Stamford, United States, August 18, 2026 (Chainwire) — Cartesian Digital, an outsourced accounting and investment operations firm serving the digital asset industry, today announced the launch of its Prediction Markets Service — a purpose-built offering that supports hedge funds, crypto funds, market makers, and proprietary trading groups with the accounting, investment operations, and reporting required to trade event-contract and perpetual-futures strategies at institutional scale.

Prediction markets have moved rapidly from the retail fringe toward the institutional mainstream, the firm noted. As U.S. regulators — notably the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, which regulates U.S. listed derivatives markets, including event contracts — have recently advanced a framework for event contracts and digital-asset perpetual futures, and as regulated venues have expanded access, professional trading firms are increasingly expressing macroeconomic, political, weather, sports, and other event views — and hedging idiosyncratic event risk — through these instruments. As a result, demand for the operational, accounting, and reporting infrastructure behind such strategies has grown in lockstep. Event contracts settle based on the outcome of a specified real-world event, while perpetual futures are derivative contracts that track an underlying asset without a fixed expiry date. For institutional back offices, that combination raises questions that traditional asset classes do not: how to value positions that resolve to a fixed payout, how to account for derivative exposure with no set expiry, and how to document the resulting treatments for auditors, regulators, and tax authorities.

Cartesian Digital's Prediction Markets Service is designed to close that operational gap. The offering spans accounting, audit and tax support, daily reporting and reconciliation, and around-the-clock investment-operations support delivered through the firm's follow-the-sun support model, which provides 24/5 coverage. The launch applies a model long familiar in traditional asset management, where hedge funds routinely outsource fund accounting and middle-office functions to specialist administrators rather than build them in-house — an approach Cartesian Digital is now extending to event contracts and digital-asset perpetual futures.

"Markets have always been prediction engines — a futures or options contract is simply a priced view on where an asset will trade in the future," said Frank Napolitani, Founder and Managing Partner of Cartesian Digital. "Prediction markets extend that same machinery from the price of an asset to the outcome of an event. Institutions are already trading these contracts; what they need is an operating partner who can stand up the accounting, operations, and reporting behind them — not another vendor."

"We built the platform so a firm can trade with confidence that its accounting, operations and reporting will hold up to auditors, regulators, and institutional investors — and scale as the strategy grows," Napolitani added.

About Cartesian Digital

Cartesian Digital describes itself as the leading outsourced accounting and investment operations firm serving the digital asset industry, and as the first specialized provider in the sector exclusively focused on supporting institutional digital asset and prediction markets trading groups. The company says its deep expertise in accounting, finance, and investment operations for institutional investment funds — combined with rising demand for cryptocurrency and prediction markets investor services — positions it to fill a significant gap in specialized service provision for the crypto and prediction market sector.

The firm states that its mission is to empower crypto fund managers and prediction markets investors with the expertise and support necessary to make strategic decisions, optimize investment operations, and achieve operational excellence in the digital assets and prediction markets space. Leveraging experience across finance, investment management, consulting, technology, and start-ups, Cartesian Digital says it has developed a profound understanding of the unique complexities within the accounting and investment operations of the cryptocurrency and prediction markets landscape, and that it is committed to helping clients succeed in this rapidly evolving market.

Cartesian Digital is based in Stamford, Connecticut, and also maintains offices in Dallas and London. More information can be found at www.o-cfodigital.io.

Media Contact: Frank Napolitani, Managing Partner, Cartesian Digital — fn@o-cfodigital.io