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Predictive market platform Kalshi has punished three unnamed United States political candidates for taking part in “insider trading” by betting on their own campaigns. In a statement on Wednesday, Kalshi explained
Kalshi has recently been valued at $22bn and Polymarket at $9bn. Prediction market users are disproportionately under the age of 45 and 71% are men, according to a recent study from analytics firm Morning Consult
Kalshi, paving the way for bets to be placed on political events like elections. Since then, prediction markets have proliferated in the US, with some bets raising questions about the prospect of insider trading. Critics
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