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Kalshi’s 15-minute gold contracts outpace Ether in first full month
Estimated September fees reached $5 million for gold, though Bitcoin remained far ahead among Kalshi’s short-duration markets.
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Kalshi adds accuracy scores and trade feeds to election markets
The exchange is flagging contracts with less than $10,000 in volume as it expands coverage of races across the United States.
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Prediction markets spent at least $3 million on US political influence
Kalshi directed money to governors and attorneys general while spending nearly $1 million on federal lobbying in the first half of 2026.
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Don Davis bill would ban federal candidates from betting on their own races
The proposal would cover candidates’ families and campaigns, following Kalshi’s sanction of Davis’s Republican opponent.
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WBUR examines election prediction markets’ rise and insider-risk concerns
Here & Now host Scott Tong spoke with Anti-Corruption Data Collective co-director Michael Hornsby as political wagers surged
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Polymarket Alpha traders made about $40m as age-access debate grows
The private Discord group included at least three teenagers, while New York challenges the legality of Polymarket US contracts.
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Supreme Court leaves sports prediction-market petitions pending
The justices’ first orders list granted three unrelated cases, while responses in the New Jersey and Nevada disputes are still due this month and next.
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CFTC approves Kalshi’s perpetual future on U.S. large-cap stocks
The US500 contract uses a MerQube index of 500 companies and has no fixed expiry date.
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Kalshi opens talks with Missouri after sports-contract cease-and-desist order
The company is the first of six targeted prediction markets to respond, as a state-versus-federal regulatory fight continues.
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Nevada urges Ninth Circuit to reject Kalshi’s CFTC-rulemaking delay
The state says a potential rewrite of the event-contract rule cannot undo the panel’s conclusion that Kalshi’s sports contracts are bets, not swaps.
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Kalshi falls outside Pennsylvania’s self-exclusion system, NPR profile finds
A man who had excluded himself from DraftKings and FanDuel lost more than $25,000 on the federally supervised prediction-market platform.
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Kalshi executive calls election markets positive for democracy amid Michigan fight
Luana Lopes Lara says market prices inform voters, while Michigan and election officials raise gambling, manipulation and insider-trading concerns.