Where is Novig legal? The states Novig is available in

Novig’s own state page, updated 4 November 2026, says it is “available nationwide except Arizona, Nevada, Michigan and Ohio” — live in 46 states plus Washington, DC. Its help centre has not caught up: the eligibility article (2 September 2026) still lists only Nevada, Arizona and Michigan. We follow the newer page.

Eligibility depends on where you are, “not your billing address”, and Novig checks your location each time you open the app to trade. If you travel into an excluded state, open positions still settle, but you “won’t be able to create any new orders, deposit, or withdraw” until you leave. State-by-state detail, including the other apps open in each state, is on our US availability pages.

Novig is the brand of Ludlow Exchange, LLC, which the CFTC designated as a contract market on 16 June 2026. Trades clear through Bitnomial Clearinghouse, and contracts are fully collateralised. Its help centre says Novig operates “under federal commodities law… rather than under state sweepstakes or sports betting law”. That is the same argument Kalshi makes: event contracts on a federally designated exchange are not sports bets that a state licenses.

So “Novig sportsbook” is a misnomer. Novig lists sports event contracts — straight trades, parlays and futures — whose other side is taken by other traders, sometimes Novig’s own affiliated market makers; it does not set odds as a bookmaker does. Before its CFTC designation it ran a sweepstakes model with Novig Cash and Novig Coins, which its help centre says are now retired. We found no casino product on any of Novig’s pages.

21, everywhere. The Member Agreement requires individual members to be “at least twenty-one (21) years of age”, and Novig’s launch post calls this “a deliberate choice, not a regulatory minimum” — other CFTC-regulated venues accept 18-year-olds.

Ohio is the latest exclusion. Novig’s own blog reports that the Ohio Casino Control Commission sent it a cease-and-desist on 2 October 2026, setting 16 October to stop; we could not open the notice on the commission’s site, so this rests on Novig’s account.

Elsewhere Novig has gone to court first. As Ludlow Exchange it has sued state officials in New York (S.D.N.Y. 1:26-cv-06676), Washington, New Mexico, Massachusetts (stayed pending Kalshi’s appeal), Wisconsin and, most recently, Missouri (E.D. Mo. 4:26-cv-01780, filed 16 October 2026). It still lists all six as available. A ruling in any of them could change that, so check before you rely on it; every state action on prediction markets is in our regulation tracker.