Edgeboost

EDGE Boost, a product of EDGE Markets, is a US financial platform combining a dedicated deposit account and a Visa debit card built for funding gaming and event-market transactions. Accounts are held at Cross River Bank, Member FDIC, insured up to $250,000 per depositor, with eligibility for additional coverage up to $10 million in aggregate for consumer accounts through IntraFi Network Deposits. Users link an external bank account via Plaid, transfer funds into the EDGE Boost account, and then deposit to online sportsbooks, iCasinos, daily fantasy sports, horse racing, sweepstakes platforms and arcades, or buy chips at participating land-based casinos. The stated purpose is to keep gaming-related transactions off a user's primary checking account and bank statement, which the company and reviewers describe as relevant to credit and loan underwriting; EDGE Boost does not pull a credit report.

The product carries no usage fees, no minimum balances and no maintenance costs, and pays up to 0.5% cash back on qualified deposits at eligible gaming merchants. Cardholders must be 21 or older and located in the United States. Daily deposit limits are described as up to $250,000 subject to Level 2 KYC approval, and, following the EDGE Connect integration with prediction-market exchanges, up to $1 million per day for eligible users. Virtual cards are issued instantly after approval and KYC, with a physical card mailed subsequently; the company's site also advertises card locking/unlocking, real-time balance and spend tracking, spending limits and break tools, and forthcoming linking of approved crypto wallets to convert BTC, ETH and stablecoins to USD, though one 2026 review states cryptocurrency transfers were not supported at that time.

EDGE Markets, the parent, describes itself as a financial services company building infrastructure and banking products for alternative financial markets including crypto and prediction markets. Its EDGE Connect product is a private closed-loop settlement network using FedNow rails for near real-time fund movement 24/7/365, deployed with exchanges including Kalshi, Polymarket and ProphetX.

Founding story

EDGE Boost was founded by Seni Thomas, who serves as Founder and CEO of EDGE Boost and of parent EDGE Markets, and publicly introduced the product as a way for bettors to fund wagering accounts from a dedicated account in November 2024.

Business model

EDGE Boost charges users no fees, minimum balances or maintenance costs; the company states it generates revenue only when customers use the card, earning from transaction activity at gaming and trading merchants. Cash back of up to 0.5% is returned to users on qualified spend.

Transaction-based: revenue is tied to card usage volume at gaming merchants rather than user fees, with the company stating it only generates revenue when customers use the card.

Traction

The debit card operated in stealth for three months before its March 2025 launch, by which point it had processed $300 million in transactions with a growing customer base. By August 2026 the company reported more than $2 billion in transactions processed since EDGE Boost launched, and a pilot linking cashback rewards to responsible trading tools reported a 97% opt-in rate among users.

Latest developments

In August 2026 EDGE Markets announced a partnership bringing EDGE Connect and EDGE Boost funding rails to the ProphetX sports exchange, following earlier announced partnerships with Kalshi and Polymarket, and disclosed a $29 million Series A round led by CoinFund to build out institutional and consumer banking products for prediction markets. A separate release notes a partnership with zerohash to enable compliant crypto funding for EDGE Boost accounts.