July

Robinhood is paying Citadel's July price for an undisclosed minority slice of the venue that will clear volume Robinhood can move at will, which makes OG.com a fourth supplier rather than an owned engine.

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What happened

Robinhood named OG.com an infrastructure and clearing provider under a multi-year deal announced on September 8, routing retail event-contract volume through OG's CFTC-regulated exchange and clearinghouse.
As part of the agreement Robinhood will hold minority equity stakes in both Crypto.com and OG.com, and neither company disclosed how large those stakes are.
OG.com becomes a fourth source of contracts and clearing for Robinhood users, alongside Kalshi, ForecastEx and the Robinhood-affiliated exchange Rothera.
Event contracts are Robinhood's fastest-growing line, with users trading more than 16 billion of them in 2026 by early June while crypto trading revenue fell 38% year over year.

Why it matters

What it limits constraint An undisclosed minority stake bought at another investor's July price buys exposure to OG.com's upside without buying the ability to set the clearing terms Robinhood's customers trade against.
Who has to decide decision With four venues wired in, every routing choice stays Robinhood's to make, which means OG.com has to win volume order by order rather than assume the flow it was just promised.
Who's exposed exposure OG.com's standalone mark now leans on flow its largest B2B partner by volume controls, and that partner has already shown it will move volume between suppliers.
What's now possible capability If regulators clear equity-linked perpetual futures, the same clearing relationship carries products with far larger notional than event contracts, and Robinhood's shares ride along.

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The stake is the term worth chewing on, and nobody disclosed its size ^[5]. Robinhood is buying at a price Citadel Securities set in July, the $20bn mark on the Crypto.com group that carries a standalone $5bn for OG.com ^[4], and since that round was Crypto.com's first institutional money ^[6], the reference price on this equity is exactly one quote old. That makes Robinhood a price-taker on the shares and the price-setter on the flow, because the arrangement is billed as OG.com's largest B2B prediction-markets partnership by transaction volume ^[26] and the volume in question is routed out of Robinhood's own app ^[2].

OG's $5bn is a quarter of the group's $20bn ^[15], attached to a business Crypto.com launched as a standalone app in February and has since carved into its own capitalised entity ^[8], roughly seven months from launch to spin-off ^[16]. Set that against the customer's economics: event-contract revenue of $156m in the second quarter, up more than tenfold, implies a year-earlier base below about $15.6m ^[10]^[20] and a current run rate near $624m ^[21], so the mark on the venue is about eight times the whole run rate of the flow it is being paid to clear ^[24]. On contracts traded through early June, even crediting every one of them to the quarter, the take works out to about a cent apiece ^[22], and the real figure is higher because they did not all fall in that quarter.

The tidy reading is vertical control, and it does not survive the supplier list. OG joins Kalshi, ForecastEx and Rothera, the CFTC-licensed exchange Robinhood runs as a joint venture with Susquehanna and tested during this year's World Cup ^[25]^[17]. Robinhood already owns the integrated option and keeps buying pipes anyway, so what it bought here is a fourth route with an equity kicker attached: a volume rebate paid in shares of the venue instead of in basis points, which is roughly what Mackenzie meant by more skin in the game ^[9].

This reads differently depending on which of three paths plays out over the next year. If Marszalek's stated ambition holds and OG becomes the venue for futures and perpetuals, with equity-linked perps flagged as the next filing ^[14]^[27], the stake is an option on a book far larger than event contracts and $5bn was cheap. If event-contract volume normalises, Robinhood owns a minority slice priced at a peak mark. If Rothera absorbs the routing, OG's standalone mark loses the customer that justifies it ^[26].

What would settle the control question is disclosure of a stake large enough to consolidate, or exclusivity on routing; the announcement contains neither ^[3]^[5]. The price reaction decayed on schedule, HOOD up about 3.4% premarket near $126 and 0.8% by 9:48 in New York ^[12]^[13], roughly a quarter of the move surviving the open ^[23], while CRO added more than 6% to $0.06 a month after a three-year low that followed Trump Media Group's cancelled deals ^[18]. Right now Robinhood collects a slice of the fee on its own flow and pays for that slice at a price someone else negotiated, a step short of owning the clearing engine that would let it collect the fee on the flow outright.

What to watch

Disclosure of the stake sizes in Robinhood's next filing, which would show whether this is an option or something closer to a controlling position.
Whether routed volume shifts toward Rothera or toward OG.com over the next two quarters, since that decides whose valuation the flow supports.
Regulatory clearance for the equity-linked perpetual futures both companies have flagged as the next product.

