Plaid: Gaming Fraud Has Become a Network Problem Spanning Sportsbooks, DFS, and Prediction Markets

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Plaid argues that fraud across sportsbooks, daily-fantasy, sweepstakes, and prediction markets can no longer be caught by per-operator tools and now requires network-level identity and risk signals shared across operators. The framing positions identity/risk infrastructure as a shared utility rather than a per-app feature — a quiet displacement of standalone anti-fraud SaaS by consortium-style data networks. It mirrors the broader pattern of moats shifting from features to cross-customer data networks.