More than a month after announcing plans to move deeper into prediction markets, Coinbase said it would launch its offering for ”sports, politics, culture and more.” Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase announced the rollout of prediction markets offering in all 50 US states in partnership with Kalshi. In a Wednesday X post, Coinbase said it was offering trades on “any real-world outcomes across sports, politics, culture and more” following the launch of prediction markets. The announcement followed the exchange’s plans for onchain prediction markets in partnership with Kalshi in December. Event contracts on prediction market platforms such as Kalshi and Polymarket allow users to bet on the outcomes of a variety of topics, from sporting events to US politics, with the probability of each event assigned by user participation. The launch came about a week ahead of one of the biggest sporting events in the US, the National Football League’s Super Bowl championship game. Read more
The predictions market platform announced two new hires related to state policy efforts and relations with the federal government. Predictions market platform Kalshi said it will open an office in Washington, D.C., and hire “talent from both sides of the aisle” as part of the company’s efforts to expand its US footprint. In a Monday notice, Kalshi said it had hired former Biden administration official John Bivona as the prediction market’s head of federal government relations, and Blake Bee, a former Amazon senior manager of state and local public policy. The move came as many bets on prediction markets such as Kalshi and Polymarket are under scrutiny by US federal lawmakers and state officials. Read more
The preliminary injunction against the prediction markets platform reportedly came at the request of Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell. Prediction markets platform Kalshi could face legal complications operating in the US state of Massachusetts after a judge reportedly ruled that residents could not use the website for sports betting. According to a Tuesday Reuters report, Suffolk County Superior Court Judge Christopher Barry-Smith said he would issue a preliminary injunction against Kalshi prohibiting the platform from offering sports betting for residents without the required gaming license. The ruling followed Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell filing a lawsuit against Kalshi in September, alleging that the platform offered “illegal and unsafe sports wagering.” According to Reuters, Tuesday’s injunction came at Campbell’s request. Read more
Tennessee regulator warned that failure to comply could trigger steep fines, court injunctions and potential law enforcement referrals for for further investigation. Tennessee’s sports betting regulator has ordered prediction market platforms Kalshi, Polymarket and Crypto.com to halt the offering of sports event contracts to residents of the state. In cease-and-desist letters dated Friday, the Tennessee Sports Wagering Council (SWC) accused all three platforms of illegally offering sports wagering products without holding a license issued under the Tennessee Sports Gaming Act, according to copies of the letters published on X by sports betting attorney Daniel Wallach. The SWC said the sports event contracts listed on Kalshi, Polymarket and Crypto.com’s North American Derivatives Exchange allow users to wager money on the outcome of sporting events, a practice Tennessee law reserves exclusively for licensed sportsbooks. The regulator argued that packaging the products as “event contracts” does not exempt them ...
The wallet-native feature lets users trade tokenized event contracts across politics, economics and culture without leaving Phantom. Crypto wallet application Phantom has partnered with regulated prediction market Kalshi to bring event-based trading directly into its wallet interface, signaling a deeper convergence between onchain finance and real-world outcome betting. The companies said on Friday that the integration would allow Phantom users to discover trending events, track live odds and place bets without leaving their wallets. A new feature called Phantom Prediction Markets will allow users to trade tokenized positions that reference Kalshi’s event markets across politics, economics, sports and culture. Read more
XRP traders are eyeing a rally, Kalshi taps Solana, Peter Schiff fails to authenticate gold bar during onstage test with CZ: Hodler’s Digest Two long-dormant Casascius coins each backed by 1,000 Bitcoin have just been activated as of Friday, unlocking more than $179 million stashed away for more than 13 years. Onchain data indicates that one of the Casascius coins was minted in October 2012, when Bitcoin was trading for $11.69. The other was minted earlier in December 2011, when Bitcoin was valued at only $3.88, giving that Casascius coin a theoretical return of about 2.3 million percent, not including the cost of minting. Read more
Kalshi will provide real-time prediction data across CNBC’s TV, digital and subscription platforms beginning in 2026 as part of a mult-year partnership. CNBC has entered a multi-year partnership with prediction market operator Kalshi to incorporate real-time forecasting data across its TV, digital and subscription platforms. According to Thursday’s announcement, Kalshi’s event probability data will be integrated into CNBC programming beginning in 2026, including on shows such as “Squawk Box” and “Fast Money,” with a dedicated ticker displaying forecast moves in real-time. Kalshi will also launch a CNBC-branded page on its platform featuring markets selected by the network. Read more
