Acquisitions/Merger
Polymarket Acquires Dome, a Unified API Platform
Polymarket has acquired Dome, a Y Combinator-backed startup that built a unified API platform for prediction markets. The acquisition was announced and confirmed on February 19, 2026, via posts on X by Polymarket and Dome’s team.
Financial terms were not disclosed, marking this as Polymarket’s second known acquisition following its 2025 purchase of CFTC-licensed derivatives exchange QCEX to support its U.S. re-entry. Dome provided a unified API and SDKs that enabled developers to: Access real-time and historical data like market odds, trades, order books.
This acquisition comes amid Polymarket’s growth, including recent partnerships with Substack for embedding live market data. The deal signals consolidation in the prediction markets space, boosting accessibility and innovation for developers and users alike.
The acquisition of Dome by Polymarket has several notable short- and medium-term impacts across the prediction markets sector, developer ecosystem, and Polymarket’s strategic positioning. Dome’s unified API; originally enabling single-integration access to data, trades, and analytics across platforms like Polymarket and Kalshi is now internalized.
This allows Polymarket to dramatically improve its own developer tools, reduce friction for builders, and create a more seamless experience for apps, bots, dashboards, algorithmic trading tools, and third-party integrations.
Polymarket gains insights into and potential influence over cross-platform activity, including on rival Kalshi. It reduces fragmentation in data access, making Polymarket the go-to hub for developers rather than forcing them to build separate integrations.
Dome’s team including co-founders from Alchemy joins Polymarket, accelerating roadmap execution on APIs, data reliability, and new features.
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Acquisitions/Merger
Betsson to Acquire Rhino Entertainment Group’s B2C Business in Canada
Betsson has announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Rhino Entertainment Group’s B2C business in Canada. The acquisition scope includes several Rhino Group entities that collectively hold assets, licenses, personnel, and operational capabilities related to Rhino’s B2C activities in Ontario and the rest of Canada. The target business currently serves Canadian customers and is well-positioned to expand into additional Canadian provinces as local regulatory frameworks continue to evolve.
In addition to the B2C assets, Betsson will acquire Rhino’s proprietary front-end and middleware technology. This technology will strengthen Betsson’s B2B offering and is expected to drive incremental licensing revenue within Betsson’s B2B business.
The transaction is consistent with Betsson’s strategy to generate shareholder value by investing in existing and new B2C markets and growing its B2B business. The acquisition is expected to add economies of scale, strengthen profitability and expand Betsson’s growth opportunities in its B2C and B2B businesses. In 2025, the acquired assets generated a combined estimated EUR 13.7 million of earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation (EBITDA) on a proforma basis.
The total purchase price amounts to approximately EUR 64.5 million with an upfront payment of EUR 51.25 million at closing and a deferred payment of the remaining amount six months after closing. Betsson will finance the acquisition with existing cash resources.
Completion of the deal is expected to take place after applicable regulatory clearances in the second or third quarter of 2026. Gernandt & Danielsson Advokatbyrå acts as lead legal advisor to Betsson in connection with the transaction.
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Acquisitions/Merger
PolyGun Acquires Polymarket Analytics
PolyGun, the world’s leading copy trading platform for prediction markets, has acquired Polymarket Analytics, the number one data and intelligence platform in the global prediction market space. PolyGun has earned its reputation as the most powerful and intuitive copy trading tool in the space, enabling users to automatically mirror the trades of the best-performing Polymarket wallets in real time. Polymarket Analytics, meanwhile, has built the most comprehensive prediction market intelligence platform on the internet.
This deal marks a watershed moment for an industry that has rapidly matured into a multi-billion dollar arena.
The Scale of Polymarket Analytics
Polymarket Analytics is the pulse of the entire prediction market ecosystem. The platform currently tracks:
• Over 2,300,000 traders monitored across Polymarket and Kalshi
• 183,871+ active markets tracked in real time
• 119,782,679+ individual positions indexed
• Over 250,000 active users on the platform
• As one of the only platforms in the world that provides deep analytical coverage of both Polymarket and Kalshi, Polymarket Analytics gives users a true 360-degree view of the prediction market landscape.
