$29.2M+ · Banking Infrastructure + Prediction Markets

What they're building

EDGE Markets runs three financial products for markets that traditional banks were not built to serve. EDGE Boost is the existing product: a Visa debit card and banking platform issued through Cross River Bank (Member FDIC) that lets users in sports betting, iGaming, and crypto move money in and out of platforms 24/7 without triggering the bank restrictions that block most consumer payment flows in regulated gaming. The Visa debit programme has processed more than two billion dollars in transactions since its launch. It includes built-in responsible gaming tools (spending limits, real-time tracking) and a crypto-to-fiat conversion layer via a ZeroHash integration announced in May 2026. EDGE Pro is the new institutional product: the first high throughput deposit accounts for market makers that enable seamless, real-time deposits into all CFTC regulated exchanges. EDGE Pro solves the two largest friction points for institutional capital to scale: multi-liquidity pool post-execution settlement and margin. Market makers on Kalshi, Polymarket, and CFTC-registered prediction exchanges currently face delays and fragmentation when moving capital between liquidity pools. EDGE Pro collapses that into a single high-throughput account. EDGE Connect is the new operator-facing payment rail: the industry's first purpose-built payment rail, engineered specifically for the regulated gaming and prediction market ecosystems. EDGE Connect supports high throughput Real Time Payments (RTP) at no cost for EDGE users or operators to push funds into their accounts 24/7/365. RTP is supported by the majority of banks in the US and requires no integration from operators. Both EDGE Pro and EDGE Connect are being offered free to early users and operators through the end of 2026 to drive adoption.

Why this matters

The prediction market category is experiencing a structural inflection. Polymarket received a $2 billion investment from ICE (NYSE's parent) in 2026 and hit a $9 billion valuation. Kalshi received CFTC approval to list event contracts nationally. Trading volume has crossed hundreds of billions of dollars annually. These are no longer retail novelty products. They are financial markets, and institutional capital is beginning to flow into them. Institutional capital has a specific problem that retail-facing solutions do not solve: it needs to move in size, in real time, across multiple regulated exchanges simultaneously, with settlement mechanics that match the 24/7 nature of prediction market events. Alex Felix, co-founder and CIO of CoinFund, said: "The biggest moments in gaming and prediction markets happen on nights and weekends, exactly when the banking system slows to a crawl. EDGE built the rails to match that reality. And, as institutions start to participate in these markets seriously, the ability to move capital in size, in real time, any day of the week, stops being a nice-to-have and becomes table stakes. We think EDGE becomes the default settlement layer for an entirely new category of financial markets." That framing, EDGE as the settlement layer for a new category, is the category-capture thesis that CoinFund is backing. They are not betting on EDGE being a good fintech product. They are betting on EDGE being the rails that everything else in prediction markets runs on.