Kalshi has doubled its valuation after its latest Series E funding round, which come as the prediction market posted record trading volumes last month. Prediction market Kalshi has closed a $1 billion funding round at a valuation of $11 billion, after seeing its best-ever monthly volume in November. Confirming an earlier report by TechCrunch, Kalshi said on Tuesday that its latest Series E round was led by the crypto-focused venture firm Paradigm, with participation from other crypto-engaged VCs Sequoia, Andreessen Horowitz and Cathie Wood’s ARK Invest. “Kalshi is replacing debate, subjectivity, and talk with markets, accuracy, and truth,” said Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour. “We have created a new way of consuming and engaging with information.” Read more
The move could challenge other prediction platforms by providing Kalshi users with greater anonymity through tokenized buys and sales on the Solana blockchain. Predictions platform Kalshi has reportedly begun allowing users to buy and sell tokenized versions of its event contracts on the Solana blockchain. According to a Monday CNBC report, Kalshi has moved closer to courting cryptocurrency users by offering tokenized contracts, which are now live on Solana. The move tokenized bets on the predictions platform, which includes US elections, sports and more, making them tradeable on the blockchain. “There’s a lot of power users in crypto,” John Wang, Kalshi’s head of crypto, told CNBC. “This is about tapping into the billions of dollars of liquidity that crypto has, and then also enabling developers to build third-party front ends that utilize Kalshi’s liquidity.” Read more
Kalshi has joined predictions market rival Polymarket in the $10 billion-plus valuation club after reportedly raising another $1 billion from Sequoia Capital and CapitalG. Predictions market platform Kalshi has reportedly raised an additional $1 billion from at least two venture capital firms, increasing its valuation to $11 billion. Kalshi’s latest funding round was led by Sequoia Capital and CapitalG, according to a report on Thursday from TechCrunch that cited a person familiar with the matter. Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), Paradigm, Anthos Capital and Neo were among the other Kalshi investors that sat out on the latest $1 billion funding round. Read more
RedStone’s partnership with Kalshi bridges regulated event data and DeFi, unlocking new use cases across over 110 networks. Oracle provider RedStone has integrated event-driven market data from the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC)-regulated financial exchange and prediction market Kalshi across over 110 blockchains, expanding access to real-world prediction data for decentralized applications (DApps). RedStone announced the partnership with Kalshi on Thursday, bringing its prediction market data to more than 110 networks, including Ethereum, Solana, Base, The Open Network and Sui. The integration allows DApps to access Kalshi’s data sets that cover events like elections, interest rate decisions and cultural moments like musician Taylor Swift’s live television appearances. The CFTC regulates Kalshi as a designated contract market (DCM), which means markets listed on Kalshi must receive CFTC approval before trading. On Oct. 10, Kalshi raised $300 million to expand its prediction markets to over 1...
Polymarket’s rival prediction marketplace Kalshi told Cointelegraph that its platform will be restricted in 38 jurisdictions, including France and the UK. United States-based prediction marketplace Kalshi closed another major funding round to bring its platform to more than 100 countries worldwide. Kalshi completed a Series D funding round of over $300 million led by Sequoia Capital and Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), with participation by Paradigm, the company announced on Friday. The platform is immediately available in over 140 countries, Kalshi said in a statement shared with Cointelegraph, adding that it has now emerged as the “world’s only unified global prediction market and instantly added billions of new potential customers.” Read more
In comments to Cointelegraph, Kalshi claimed that Massachusetts is “trying to block Kashi’s innovations by relying on outdated laws." Prediction market platform Kalshi has vowed to fight a new lawsuit from the US state of Massachusetts, which accuses the company of offering unlicensed sports betting to residents. “We are proud to be the company that has pioneered this technology and stand ready to defend it once again in a court of law,” a spokesperson for Kalshi told Cointelegraph on Friday. “Prediction markets are a critical innovation of the 21st century, and all Americans should be able to access them,” Kalshi added. Read more
El Salvador President Nayib Bukele drew attention to lively betting activity on El Salvador’s Bitcoin holdings hitting $1 billion by late 2025. El Salvador President Nayib Bukele called attention to prediction markets amid increasing bets that the country’s Bitcoin holdings will hit $1 billion by year-end. Bukele took to X on Wednesday to tweet about Kalshi’s prediction market, which shows increasing betting activity on El Salvador’s Bitcoin (BTC) holdings hitting $1 billion by late 2025. “I could do the funniest thing right now,” Bukele said, as the odds of El Salvador hitting a $1 billion Bitcoin milestone before November jumped from 20% to 38% on Kalshi. Read more