The platform has uncovered remarkable patterns in prediction market behavior: traders with documented 96% win rates on mention markets, anonymous accounts winning hundreds of thousands during NBA playoffs, and distinct trader archetypes, from speed traders reacting to breaking news, to liquidity providers, to disciplined “bonders” compounding on high-probability markets. This depth of intelligence was a central factor in PolyGun’s strategic decision to acquire the company.
“PolyGun was built on a single belief: that every trader deserves to win. We have obsessed over giving our users the tools they need to make smarter, faster, and more profitable decisions. Acquiring Polymarket Analytics is the next evolution of that mission. When you combine the best trading execution platform with the best data platform in the world, you don’t just improve the product, you change what’s possible,” said Larry, CMO & CFO at PolyGun.
What the Integration Means for Users
PolyGun plans to deeply integrate the Polymarket Analytics data pipeline directly into the PolyGun platform, giving users access to the fastest and most reliable market and trader intelligence available anywhere. This means PolyGun users will be able to make copy trading decisions backed by institutional-grade data, seeing not just who is winning, but understanding why, across every market and every platform.
Education has always been at the core of PolyGun’s DNA. The platform’s core philosophy is: “We win when our users win”. PolyGun invests in helping every user understand the markets they are trading in, the traders they are copying, and the edge they need to succeed consistently. The acquisition of Polymarket Analytics accelerates the mission to enable user access to position history, trader performance breakdowns, market sentiment data, win rates, and much more, all surfaced natively inside the PolyGun experience.
Polymarket Official Builders Program Partnership
Both PolyGun and Polymarket Analytics are official partners of the Polymarket Builders Program, an initiative designed to support the most innovative builders in the prediction market ecosystem. The Polymarket Builders Program has been instrumental in fostering a community of mission-driven teams who are committed to growing the prediction market space responsibly and ambitiously. This acquisition is in many ways a direct result of the world-class environment that Polymarket has cultivated in the program that empowers builders to dream bigger, move faster, and create products that genuinely serve the community.
As Vainglorious steps back from the CEO role, he leaves with the same mindset that built Polymarket Analytics from the ground up — find a north star, stay consistent, and ship.
“The hardest part wasn’t the code — it was finding a north star, staying consistent, and actually shipping,” said Vainglorious, CEO of Polymarket Analytics.
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Acquisitions/Merger
Underdog Acquires CFTC-Registered Designated Contract Market (DCM) and Derivatives Clearing Organization (DCO)
Underdog, the fastest-growing private sports company in the U.S., announced the purchase of Aristotle Exchange DCM Inc. and Aristotle Exchange DCO Inc., which are a Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) registered Designated Contract Market (DCM) and a Derivatives Clearing Organization (DCO), respectively. The acquisition enables Underdog to offer its own federally-compliant prediction market exchange, giving customers even more ways to express their opinions on sports and beyond. Underdog was the first sports gaming operator to offer access to sports prediction markets in its app last September.
“We look forward to working with the CFTC to offer an exchange that brings even more options to enjoy sports to our customers. We’re in the early innings of what prediction markets can be, especially for sports fans. We’ll use this opportunity to bring the same relentless focus on innovation and experience that we’ve always brought to our customers. The reality is, prediction markets are primarily about sports and no company knows how to engage with sports fans and create products for sports fans better than Underdog,” said Jeremy Levine, CEO and Co-Founder of Underdog.
Underdog’s exchange will allow customers to access sports event contracts and more. Underdog currently offers access to prediction markets as an intermediary to other exchanges, and the company will continue to expand its prediction offerings under its own exchange.
Aristotle’s financial advisor is Lazard and its legal advisor is Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP.
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