CFTC proposes permanent reporting framework for event-contract trader data
The CFTC proposed a permanent reporting framework for regulated event contracts that would replace temporary relief measures. The rule, noted in public filings between June 25 and July 1, 2026, would require exchanges to collect occupation, employer, and other trader information from prediction market participants. The proposal covers fully collateralized event contracts and opens a public comment period, signaling the agency's push to bring data reporting for these markets under a stable long-term structure.
Kalshi, Polymarket, and every other CFTC-registered exchange must now build or buy systems that capture occupation and employer data from every participant trading event contracts. That shifts a temporary compliance burden into a fixed cost of doing business, with the comment period as the only window to soften the fields or frequency of reporting.
Exchanges that delayed infrastructure decisions while relief was in place face a hard deadline to stand up permanent data pipelines. The first platform to fail an audit under the final rule will hand the CFTC a clear enforcement template, and competitors will absorb that precedent into their own compliance budgets whether or not they were the initial target.
The CFTC has now floated distinct rulemakings on public-interest standards for sports contracts and permanent reporting for event contracts, forcing Kalshi and Polymarket to navigate parallel comment periods that will shape what markets they can list and what trader data they must collect.