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Bankless · Tuesday, September 1, 2026

Kalshi's International Strategy: Partnering with Local Brokers

Kalshi is focusing on international expansion by partnering with local regulators and the largest brokers in each country, similar to how they've integrated with platforms like Robinhood and Coinbase. This strategy aims to embed their prediction markets within existing financial products and unlock new markets.

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We're kind of taking a similar long, long-term approach to our international markets as well. Where we're working with like either the regulators or like the largest brokers in each country. Um... to sort of embed our prediction markets inside their products, similar to how we've been embedding them into Robinhood or Coinbase.
John Wang
And so we've been able to secure deals with like Wealthsimple in Canada or like XP, which is the largest broker in Brazil.
John Wang
Heard on Bankless — “"We Want to Be Bigger Than the CME" | Kalshi's John Wang, published Tuesday, September 1, 2026. Heardvine summarizes and quotes with attribution and timestamps, and links to the original everywhere.
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