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Kalshi found some insider traders
Kalshi says it has opened 200 investigations into suspicious trading over the past year and recently penalized users who wagered with privileged knowledge, including a political candidate who bet on his own race and a YouTube insider with near-perfect trades. The exchange bans trading on any material nonpublic information, even in cases that may not clearly violate CFTC insider trading law, creating a stricter in-house regime than traditional commodities markets. The result is a layered enforcement landscape for prediction platforms, where platform rules, regulators, and potentially the Justice Department all shape how far fintech betting markets can go before “information advantage” becomes a legal problem.
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