Kalshi boosts surveillance ahead of Super Bowl with independent committee

Kalshi has seen nearly $170 million in Super Bowl-related bets, and its move to boost oversight comes as prediction markets come under scrutiny by regulators and Congress.

Kalshi says it’s expanding surveillance on its prediction markets platform with an independent advisory committee and partnerships to catch insider trading and market manipulation just days ahead of the Super Bowl.

Kalshi said on Thursday that the committee would give a quarterly rundown to the company’s outside counsel and publish statistics on investigations into suspicious activity on the platform. 

It is also teaming up with crypto trading surveillance platform Solidus Labs and the director of Wharton Forensic Analytics Lab, Daniel Taylor, “to detect, investigate, and address market abuse.”

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