Hacksaw Group has built a business-to-business platform for prediction markets, extending beyond the slot and game technology that made the company’s name. GamblingNews first reported the launch, which the company frames as an expansion within its existing cost base rather than a new build.
The timing is not incidental. Days earlier, Hacksaw shares fell nearly 30% after the company projected a slowdown in its third quarter, and a supplier whose core product is maturing has an obvious reason to look at adjacent categories. Prediction markets, where participants trade on the outcome of future events, are among the fastest-growing of those adjacencies, and the research firm Bernstein has projected annual trading volumes there could reach roughly $1 trillion by 2030. That estimate is secondhand and undated, but the scale of the number explains why B2B suppliers are moving before the market consolidates.
Why a supplier sees a natural adjacency
The platform’s central feature, as reported, is a connected volume framework that pools peer-to-peer participation across Hacksaw’s network of operators. That is a liquidity answer dressed up as a product feature: prediction markets live or die on volume, and a single operator rarely generates enough of it. An incumbent with a broad operator network can aggregate flow that a startup would have to buy.
Hacksaw says it will draw on existing technology, commercial relationships and its development team to support the expansion, so the marginal cost of the pivot is close to zero. Group chief executive Ana Vrabic Verdir called prediction markets “a compelling new opportunity at the intersection of technology, entertainment and market participation” in a company statement.
The precedent for other suppliers
Hacksaw is not the first gaming business to look at the sector, but the structure of its entry is instructive. Rather than launching a consumer product and chasing players, it is selling infrastructure to operators who already run its games, which converts an installed customer base into a distribution channel for a new vertical. If the framework works, the same play is open to any mid-size supplier with a broad B2B network and spare engineering capacity.
It also narrows the gap between gambling and event trading. As regulated suppliers build prediction market rails inside licensed frameworks, the line between a wager on a game and a position on an outcome becomes a product decision rather than a regulatory one.
The company has not named which operators have signed on, or when the platform goes live commercially.
Renata Kovacs has spent the better part of a decade following the regulatory shifts and licensing battles that define how gambling markets open, close, and evolve across Europe and beyond. She came up through the legal and compliance side of the industry before shifting her focus to journalism and analysis, giving her a perspective that sits closer to the operator room than the press box. Her coverage tends to cut through the noise and get straight to what a regulatory change actually means for the businesses and players involved.