Public launches AI trading agents on Kalshi's prediction markets
Public launched AI trading agents for prediction markets on September 24, 2026, through a partnership with Kalshi. The integration gives Public's retail users direct access to trade Kalshi's CFTC-regulated event contracts. Members can deploy automated strategies on prediction markets or use market-implied probabilities as trading signals for other asset classes. Public described itself as the world's first agentic brokerage.
The partnership makes Kalshi the underlying engine for the first major brokerage-led AI agent play in prediction markets. Public's retail user base now automates event-contract strategies without choosing the exchange directly, masking Kalshi's brand behind Public's interface. That shifts Kalshi's role toward invisible infrastructure provider, a model that scales volume but leaves it dependent on partners for trader relationships.
For Public, the move tests whether AI agents can convert prediction-market data into cross-asset trading signals beyond event contracts. The product's stickiness this quarter will determine whether rivals like Robinhood and FanDuel Predicts must match the agent layer or cede the automation narrative. If traders treat Kalshi probabilities as systematic inputs for equities and crypto, the partnership redefines prediction markets as a data layer rather than a destination.
Public joins Kalshi's recent tribal partnership with SaltTrade as the exchange's second major distribution expansion this quarter, deepening its retail channel strategy after the Tunica-Biloxi tribe became the first tribal app partner days earlier.