The Supreme Court Could Eventually Decide If Kalshi Is Just Sports Gambling

By

Matt Stieb,

Intelligencer staff writer

Good news for people who dislike the gambling-ification of seemingly everything in America: Kalshi could be in trouble. Last week, a federal judge ruled against the leading prediction market, determining the State of New York has the authority to regulate sports betting on the website, even up to the point of banning it altogether. Outright prohibition would be a serious blow for Kalshi as it tries to expand amid the loose regulatory environment of the Trump administration; as much as 80 percent of Kalshi’s business is sports related.