Underdog to add stablecoin and crypto account funding through zerohash
Underdog said eligible users will be able to add supported stablecoins and digital assets to their accounts inside its app later this year, with zerohash's onchain infrastructure moving money in near real time even on weekends and evenings.
Underdog announced on October 22, 2026, at the NEXTPredict NYC Summit that its users will be able to fund accounts with stablecoins and crypto through a partnership with onchain infrastructure provider zerohash.
Underdog expects the new funding option to reach eligible users later this year.
How the funding will work
Eligible users will be able to deposit supported stablecoins and digital assets directly into their Underdog accounts, natively within the app, as an added option alongside the existing funding rails.
Underdog said the onchain infrastructure will move money into accounts in near real time, including at night and on weekends, when fiat rails are unavailable.
The company said fantasy contests and prediction markets move quickly, so account funding must keep pace.
Underdog listed the benefits of the integration for users as:
- near-instant account funding 24/7/365;
- account-to-account funding where wallet addresses and chain selection are handled for the user; and
- added choice and flexibility in how users fund accounts.
Executive statements
“We launched our own exchange so we could move at the speed our customers expect, and funding needs to move at that same speed,” said Arthik Adla, Head of Payments at Underdog.
He said stablecoins and onchain assets bring greater choice and speed, and that the partnership will let customers fund their accounts faster, at any time and from anywhere.
Adam Tesan, Chief Revenue Officer at zerohash, said prediction markets never close and that users expect their money to keep up.
“Stablecoins solve that by moving money globally, 24/7,” he said, adding that zerohash was built to simplify that for companies like Underdog.
Licenses and the IG Group acquisition
Underdog said the integration follows the company’s launch of a federally licensed prediction market exchange, describing itself as holding a Designated Contract Market, a Derivatives Clearing Organization and a Futures Commission Merchant, all of them wholly owned and operated by the company.
IG Group Holdings plc announced on July 30, 2026, that it had agreed to acquire Underdog Sports Holdings, Inc. for up to approximately $1.3 billion in total consideration.
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