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Kalshi holds $9.6bn of $10bn weekly non-sports volume

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Kalshi holds $9.6bn of $10bn weekly non-sports volume

Kalshi has captured $9.6bn of $10bn in weekly non-sports volume as brokerages race to embed its contracts.

The hit

Public has launched AI agents that trade Kalshi event contracts & use their probabilities to trigger trades elsewhere in a customer’s portfolio, according to FinanceFeeds. Members set the conditions & actions, then review & approve the plan before the agent runs. Kalshi supplies the contracts & execution.

Why it matters

This pushes prediction-market prices beyond display into automated portfolio triggers, a step further than Tradeweb’s institutional price feeds. Kalshi gains another distribution channel as brokerages compete to embed its contracts. But an event-contract probability is a market price, not a verified forecast, & can swing on liquidity or positioning as well as new information, meaning a cross-asset rule could fire on a temporary move.

The record

Kalshi’s share of weekly non-sports volume $9.6bn of $10bn (FinanceFeeds)
Co-CEO & Co-Founder comment Leif Abraham: prediction markets give agents “a new input: real-world events”
Regulator involved Kalshi is a CFTC-regulated designated contract market
Regulatory warning CFTC warned in February about fraud & misuse of nonpublic information in prediction markets

What happens next

Public users setting conditional instructions will need to weigh thresholds, position limits & the risk of rapid reversals before letting an agent act, according to FinanceFeeds.

Sources: Public AI Agents Trade Kalshi Odds and Trigger Stock Orders

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