DraftKings sits at the centre of a U.S. digital gaming duopoly that — alongside FanDuel — now controls 75-80% of the country's sports betting market. The company's competitive identity is built on a five-year migration away from outsourced technology toward a vertically integrated proprietary stack covering pricing, trading, account management and, most recently, prediction-market exchange infrastructure. For Bally's, Boyd, Caesars, Penn Entertainment, BetMGM and the rest of

DraftKings has acquired Railbird Technologies and its CFTC-designated exchange, Railbird Exchange, in a move that drags the US sportsbook wars onto a new board: federally regulated prediction markets. The company says it will launch DraftKings Predictions , a mobile app that lets customers trade event contracts on real-world outcomes in finance, culture and entertainment “in the coming months.” Financial terms were not disclosed. Deal timing. DraftKings announced the transa

In our second "Expert Voices," interview, we delve into the evolving landscape of online sports betting and iGaming with an industry...