U.S. CFTC to Evaluate Prediction Market Kalshi’s Contracts to Guess on Management of Congress

The prediction markets – which permit folks “to purchase and promote contracts on whether or not occasions are going to occur or not,” as Kalshi describes it on its website – have had a tumultuous current historical past with the CFTC. Different corporations had been ordered to stop doing enterprise within the U.S., equivalent to Polymarket and PredictIt, which has been combating the CFTC in courtroom since final yr.