TL;DR
- Kalshi made live sports and crypto perpetuals order-book data available through DoubleZero Edge’s dedicated fiber network for subscribers seeking structured, machine-readable market information.
- Sports account for 37.8% of Kalshi’s weekly notional volume and crypto 20.3%, making the two categories targets for institutional-grade data distribution.
- The rollout arrives amid disputes over Kalshi’s sports contracts, with several states challenging the platform while the CFTC argues regulated event contracts fall under its authority.
Kalshi has expanded its prediction-market infrastructure by making live sports and crypto perpetuals order-book data available through DoubleZero Edge’s dedicated fiber network. The companies say the integration gives new subscribers a machine-readable feed without forcing them to reconstruct market information from application programming interfaces and fragmented order books. The unusual part is not simply faster data delivery, but the attempt to give prediction markets infrastructure associated with institutional trading venues. Kalshi says it is the first prediction market to distribute real-time order-book data for these event-contract categories through this type of network for institutional trading workflows.
Prediction markets just got Wall Street-grade trading infrastructure.@Kalshi’s live order book is now streaming on @DoubleZero Edge, a multi-venue, real-time market-data platform.
Institutional-grade market data is now open to anyone, anywhere. pic.twitter.com/SU6qMwPfTm
— DoubleZero (@doublezero) August 12, 2026
Dedicated fiber brings institutional infrastructure to prediction markets
DoubleZero co-founder Austin Federa described data access as a critical component of market structure that has been missing from newer financial categories including crypto, perpetuals and prediction markets. The dedicated feed is intended to reduce the technical burden for firms that need continuous, structured information for trading systems or analysis. That changes the competitive question from who can access Kalshi’s markets to who can consume them efficiently at machine speed. For professional participants, standardized delivery could matter as much as the underlying contracts because infrastructure quality affects how quickly information can be processed and acted upon.
Sports and crypto already represent substantial parts of Kalshi’s activity. Sports account for 37.8% of weekly notional volume, making them the platform’s second-largest category, while crypto ranks third at 20.3%. Exotics remain first with 39.4%. The figures help explain why Kalshi chose these areas for the DoubleZero rollout: together, sports and crypto make up well over half of weekly notional volume. By exposing those order books through dedicated fiber, Kalshi is effectively prioritizing the segments where institutional-grade distribution could have the most immediate relevance to active users and data consumers.
The expansion arrives while Kalshi’s sports contracts remain entangled in a jurisdictional fight between state regulators and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. Michigan temporarily blocked sports-event betting on the platform, Kentucky sued Kalshi and other prediction markets over alleged unlicensed sports betting, and Nevada also imposed a temporary ban. Meanwhile, the CFTC has sued several states, arguing that federally regulated event contracts fall under its exclusive authority. That legal backdrop makes the infrastructure launch especially striking: Kalshi is improving market access and data delivery even as regulators continue debating what kind of market its sports contracts legally represent.
