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  "angle": "Kalshi's perpetuals and art markets show the tradable universe is expanding faster than the rulebook.",
  "headline": "Everything is becoming a tradable market, and Kalshi just proved the demand",
  "dek": "Kalshi reached $5B in perpetuals volume in its first week. Art auctions are now prediction markets. Goldman says private equity sports deals nearly quadrupled since 2018. Everything is becoming a market.",
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      "text": "Kalshi reached $5B in notional trading volume since launching perpetuals on Nov. 5, 2026.",
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      "heading": "Perpetuals, fast",
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          "markdown": "Kalshi reached $5B in notional trading volume since launching perpetuals on Nov. 5, 2026. That is the clearest signal yet that the appetite for new kinds of contracts is not theoretical. Perpetuals provide delta-one exposure to stocks, similar to ETFs, but with leverage attached: the maximum leverage for stock perpetual futures is approximately 6.45x, and Kalshi's stock-perpetual margin framework requires a minimum customer margin of 15.5% of notional exposure. Losses on a long or short perpetual can exceed the initial margin, which Kalshi states plainly in its own explainer.",
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          "markdown": "The product is built for traders who find options too fiddly. Perpetuals are more flexible than stock option trades because traders do not face exercise or deadlines to close contracts, and traders can go long or short on perpetuals without covering short sales. Perpetual futures avoid rollover fees, using periodic funding payments instead, and funding cost adjustments for crypto perpetuals are computed three times daily. Kalshi uses its own futures commission merchant, Kalshi Prime, and Kalshi Klear runs two scheduled daily settlement cycles at noon and 4 p.m. ET. The plumbing matters here because it is the point: a regulated exchange is offering crypto-style leverage on stocks, with its own clearing, and the volume arrived immediately.",
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          "markdown": "The same week, Kalshi and Artnet announced a partnership on November 11, 2026, to bring art market expertise to prediction markets. Artnet will provide the data used to settle Kalshi's art markets and will propose market topics for Kalshi's consideration, while Kalshi designs the contracts, operates the exchange, and resolves markets under its regulatory framework. Artnet has nearly four decades of data and expertise, was founded in 1989, and Kalshi was founded in 2018 and is a regulated exchange for events. Kalshi introduced art prediction markets in May 2026, so the partnership is an expansion of an existing line rather than a first step.",
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          "markdown": "The first markets under the partnership are live for New York's November marquee auctions, and Art Week in December will be the next major moment for the partnership. The art world is a deliberate choice of territory: it is a market where expertise is concentrated, data is scarce, and outcomes are genuinely uncertain, which is exactly what a prediction market needs. Jeffrey Yin is the chief executive officer of Artnet and Artsy, and the partnership puts his firm's data behind contracts on auction results and art fair sales. The pattern suggests Kalshi's strategy is to take the prediction-market format into every domain where people already argue about outcomes, and to let the volume decide which domains are real markets.",
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      "heading": "Sports shows the scale",
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          "markdown": "Goldman Sachs gives the wider context in its look at sports investing. The global media rights market grew 41% since 2020 to reach $57.8 billion in 2025, and private equity transactions in sports increased from 50 in 2018 to 192 in 2025. Average stadium construction costs have reached $1.7 billion, streaming services now represent approximately 20% of media rights growth, and the NFL began allowing institutional investment in 2024. Investors are increasingly looking at international expansion and European football for growth opportunities, and college football is the second largest commercial sport in the US behind the NFL. Private equity firms are offering lines of credit to large universities to fund sports program growth, which is a sign of how far the financialization of sport has gone.",
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          "markdown": "The Valkyries are the most highly valued WNBA team at $850 million, and permanent stadium facilities are a significant driver of valuation for WNBA teams. Read alongside Kalshi's week, the Goldman picture completes the argument: the tradable universe is expanding in two directions at once. Existing assets like teams and media rights are being bought, levered, and securitized by institutional capital, while new contracts are being invented for things that were never tradable before, like art auction outcomes and the direction of a single stock with no expiry date. The risk in both directions is the same, and Kalshi's own explainer states it: leverage cuts both ways, and a market that lets anyone bet on anything needs a rulebook that keeps up. The volume suggests the demand is already there. The open question is whether the oversight arrives at the same speed.",
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    "Whether Kalshi's perpetuals volume holds after the launch week or fades once novelty wears off.",
    "Whether art prediction markets attract real trading volume or stay a curiosity.",
    "How regulators respond to leveraged perpetuals on stocks sold through a prediction-market exchange.",
    "Whether the growth in sports private equity deals continues if media rights growth slows."
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      "Kalshi's perpetuals volume and margin framework since its November 5 launch",
      "Goldman Sachs on private equity's move into sports investing"
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