Modo Predicts Its Future, but Are Sweepstakes Casinos Part of It?

^{The Modo Super Gaming App will combine sweepstakes gaming, Rips, and prediction markets on one platform. (Photo: James Guill / ChatGPT)}

Modo recently received a major upgrade and may soon expand into one of America's most controversial gaming products. On Nov. 2, ARB Interactive announced the launch of Modo, America’s Super Gaming App, combining its popular social sweepstakes gaming brands in one place.

The announcement effectively rebrands Modo Casino, highlighting the full range of Modo’s gaming offerings. The company also announced plans to enter the prediction market industry.

The move follows the October launch of Sportzino Predictions, a sweepstakes-based prediction market offering contracts on politics, entertainment, and other real-world events.

While Modo hasn't announced when its prediction markets will launch, the expansion could signal growing interest among sweepstakes operators in an industry attracting both gambling companies and financial exchanges.

Modo Plans to Add Real-Money Predictions

The Modo Super Gaming App will bring several ARB Interactive products together under one account and wallet. The platform will be divided into three categories: Play, Rip and Predict.

Play includes Modo's existing sweepstakes casino games and Modo Arcade. Rip features Modo Rips, where customers can open virtual packs containing collectible cards from Pokémon and One Piece, watches, purses, or tech.

Predict is the more interesting addition. According to ARB Interactive, Modo will eventually offer real-money predictions on sports and other real-world events.

The company hasn't announced a launch date, specific markets, or how the prediction product will operate. However, the announcement that predictions will be “real money predictions” rather than sweepstakes predictions suggests the site may become a Commodity Futures Trading Commission-regulated prediction product.

Sportzino Already Offers Sweepstakes Prediction Markets

Modo isn't the first sweepstakes casino operator to explore prediction markets. Sportzino launched Sportzino Predictions in October, adding a separate prediction product to its existing sweepstakes casino and sportsbook.

Unlike Sportzino's sportsbook, which covers traditional sporting events, Sportzino Predictions focuses on non-sports markets. Available categories include politics, entertainment, economics, financial markets, technology, and other real-world events.

The product shows one way sweepstakes operators can expand beyond casino games and sports betting. However, Sportzino’s prediction product is not CFTC-regulated, which may cause problems for the site in the future.

Prediction Markets Attract More Gaming Operators

Prediction markets have attracted growing interest from companies already operating in the online gambling industry. MyPrize announced a prediction market partnership with Crypto.com in 2025, but the site has not yet launched. Meanwhile, Novig and ProphetX have moved away from their previous sweepstakes sports models toward federally regulated prediction markets.

For sweepstakes casino companies, prediction markets offer another product category at a time when state regulators and lawmakers are increasingly scrutinizing their existing business model. Sports event contracts have also become a source of disputes between federal regulators, prediction market operators, and state gaming authorities. That leaves companies entering the market with important decisions about how to structure their products and where to offer them.

Will Modo Remain in the Sweepstakes Business?

For now, Modo customers can access the company's existing gaming products through the Super Gaming App. However, adding Predictions will give players another product that doesn't depend on the sweepstakes model.

Modo Casino and Modo Arcade are based on the sweepstakes model, while Rips and the upcoming Predictions products will be cash-based. If Modo Predictions launches as a federally regulated product, Modo would have two products outside the sweepstakes model.

Sweepstakes casinos aren't disappearing, but the ground under them keeps shifting. Even as state bans and lawsuits pile up, about 130 new sweepstakes casinos opened this year against only 34 closures. The market is still growing, but it's also facing more legal risk than ever.

Modo’s move into prediction markets could mark a shift similar to Novig and ProphetX. ARB hasn't said it plans to abandon sweepstakes gaming, but its latest expansion gives the company more options if the regulatory environment continues to deteriorate.