Competing designated contract market
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Continues listing sports event contracts under legal challenge
In January 2026, CME began listing event contract swaps on sports and cultural awards. On September 11, after seven filings that added football, basketball, tennis, elections and the Oscars, the exchange stopped adding new expiries.
Updated 20 hours ago
Appealing Utah's ban to the 10th Circuit
Utah can keep enforcing its ban on sports-style prediction bets while Kalshi appeals. The 10th Circuit on September 10 declined to pause the state's prop betting law, rejecting the company's request to keep trading during the appeal.
Updated 2 days ago
Raised $1 billion at a $22 billion valuation on May 7, 2026; facing criminal charges in Arizona, an operational injunction in Nevada, and civil lawsuits from Washington state while holding a favorable Third Circuit ruling on federal preemption
Kalshi closed a $1 billion funding round on May 7 at a $22 billion valuation, led by Coatue Management with Morgan Stanley, Sequoia, Andreessen Horowitz, Paradigm, IVP, and ARK Invest. Annualized trading volume reached $178 billion, up from $52 billion six months earlier, and Kalshi now accounts for more than 90% of U.S. prediction market activity.
Updated May 31
Operating as CFTC-registered designated contract market
Prediction markets have existed in legal limbo since 2003, when U.S. senators killed a Pentagon program that would have let people bet on terrorist attacks. An Israeli reservist and civilian face prosecution for using classified military intelligence to profit $150,000 on Polymarket, placing suspiciously accurate bets on the June 2025 Israel-Iran war — a first.
Updated May 29
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