Platform · Opinion Markets
PlayerzPot
Specialized cricket opinion-trading platform · player-performance markets. Defunct real-money under PROGA 2025 (already suspended in Haryana/Tamil Nadu June 2025 pre-PROGA).
- Mechanism
- Opinion Markets
- Status
- Defunct (PROGA + already suspended Haryana/Tamil Nadu Jun 2025)
- Founded
- 2015 (X account @PlayerzPot created Dec 22, 2014); last tweet Aug 6, 2024
- Market types
- Binary · Sports
- Audience
- Retail · Sports
- Website
- playerzpot.com
- @PlayerzPot
Pricing mechanism
Centralized matching
Settlement
Centralized operator
Strengths
- Diversified portfolio across cricket/football/kabaddi/esports/casual · broader than cricket-only competitors
- Gameskraft investor (industry insider) · meaningful endorsement
- $3.08M raised across seed + Series A · modest cushion to pivot or wait out PROGA legal challenge
Weaknesses
- FY25 revenue fell -45% YoY pre-PROGA · business was already eroding before national ban
- Headcount cut -61% YoY (87 to 34 by Aug 2025) · execution capacity halved
- Suspended in Haryana + Tamil Nadu pre-PROGA (June 2025) · sequence of state bans hit before national
- X account silent for 21+ months · public-facing brand has gone dark
- Website appears offline in May 2026 spot check
About this mechanism
India-primary opinion-trading category · Yes/No contracts on sports, politics, weather, entertainment in INR. Subject to PROGA (May 2026) which classified them as 'online money games' and banned national real-money operation.