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 Moomoo’s Kalshi Bet

June 05, 2026 | VECS News

Moomoo, the commission-free trading platform owned by NASDAQ-listed Futu Holdings, will integrate event contracts from CFTC-regulated prediction market Kalshi, the two companies announced on 14 June 2025. The partnership lets Moomoo’s 24 million users trade yes-or-no outcomes on economic indicators, Federal Reserve interest-rate moves, and political events directly inside the app, sitting those contracts next to equities, ETFs, and cryptocurrencies. Moomoo CEO Leaf Hua Li said the move transforms the platform into a “broad-spectrum investment hub” where customers can express macro views without needing to buy sector-specific stocks or options. Kalshi founder Tarek Mansour described the deal as the most significant distribution of regulated event contracts to retail investors since the product’s inception, adding that Kalshi’s open-order-book architecture will be mirrored inside Moomoo’s interface without any reskinning or derivative packaging. The agreement is subject to final CFTC sign-off on the technical integration but is expected to go live in the third quarter.

Event contracts are all-or-nothing swaps that pay a fixed dollar amount if a defined outcome materialises. On Kalshi, they are structured as futures regulated by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, meaning they carry the same exchange-level oversight as corn or oil derivatives. Moomoo will offer the full catalogue of contracts — from “Will the Fed hike in September?” to “Will U.S. GDP growth exceed 3% this quarter?” — and settle them in US dollars, not crypto tokens. Users authenticate their accounts once; thereafter, Kalshi’s liquidity pool is accessible with the same buying power allocated to stocks and crypto. This eliminates the friction of navigating a separate platform and importing funds. For a retail investor who already watches Bitcoin on Moomoo’s crypto tab, the leap to betting on inflation prints or election results becomes a single swipe.

The marriage of a zero-commission brokerage and a regulated prediction market has immediate consequences for investment instruments, particularly crypto. Polymarket, the dominant on-chain prediction platform built on Polygon, has processed over $3 billion in volume in 2025, almost entirely in USDC, attracting users who enjoy 24/7 settlement and pseudo-anonymity. Moomoo-Kalshi offers the opposite: dollar settlement, strict KYC, CFTC oversight, and fixed trading hours aligned with US markets. Some crypto-native capital that flowed into Polymarket as a novelty may now divert to a regulated environment where funds sit inside brokerage accounts insured by SIPC. At the same time, the two models could expand the total addressable market for outcome-based instruments, making prediction contracts a recognised asset class and, paradoxically, boosting interest in their crypto-native cousins. Analysts expect a short-term flow rotation but a long-term lift for the entire event-contract ecosystem, including tokenised alternatives.

Alex Thorn, Head of Firmwide Research at Galaxy Digital, noted that the collaboration places prediction markets inside the same menu as spot Bitcoin ETFs, accelerating the blur between traditional speculation and pure crypto gambling. “When a user can move a dollar from COIN stock, to a Bitcoin ETF, to a Kalshi contract on the next CPI print, the wall between ‘investment’ and ‘prediction’ disappears. The real question is whether crypto prediction platforms respond by chasing their own regulatory licences or by leaning further into decentralisation. Either way, the pie gets bigger, and institutional capital that was wary of Polymarket may flow into a Moomoo-Kalshi wrapper and later experiment with on-chain alternatives.”

Kaiko Research Director Clara Medalie focused on liquidity effects. “If Moomoo’s order flow migrates even a fraction of its daily volume into event contracts, the impact on stablecoin liquidity could be measurable. Polymarket’s ecosystem depends on USDC; a shift toward fiat-settled contracts may drain some on-chain liquidity, but it also validates the prediction-market model in front of regulators,” she said. Medalie pointed out that crypto exchanges listing stablecoins could actually benefit if the broader acceptance of event contracts persuades more people to hold USDC for swift transfers to and from platforms like Moomoo. She believes the net effect on the stablecoin market cap will be neutral-to-positive over 12 months as crossover users increase.

Peter Van Valkenburgh, Director of Research at crypto policy non-profit Coin Center, emphasised the regulatory irony. “Kalshi is regulated by the CFTC, which has historically taken a far lighter touch to novel derivative products than the SEC has taken to crypto tokens. By embedding event contracts inside a brokerage, Moomoo may indirectly push the SEC to articulate why a Bitcoin ETF is allowed but a prediction token isn’t. This could either force a more coherent cross-agency framework or widen the regulatory gap that crypto prediction markets exploit. Either path is investable because it clarifies the rules.” Van Valkenburgh stressed that the partnership’s success will depend on whether retail users truly understand that CFTC regulation does not mean risk-free trading — an educational burden Moomoo has pledged to address with in-app tutorials.

The Moomoo-Kalshi integration is more than a product update; it tests whether prediction markets can graduate from niche crypto darlings to standard features of every brokerage app. For the crypto investment universe, the partnership introduces a regulated competitor that could siphon short-term speculative flows, yet simultaneously legitimise an asset class that blockchain platforms pioneered. If Moomoo users embrace event contracts in the same way they embraced fractional shares and crypto, the line separating Wall Street, crypto exchanges, and betting markets will dissolve almost entirely. Markets are now watching to see how Polymarket, and the stablecoin issuers that fuel it, respond to a rival that brings regulatory armour and a 24-million-strong brokerage army.