#EventContracts

Organizations (3)

• Commodity Futures Trading Commission The CFTC barred Nadex election contracts in 2012, fined Polymarket in 2022, disapproved Kalshi's congressional contracts in 2023, dropped its appeal of Kalshi's court win in 2025 and opened prediction-market rulemaking in 2026.
• Kalshi Event-contract exchange designated by the CFTC in November 2020, backed by Sequoia, Paradigm and Andreessen Horowitz, with a former CFTC commissioner on its board and Donald Trump Jr. as a strategic adviser.
• Polymarket Polymarket is a New York prediction market that a 2022 CFTC order found had run an unregistered event-contract facility, and whose investors include Founders Fund, Intercontinental Exchange and Donald Trump Jr.'s 1789 Capital.