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We're trying to fix that at kalshi.com :)

Hey HN community - Kalshi is growing our team - we're hiring for engineering, finance GTM, and recruiting. Check out our roles at http://kalshi.com/careers - if you don't see a rol…

Kalshi is a financial exchange offering a new asset class - event contracts - that allows people to trade on events such as inflation, interest rates, GDP, Supreme Court decisions …

I'm sure there's a bunch of companies that have created pretty good AI powered chat bots since OpenAI. Would love recs if you know of any.

We don't do sports

If you're for everyobody, then you're for nobody!

We are perfectly allowed to be called a prediction market. That is not what I was saying in my text. We are fully regulated by the CFTC. Our ethos has been do regulation from day 1…

It's 25k downside exposure limit (doesn't mean your upside is capped at 25k). Also even if you can't hedge the exposure in its totality, it is still worth hedging a fraction of it.…

+1 on this answer - there's a ton more examples here: student loans, climate policy, hurricanes, inflation, etc.

LedgerX team is more tech savvy and higher execution team. We considered all options and LedgerX was the superior one for our needs. LedgerX is fully separated from rest of FTX fro…

love to get your thoughts on what was the main source of failure

There's a non-trivial chance we might be available in Euro area next year, but early to tell right now as we're focused on US.

We'll be exploring AND/OR and conditional markets at some point... liquidity permitting.

It's a prediction market in some ways... though prediction markets have been historically associated with unregulated venues etc. We're fully regulated by the federal government as…

Yepp! and other big players like CME. I'm super excited about that: we finally opened the space in a way that is meaningful enough for the big players to start taking note and join…

Good question. Among a number of other safeguards that I mentioned in a reply above, we often use well established and reputable data sources that either 1) already have restrictio…

Augur tried this and doesn't seem to have gained a lot traction doing so. Any staking schemes that were developed were relatively easily gamed and that led to distrust in the syste…

thank you my friend - hope you give it a spin and send feedback my way

It is a separate asset class yes. But it ties to other markets in a number of ways. In your example, there's two things you could do depending on your usecase: 1) You think inflati…

There's a few points here - I'll try to address one by one: 1) Hand-wavy exchange of money. Most of the derivatives market, including some of the most traditional instruments like …

I agree. The space is getting increasingly more savvy about how to handle this question in the derivatives markets though!

We've been committed to battling through regulations to open and expand the market for close to 4 years now. As I posted above, here's more (insider) information about what happene…

It's something we may consider in the future... there's a lot we'd need to figure out from a regulatory standpoint before we get there.