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Kalshi is a U.S. event-contract exchange regulated by the CFTC, letting people trade on outcomes like elections, sports, and economic data.
No evidence-backed relationships are recorded.
Bitcoin came within $650 of its $87,177 Friday high on Sunday while weekly US spot ETF inflows fell to about $83 million from $2.39 billion. October's seasonal record now has to carry a rally that fund money is backing at a fraction of September's pace.
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D. Todd Christofferson, one of the Latter-day Saints' three top leaders, called prediction markets gambling that yields "nothing of value." The speech sets the Utah-based church against the Trump administration's view that Kalshi and Polymarket are not gambling.
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Economist Victor Matheson puts 2025 US sports betting on prediction markets at $50 billion to $100 billion, handle that state regulators cannot see. Kalshi's pending federal appeals will shape whether that money stays outside state gambling law.
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Judge Martha Pacold on October 2 partly enjoined Illinois licensing of Kalshi and Coinbase sports contracts as likely preempted by federal law. Illinois' transaction fees went to further briefing, so the per-trade cost of serving the state is still unsettled.
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CFTC sent the White House two rules on Sept. 28 that would define event contracts as swaps and carve out casino-style gambling products. The agency is trying to settle by rule a state-federal fight that has split appeals courts and now sits before the Supreme Court.
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Kalshi is in advanced talks to raise about $1 billion at a $40 billion valuation, 3.6 times the $11 billion it was worth in December 2025. Most of the volume behind that price comes from sports contracts, so the new investors are betting that regulators and courts keep allowing them.
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Former Representative Adam Kinzinger is under CFTC investigation over Kalshi bets on his own pardon that made him $823, Politico reported. Exchanges listing markets on named people must now decide whether being a contract's subject is enough to bar a trade.
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Kalshi will end its volume rebate on or after October 13 as the CFTC reportedly reviews over $5 billion in repeated ether perpetual trades. Kalshi says paid market makers produced those prints, leaving investors at a $40 billion valuation to judge how much liquidity was bought.
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Polymarket has added deposit caps users cannot reverse, plus self-exclusion, after sports and parlays took over 98% of its September trading volume. Kalshi, which the CFTC regulates, already offered the same tools, so they help Polymarket defend itself in New York's gambling suit as much as they make it look like a sportsbook.
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Robinhood said eligible US customers will trade eight crypto perpetual futures in its app within months, with up to 10x leverage on bitcoin and ether. The product brings leverage US retail traders mostly found on offshore exchanges into a mainstream American brokerage.
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Polymarket, valued at about $21 billion, hired ex-Goldman partner Lisa Mantil to bring big traders onto its US exchange. She starts selling while federal investigators, House members and New York officials still dispute how its contracts should be policed.
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Kalshi took $15.8 billion of the $20.4 billion prediction markets traded last week, per Artemis, the first week above $20 billion. It books each contract at its $1 payout, so the record counts payouts written, well above the cash traders put at risk.
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Kalshi lost its Tennessee injunction at the Sixth Circuit, putting states ahead 2-1 in appeals courts over its sports contracts. New York's suit against Polymarket prices a loss at the alleged gains plus a penalty three times as large.
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OG.com Markets asked the CFTC to approve cash-settled perpetual futures on single US stocks, trading 24 hours a day on weekdays at a 15.05% minimum margin. At about 6 times leverage they would sell the trade margin accounts now offer, so brokers will pick the winning venue.
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New York Attorney General Letitia James sued Polymarket as an unlicensed gambling business, the state's fourth such case, and Polymarket countersued within hours. Platforms are now setting age limits and state-by-state access while courts decide whether states or the CFTC govern prediction markets.
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Sixth Circuit judges let Ohio and Tennessee enforce gambling law against Kalshi's sports contracts, putting two of three appeals courts on the states' side. New Jersey's contrary ruling still stands, so the same federally registered contract now has a different legal status depending on the state.
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JPMorgan ended Polymarket's primary banking relationship over regulatory risk in October, around the time ICE put an initial $1 billion in at a roughly $8 billion valuation.
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The city's consumer protection claims name the brokers that distribute Kalshi's sports event contracts, not just the exchange. Distribution is now part of the legal exposure.
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A King County judge ordered Kalshi to block sports, elections, politics and entertainment contracts in the state while leaving commodities, climate, economics and finance markets running.
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Trump is expected to join crypto, prediction market and AI executives on the 19th, with CME, Nasdaq, ICE and DTCC also invited. The CFTC's new advisory committee meets the next day.
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