Kalshi Prediction Market Pursues Tesla, Apple, Nvidia Futures

Key Insights:

• Kalshi prediction market plans to seek U.S. approval for roughly 60 perpetual futures tied to stocks and ETFs, including Tesla, Apple, and Nvidia.
• Citadel Securities opposes the plan, arguing equity-linked perps should remain under SEC oversight and warning of surveillance and insider-trading gaps from 24/7 trading.
• Kalshi’s expansion faces regulatory uncertainty, as CME is already challenging its Bitcoin perpetual approval in federal court.

Kalshi prediction market plans to seek U.S. approval for perpetual futures tied to major stocks and exchange-traded funds. The proposed contracts would bring crypto-style, round-the-clock derivatives trading to names such as Tesla, Apple, and Nvidia.

Kalshi intends to seek approval from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission for roughly 60 equity-linked perpetual contracts, according to The Wall Street Journal.

The expansion could widen Kalshi’s reach beyond prediction markets and cryptocurrency derivatives. However, Citadel Securities has pushed back against the proposal as Wall Street debates which regulator should oversee the products.

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