▶ 17:18 · $KALSHI · Kalshi hits $10.4B monthly volume, 11x growth in 6 months, eyes futures expansion

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Creating prediction markets (and suing the CFTC) with Tarek Mansour and Luana Lopes Lara

2026-03-17 · 1 company · 6 thematic

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Former trader and risk manager who grew up in Lebanon; co-founded Kalshi in 2018 to build a regulated 'everything exchange' for event contracts. Led the company through a multi-year regulatory battle including suing the CFTC and winning, achieving 95% US election market share. Mission-driven founder who views the company as a vehicle for the idea rather than an end in itself.

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“Volume in February was $10.4 billion. Dollars of contracts traded. And that's up 11x over 6 months... Fastest-growing company outside of AI... That has sort of dramatically outpaced the rest, our other sort of intermediary or broker busine…”

—tarek mansour

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Kalshi hits $10.4B monthly volume, 11x growth in 6 months, eyes futures expansion

Kalshi's regulated exchange model with direct consumer adoption and peer-to-peer liquidity is scaling rapidly, expanding into institutional products like futures, swaps, and compu…