Is Robinhood legal in Maryland?

The short answer

No: Robinhood does not offer event contracts in Maryland.

Maryland Lottery and Gaming Control Commission cease-and-desist (Apr 7, 2025); Robinhood, Event contract restrictions (help page, Oct 2026) – source

What you can trade from Maryland

Nothing: Robinhood does not offer event contracts in Maryland. Other venues here: Kalshi (disputed), Polymarket (disputed), DraftKings (not covered), FanDuel (not covered).

What Maryland's regulator has said

No action against Robinhood specifically is on record; the status above rests on the cited source.

Change log

How this compares to Maryland sports betting

Where a state allows sports betting, sportsbooks are licensed and taxed by that state; an event contract on a federal exchange is neither, which is the whole dispute. The Maryland action concerns all of Robinhood's event contracts. Whether a state may enforce at all is the question the federal appeals courts have split on. Maryland is outside the Third, Sixth and Ninth Circuits, the three appeals courts that have ruled. The question is unresolved there. Litigation tracker →