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Event contract regulation

The legal treatment of contracts whose payout depends on a future event, including their classification as swaps under US commodities law and oversight of the venues that list them.

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Kalshi fined Santos exactly four times the $17,839 he made betting on his own attendance

The exchange's penalty came in at roughly double the CFTC's settlement over the same trades, which makes this the first case where a prediction-market venue priced its own integrity failure higher than its regulator did.

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Builder 15%
Operator
Operator 49%
Investor
Investor 36%

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Evidence84
Adoption71
Hype gap+14
Incentives62
Confidence79