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Kalshi Joins Polymarket in Unicorn Club With Latest Fundraise: Report
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By Sam Reynolds|Edited by Stephen Alpher
Jun 25, 2025, 6:38 p.m.
- Prediction market Kalshi has raised over $100 million at a $1 billion valuation, following Polymarket’s similar funding news.
- Kalshi is currently seeing $113 million in trading volume across all active markets versus Polymarket with nearly $600 million.
- Kalshi hosts more active markets but trails Polymarket in open interest, indicating lower liquidity and trader conviction.
Prediction market Kalshi, a federally regulated competitor to Polymarket, has raised more than $100 million at a valuation of $1 billion, according to a report from Bloomberg.
This comes less than a day after reports emerged that Polymarket was raising $200 million at the same unicorn valuation, led by Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund.
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Publicly available data from Kalshi’s API curated by Polymarket Analytics (not affiliated with Polymarket) shows that Kalshi has around $113 million in current active trading volume across all open markets, while Polymarket has just under $600 million.
Kalshi now hosts more active markets than Polymarket, but remains behind in open interest, a key metric that reflects liquidity and trader conviction in prediction markets.
A Dune dashboard shows that Polymarket has around 186,000 active traders.
Paradigm led Kalshi’s latest round. The crypto-focused VC recently led the Series A round for GTE, a decentralized exchange (DEX) that looks to rival HyperLiquid in speed.
In January, Donald Trump Jr. announced he was joining Kalshi as a senior advisor.
Sam Reynolds is a senior reporter based in Asia. Sam was part of the CoinDesk team that won the 2023 Gerald Loeb award in the breaking news category for coverage of FTX’s collapse. Prior to CoinDesk, he was a reporter with Blockworks and a semiconductor analyst with IDC.
