Prediction Market News: Kalshi Reportedly Raises $100M

Prediction market Kalshi, a federally regulated competitor to Polymarket, has raised greater than $100 million at a valuation of $1 billion, in line with a report from Bloomberg.

This comes lower than a day after stories emerged that Polymarket was elevating $200 million on the identical unicorn valuation, led by Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund.

Publicly accessible knowledge from Kalshi’s API curated by Polymarket Analytics (not affiliated with Polymarket) exhibits that Kalshi has round $113 million in present lively buying and selling quantity throughout all open markets, whereas Polymarket has slightly below $600 million.

Kalshi now hosts extra lively markets than Polymarket, however stays behind in open curiosity, a key metric that displays liquidity and dealer conviction in prediction markets.

A Dune dashboard exhibits that Polymarket has round 186,000 lively merchants.

Paradigm led Kalshi’s newest spherical. The crypto-focused VC not too long ago led the Series A spherical for GTE, a decentralized alternate (DEX) that appears to rival HyperLiquid in velocity.

In January, Donald Trump Jr. introduced he was becoming a member of Kalshi as a senior advisor.