Kalshi adds risk scores, employment checks and whistleblower tools after first surveillance audit
Kalshi rolled out three market-integrity tools on June 10 after its Surveillance Audit Committee completed its first review. The CFTC-regulated prediction market now assigns risk scores to every listed contract, requires users in certain markets to disclose their employers, and has expanded its whistleblower portal for reporting suspicious activity. Robert DeNault, Kalshi's head of enforcement, addressed insider-trading concerns in remarks reported Tuesday, June 9. The measures took effect immediately. Across the prediction-market sector, annual revenue has surpassed $1.5 billion, according to industry estimates.
Kalshi must now prove its combined risk-scoring and employment-verification systems can catch informed traders before they profit. Any gap leaves the CFTC-registered exchange exposed as a co-defendant when DOJ and CFTC file parallel insider-trading actions.
Kalshi joins Polymarket under pressure to prove surveillance works when election-betting volume overwhelms real-time monitoring, after both platforms faced DOJ-CFTC parallel actions this week.