Top Trending: Verse Gaming Offers First Parlay Prediction Platform in US

A new app from Verse Gaming allows users to bundle predictions across sports, politics, entertainment, breaking news, and more as the company pivots away from its Daily Fantasy Sports model. Scroll down for all the latest gambling news headlines and what is currently trending on Gambling911.com. 

CEO Daniel Zimmermann described this as “a platform so compelling we’re confident enough to close down our DFS operation on the eve of the NFL season" in an exclusive interview with BettingStartups on Wednesday. 

Verse first launched in 2023. It claimed to be the first DFS platform to allow customers to stake real money behind their season-long fantasy teams’ moneylines and spreads.

With the latest concept, users can now combine 2–8 picks into a single entry across categories ranging from fantasy football to politics and pop culture.

From BettingStartups: 

Unlike traditional sportsbooks or prediction markets, Verse runs nationwide through a sweepstakes model where contests are free to enter with real cash prizes available to eligible winners—allowing the product to operate in 39 states as well as D.C.

“Parlays are the path to a risk-a-little, win-a-lot experience most gamblers chase,” Zimmermann wrote in an August blog post. The Verse chief executive also cited data that parlays made up 71% of New Jersey’s regulated sportsbook revenue at the start of last football season.

Indeed, last year parlays reportedly accounted for over 85% of the US regulated sportsbook DraftKings' profits in a single quarter.

Zimmermann thinks the “prediction wars” won’t be won on single-game contracts or political markets alone.

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