Crypto.com and OG bring prediction markets to U.S. SailGP team

Crypto.com and OG Prediction Markets have signed a multi year global partnership with the United States SailGP Team, ahead of this week’s New York Sail Grand Prix, bringing CFTC regulated prediction markets directly into elite foiling yacht racing for the first time.

With the New York Sail Grand Prix set to light up the city’s harbor this weekend, the U.S. SailGP Team has named Crypto.com and its OG Prediction Markets platform as Global Partners, tying a top tier U.S. sailing franchise to a CFTC regulated crypto backed prediction venue.

Under the multi year deal, Crypto.com becomes the team’s Official Crypto Exchange while OG is designated Official Prediction Market Partner, with both brands to appear on the American F50 catamaran, race kit and team environments at SailGP regattas worldwide.

Crypto backed prediction markets hit the water

At the heart of the partnership is OG Prediction Markets, a standalone platform launched by Crypto.com earlier this year that allows users in the United States to trade regulated event contracts on sports, financial, political and cultural outcomes. OG is powered by CryptoCrypto.com | Derivatives North America, a Commodity Futures Trading Commission registered exchange and clearinghouse, positioning the app as a federally supervised alternative to offshore prediction venues. 

“Crypto.com has always backed those who compete at the highest level — and the U.S. SailGP Team is exactly that,” said Steve Humenik, EVP and Global Head of Legal for Prediction and Capital Markets at Crypto.com. “The OG Prediction Markets partnership reflects our long term commitment to a diverse offering of sports prediction markets, including highly technical and data driven sports like SailGP,” he added, arguing that the tie up helps make “the U.S. the Prediction Markets Capital of the World.”

The deal gives OG a highly visible entry point into a league that is already positioning itself as “Formula 1 on the water,” with 50 foot foiling catamarans capable of speeds above 60 mph racing across iconic global venues and beaming data to broadcasters in real time. SailGP says its tracking systems capture hundreds of data points per second per boat, a rich stream that underpins live odds making and now, through OG, fan facing prediction markets linked directly to U.S. team performance.

SailGP leans harder into betting

For the United States SailGP Team, the Crypto.com and OG sponsorship arrives as the league accelerates its broader playbook around betting and interactive wagering. SailGP has already struck betting integrations with operators such as DraftKings in the U.S. and Bet365 internationally for its Rolex SailGP Championship, enabling fixed odds bets on fleet race winners, finalists and season champions.

“Having Crypto.com and OG Prediction Markets commit to a multi year Global Partnership is a tremendous statement of confidence in where the U.S. SailGP Team and this league are heading,” said Mike Buckley, Team Principal, CEO and Co Owner of the U.S. SailGP Team. Buckley called the agreement “monumental,” stressing that “the ability for fans to engage with our races through OG’s prediction platform is just the beginning of what we’ll build together.”

For Crypto.com, the SailGP partnership extends a push beyond conventional spot trading into derivatives and event contracts, following the February rollout of OG as a social prediction app where the first one million users can earn up to $500 in rewards for trading real world outcomes. It also builds on the exchange’s growing sports sponsorship portfolio and could help drive volume in regulated event markets that some analysts see evolving into a multibillion dollar asset class.

Crypto.com’s native token cronos is currently tracked on the Crypto.com market cap page, alongside major assets like bitcoin and ethereum, underscoring how deeply the exchange is embedded in both trading and fan facing products. In a previous crypto.com launch report, the company framed OG as a way for sports fans to “act on uncertainty, capitalize on the future, and celebrate triumph” in a regulated environment.

Prediction markets are also gaining traction elsewhere in crypto, with platforms like Polymarket continuing to prove that trading on probabilities can double as a powerful information aggregator. In a related crypto.news feature, OG was cast as Crypto.com’s bid to bring that model into a regulated U.S. framework, marrying trading mechanics with social leaderboards and sports obsessed communities.

As the new livery hits the water in New York and co branded campaigns roll out across digital channels, both sides are betting that SailGP’s high speed, data heavy format can turn sailing into fertile ground for prediction market adoption. Whether fans treat OG’s contracts more like trading or like wagering, the partnership signals that the line between sports betting, derivatives and crypto native prediction markets is getting thinner with each new deal.