Kalshi joins Digital Chamber to boost prediction-market lobbying
Kalshi has joined the Digital Chamber, a Washington, D.C.-based crypto trade association, as a member. The federally regulated prediction-market platform will work with the group to advocate for favorable policy treatment of event contracts in Congress and before regulatory agencies. The Digital Chamber said it will collaborate with Kalshi to educate policymakers on how federally regulated event contracts differ from gaming products. Kalshi was founded in 2018. No timing, specific initiatives, or membership terms were disclosed.
The Digital Chamber now carries Kalshi into the same lobbying fights where Congress and the CFTC are squeezing sports event contracts. The trade group must reconcile its traditional crypto membership with a regulated platform that needs distance from gambling labels. Kalshi gains a shared voice in the Senate bill debate that would ban sports contracts outright, but the Chamber's credibility depends on keeping its message distinct from unregulated offshore betting.
If lawmakers lump prediction markets with gaming, the Chamber's entire coalition loses policy ground, not just Kalshi. Polymarket is not in the group, so Kalshi may shape the Chamber's event-contract narrative alone. The CFTC's March 2026 duck-test warning on gambling odds means the education mission cannot wait for a later legislative session. Kalshi's defining task with the Chamber is to make the derivative-versus-bet distinction stick before a court or Congress decides otherwise.