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- Kalshi taps Coinbase to secure USDC and strengthen platform trust.
- Investor interest in prediction markets surges across major platforms.
- Rising competition and clearer regulations reshape the event-trading sector.
Kalshi has strengthened its financial infrastructure by choosing Coinbase to handle USDC custody and settlement. The move gives the platform access to institutional-grade protections that mirror traditional markets. Coinbase will now manage all USDC deposits, withdrawals, and settlements on Kalshi. This approach aims to boost user confidence and support the platform as it scales its event-driven markets.
In a recent blog post, Coinbase affirmed the partnership. It said that Kalshi will protect all USDC flows through its institutional custody segment. The exchange reiterated that this arrangement provides a user with a tight, controlled security that encompasses his or her money.
The acquisition will provide Coinbase with liquidity support to Kalshi. It also obtains custody protection that covers large transaction sizes of stablecoins. All these characteristics are necessary in the prediction markets, as investors need to have predictability and good financial discipline.
Kalshi Strengthens Its Market With USDC and Coinbase Security
Through prediction markets, traders are able to sell and buy on the outcome concerning real-life events. These platforms are only effective when players have faith in the currency behind every transaction. USDC offers stable value, and Coinbase introduces a secure system, which is accepted by big institutions. They combine to provide Kalshi with a better platform of growth in event trading.
This is based on timely agreement with new regulatory clarity. In the previous month, the US Securities and Exchange Commission declared that trust companies chartered by the state may perform the function of a qualified custodian within crypto assets.
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They are, however, required to pass certain checks of oversight and compliance. In the rule, the system that used to mandate advisers to utilize federally recognized banks or trust firms is updated.
Prediction Markets Surge as Investors Drive Rapid Growth
Investors’ interest in prediction markets has soared by 2025. In its event-oriented products, DraftKings has registered over 40% growth. Gains made by Robinhood were above 420%, and this indicates the speed at which the sector is gaining pace. Such rises indicate the general move towards the markets that are based on real-world results.
Kalshi has been receiving significant funding as well. The firm was priced over $10 billion in the recent offers. This is twice the amount of the $5 billion valuation mentioned earlier in the month. In June, Kalshi raised $185 million in an evaluation of $2 billion. The round then made the total capital of it amount to $415 million.
The level of competition is increasing. Trump Media and Technology Group partnered with Crypto.com to launch Truth Predict last month. The platform also allows its users to trade the results of political and economic predictions, again putting Trump Media in rivalry with major prediction markets.
New openness is also being demonstrated by regulators. Polymarket received a no-action letter from the CFTC in September. The move enables it to offer business in the United States and is an encouragement that the prediction-market sector is in a friendlier place.
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