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[1]
Robinhood Markets and OG.com announced a multi-year partnership on September 8, 2026, designating OG.com as an infrastructure and clearing provider for Robinhood's Prediction Markets offering.
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Under the agreement Robinhood will route retail event contract volume through OG.com's CFTC-regulated derivatives exchange and clearinghouse architecture.
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Robinhood is taking minority equity stakes in both Crypto.com and OG.com.
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Robinhood's stakes will be priced in line with Citadel Securities' recent investment in Crypto.com, which valued the group at $20 billion including a standalone $5 billion valuation for OG.com.
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The size of Robinhood's stakes was not disclosed.
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Citadel Securities' July investment was Crypto.com's first-ever institutional funding round.
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The rollout of OG.com-backed event contracts on the Robinhood app begins in phases to eligible U.S. customers starting September 8, 2026.
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Crypto.com launched OG.com as a standalone app in February and has now spun it off into its own separately capitalised company.
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JB Mackenzie, Robinhood's VP and GM of futures and prediction markets, said the deal 'gives us even more skin in the game'.
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Robinhood's event contract revenue surged more than 10-fold year-over-year to $156 million in the second quarter, its fastest-growing business line, while crypto trading revenue fell 38%.
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[11]
Robinhood users traded more than 16 billion event contracts in 2026 by early June.
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[12]
HOOD shares climbed roughly 3.4% in premarket trading to around $126 on the news.
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Shares of Robinhood were up 0.8% at 9:48 a.m. in New York.
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Kris Marszalek, founder and CEO of Crypto.com and OG.com, said he looks forward to making OG.com the most liquid venue globally for innovative derivative instruments, starting with prediction markets and quickly expanding into futures and perpetuals.
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OG.com's $5bn standalone valuation is 25% of the $20bn valuation placed on the Crypto.com group.
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From OG.com's February app launch to the September 8 announcement of its spin-off and Robinhood deal is about seven months.
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Robinhood built its prediction markets hub on Kalshi's contracts, then began shifting volume to Rothera, its own CFTC-licensed exchange run as a joint venture with Susquehanna International Group, testing it during this year's World Cup.
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CRO, Crypto.com's native token, jumped more than 6% to $0.06 with a daily high of $0.065, a month after slumping to a three-year low following Trump Media Group's cancellation of a separate set of deals with Crypto.com.
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Prediction Markets on Robinhood are offered by Robinhood Derivatives, LLC, a futures commission merchant registered with the CFTC and a member of the National Futures Association.
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[20]
Growth of more than tenfold to $156m implies a year-earlier event contract revenue base below about $15.6m.
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[21]
Second-quarter event contract revenue of $156m annualises to about $624m.
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[22]
Crediting all 16bn contracts traded in 2026 by early June to the second quarter, $156m of revenue is about one cent per contract, a floor rather than an estimate because not all of them traded in that quarter.
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The 0.8% gain at 9:48 a.m. is about a quarter of the roughly 3.4% premarket move.
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OG.com's $5bn valuation is about eight times Robinhood's annualised event contract revenue run rate of roughly $624m.
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OG.com gives Robinhood users another source of prediction markets alongside Kalshi, ForecastEx and Robinhood-affiliated Rothera.
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The companies say the agreement will be OG.com's largest B2B prediction markets partnership in terms of transaction volumes.
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[27]
Both companies have flagged equity-linked perpetual futures as the next step, pending regulatory clearance.
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Sources

4 independent publishers whose own reporting we read for this story.

bankless.com
1 article · September 8, 2026
Robinhood Takes Stakes in Crypto.com, OG.com
decrypt.co
1 article · September 8, 2026
Robinhood Takes Equity Stake in Crypto.com, Taps Exchange to Power Prediction Markets
finance.yahoo.com
1 article · September 8, 2026
Robinhood Strikes Prediction-Market, Equity Deal With OG.com
prnewswire.com
1 article · September 8, 2026
Robinhood Selects OG.com as Infrastructure Partner for Prediction Markets Platform, Holding Equity Stake in Exchange Engine

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Builder24%

For anyone who has to integrate against this, the useful detail is thin and unevenly spread. Only the companies' own release names the entities that carry the regulatory weight, Robinhood Derivatives as the futures commission merchant and OG.com's North American Derivatives Exchange as the designated contract market and clearing organisation. Decrypt is the one outlet that explains what an infrastructure and clearing provider actually does once a customer places a trade, and that Robinhood already has Kalshi, ForecastEx and its own Rothera occupying the same slot. What none of the four describes is how order flow gets allocated between those venues, which is the detail that decides whether OG.com is plumbing or decoration.

Operator32%

The operational shape here is a routing table, and Decrypt draws it most completely: Kalshi first, then Rothera, the Susquehanna joint venture Robinhood tested during the World Cup, and now OG.com. Robinhood can turn a venue down as easily as it turned it up, and no source in our coverage reports a minimum volume commitment in either direction. The rollout is phased and limited to eligible U.S. customers from day one, which the release states plainly and the reporting does not press further; Decrypt's count of three suppliers against Bankless's four is a small sign of how little attention the allocation question has had.

Investor44%

Bloomberg supplies the two figures that price this: the stakes go in at Citadel's July mark of $20bn for the Crypto.com group with $5bn standalone for OG.com, and Robinhood was up 0.8% at 9:48 a.m. rather than the 3.4% premarket move Decrypt caught. Set the $5bn tag against the roughly $624m annual run rate implied by $156m of second-quarter event contract revenue and OG.com is being bought at about eight times the revenue Robinhood itself earns from the whole category. Bankless adds the growth headline and the 16 billion contract count; not one of the four can tell you what share of either company Robinhood is actually buying.