Hacksaw Group, the Stockholm listed B2B technology platform and game developer that trades on Nasdaq Stockholm as HACK, announced on October 15, 2026 the launch of a B2B prediction markets platform for operators, according to the company announcement distributed by ACCESS Newswire. The Malta Gaming Authority has approved an extension of Hacksaw's existing B2B Critical Gaming Supply License to cover Type 3 Gaming Services, in addition to its existing Type 1 authorization, and the extension authorizes B2B peer to peer prediction market services under the Malta framework, the company said.
The model is infrastructure, not a consumer venue. Unlike consumer facing prediction market platforms that acquire users directly, Hacksaw said it will provide the underlying technology, infrastructure and volume frameworks that let operators offer peer to peer prediction market experiences inside their own ecosystems. Operators keep ownership of their brands, customer relationships and user experiences, according to the announcement, and ReadWrite reported the same structure on October 15, noting that operators are spared building and maintaining the underlying technology themselves.
Liquidity is the design problem the launch targets. The platform is built around a connected volume framework intended to aggregate peer to peer participation across Hacksaw's network of operators, the company said, so a participating operator can access broader capacity from launch rather than building participation independently. Hacksaw said it developed the platform within its existing cost base, building on technology, know how and a development team already in place, according to the announcement.
"Prediction markets represent a compelling new opportunity," Ana Vrabic Verdir, Group CEO of Hacksaw Group, said in the announcement, describing the category as sitting at the intersection of technology, entertainment and market participation. Marcus Cordes, Operational CEO of Hacksaw Gaming, said the company created a solution that lets operators access prediction market capabilities efficiently and at scale, because Hacksaw already works closely with operators across multiple jurisdictions, according to the announcement.
The market sizing in the announcement is not Hacksaw's own forecast. The company cited Bernstein, the global equity research and brokerage firm, estimating that annual prediction market trading volumes could reach approximately 1 trillion dollars by 2030 as adoption expands across new use cases and geographies. ReadWrite, in its October 15 report, made the same distinction, noting the figure is a market wide estimate attributed to Bernstein and not a projection of Hacksaw's business.
What the announcement does not contain matters as much as what it does. Hacksaw named no operator customers, disclosed no trading volumes, revenue figures or fees, and gave no rollout schedule, ReadWrite reported on October 15. The Malta license extension, as Hacksaw described it, authorizes B2B peer to peer services under the Malta framework; it does not by itself establish where or when individual operators will offer the product to players, according to ReadWrite's reading of the announcement.
Hacksaw describes itself as operating across the whole B2B iGaming value chain, from game development to distribution, with customers that include some of the largest private and state owned iGaming operators in the industry, according to the announcement. Its existing product lines are digital slots, scratch cards and crash games, and prediction market infrastructure now joins that list, the company said.
Analysis: Hacksaw is the rent the rails model arriving from the iGaming supplier side, rather than from a United States exchange. The Agent Bets has covered United States versions of the same pattern, including Plaee integrating the CFTC regulated ProphetX exchange for operator clients, and the difference here is the regulatory paper: a Malta Type 3 extension for peer to peer services, sold through an existing supplier distribution network, instead of a designated contract market designation. That widens the infrastructure race beyond Kalshi and Polymarket's home market, but it also leaves the hardest evidence still to come. Watch for the first named operator signings, the jurisdictions those operators actually launch in, and whether Hacksaw reports any activity or revenue from the new platform, because a license extension and a press release are a supply announcement, not yet a market.