Edge Markets wants to stop prediction market liquidations that happen while banks sleep

Prediction markets never close. Banks, despite decades of hints, still do.

Edge Markets, a New York-based fintech founded by Seni Thomas, is building a system to close that gap. The aim is to let institutions automatically cover margin calls on prediction markets, even after traditional banking hours end.

A margin call at 2 a.m. on a Sunday does not wait for a wire desk to open on Monday.

How EDGE Pro is supposed to work

The product is called EDGE Pro. It is designed to let financial institutions and market makers pre-authorize capital deployment to prediction markets such as Kalshi and Polymarket.

When a margin call hits, the system is built to route funds automatically to meet it. The stated goal is fewer avoidable liquidations, especially during the hours when banks are offline.

The plumbing underneath is a payment rail called EDGE Connect. It integrates with real-time payment networks like FedNow, which allows instant settlement rather than the multi-day shuffle of legacy transfers.

EDGE Pro also handles post-execution settlement across regulated venues. Under certain conditions, it allows real-time deposits of up to $10 million per day.

For institutional participants, real-time funding can reach up to $1 million per day or higher, with no deposit fees. The company says the setup is meant to stay within compliance standards set by the CFTC.

Edge Markets raised $29.2 million in a Series A round on June 8, 2026, with investors including CoinFund. That brings total funding to approximately $46–51 million. The new capital is earmarked for developing EDGE Pro, and the company is expected to roll out its features later in 2026.

Thomas framed the problem bluntly.

“Clearing houses should not have to tie up hundreds of millions of dollars simply because a margin call happens outside banking hours.”

The banking hours problem

A margin call is a demand for more collateral when a leveraged position moves against you. If the collateral does not arrive in time, the position can be liquidated, meaning it gets forcibly closed, often at a bad price.

The friction gets worse during high-volume stretches, such as the launch of new perpetual contracts.

There is also a fragmentation issue. Capital tends to sit siloed across multiple venues, each with its own funding process. EDGE Connect is pitched as a way to link activity across those separate platforms. Partnerships with River Markets, ParlayX and ProphetX are expected to expand its real-time funding reach.

What this means for traders, venues and investors

Edge Markets is positioning itself as connective tissue between always-on trading and slower regulated finance. Using FedNow while staying inside CFTC compliance standards is an attempt to borrow the speed of one world without the regulatory headaches of the other.

Pre-authorized, automated funding means capital can move without a human signing off in the moment, so the quality of the rules and controls matters a great deal.

Daily limits also matter. Caps of $1 million or higher for institutions, and up to $10 million under certain conditions, may cover many situations, but large books in a fast market could test them.

The features are not expected to arrive until later in 2026. What to watch next: the actual launch date, which venues go live with EDGE Pro first, and whether those funding limits scale as institutional demand grows.