Kalshi adds social feed, live chat, and user profiles
Kalshi has launched Kalshi Social, a suite of community features for its regulated prediction market platform. The product includes a social feed, live chat, user profiles, community guidelines, and reporting tools. Kalshi describes the feature as a virtual trading pit where users can share trading activity and conversation. Documentation for the new tools is available in the Kalshi Help Center under the Kalshi Social collection.
Kalshi Social turns the platform from a transactional venue into a destination, which matters because user attention is the scarce resource both regulated exchanges now fight over. Polymarket answered the same problem with The Oracle, an institutional research layer aimed at sophisticated traders. Kalshi's bet is that retail traders will stay longer and trade more if they can follow, message, and copy each other in real time.
The feature set mimics crypto exchange social layers that already drive engagement and volume. For Kalshi, the risk is execution: social features demand moderation, community management, and product velocity that financial platforms rarely master. The payoff is a moat against crypto-native competitors like World that offer on-chain settlement but no social graph. Kalshi Social generates network effects, it redefines what a regulated prediction market must provide beyond yes-no contracts.
Kalshi's Social features join Polymarket's institutional research arm The Oracle as CFTC-registered venues add non-trading tools to deepen user engagement beyond pure order matching.