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Kalshi launches its crypto perpetuals amidst legal battle

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Kalshi has launched crypto perpetual contracts for assets including BTC, ETH, and BNB, with up to 6x leverage.

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Kalshi has just passed a milestone. The predictive markets platform recorded 15.4 million visits from the United States in July 2026, compared to barely 1 million a year earlier. This represents a 1,520% increase, according to Similarweb data consulted by Cointelegraph on Friday. Trading volume is following an even faster pace. Approximately 40 billion dollars in monthly notional volume in August, compared to 874 million a year ago. But the truly game-changing news is elsewhere. Kalshi has just launched crypto perpetual contracts, including BTC, ETH, BNB, and 14 other assets, with up to 6x leverage. A pivot that complicates an already heavy regulatory file. In short, Kalshi: dizzying traffic and volumes The figures speak for themselves. US traffic accounted for nearly 80% of Kalshi's total in July, compared to 72.8% a year earlier. Growth remains massively concentrated on the American market. Sports contracts, for their part, accounted for 83% of July's trading volume, Barron's reported on Thursday. In terms of volume, the entire predictive markets industry grew from 2 to 50.7 billion dollars monthly over the period, with Kalshi alone capturing nearly 79% of the total. Kalshi has not just grown; it has absorbed the entire market. The notable fact here is that traffic is also increasing from jurisdictions where Kalshi is not allowed to operate directly: Kalshi circumvented...

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